Alan Wake's American Nightmare

I quite enjoyed the first Alan wake. Haven’t played the second one yet, would like to. Too bad that this is basically the less interesting follow-up to the deeply compelling original but this does have a lot going for it. As absurd as the following is going to sound to anyone who hasn't already played this, I'm going to try to describe the core concept. Alan has an evil twin who is a serial killer and who keeps appearing in disturbing videos that feel like they make up the dictionary definition of this sort of thing. There's definitely some Hannibal lecter going on. Alan of course has to stop him and in doing so it is going to be necessary to go through a time loop multiple times. Got all that I've seen some criticism that this does indeed mean that we play through the same basic areas multiple times. I said the following for The Room as well, the fourth Silent Hill game what people are saying here is technically accurate but I believe they are missing why this decision was made. It literally does play differently. You find yourself worrying that you can't stop what is happening because you keep trying, you keep doing more or less the same thing and you're unable to progress even though the game is technically communicating to you that what you've done was what it required of you in order to proceed. I do think that this needed to do more to really justify itself as a separate release rather than free DLC. It's too short if you only play the campaign and while the arcade mode is quite enjoyable it's not quite enough. The gunplay remains very similar to the original and doesn't really make sense with the various changes and style. I do like some of the new guns. Honestly I got much more out of playing the two actual DLC for the first game even though those are also not really important to play. What they did with some of the characters was quite engaging, especially Barry and I actually think that's where the possessed humans taunting Alan made the most sense.

Just a great game. Nuff said.

Short, different from the original, more action-oriented. Overall, a good game.

The story mode is very short, but it works as a folloup to the original Alan Wake. It expands a little on the world and some character's fate after the fist game. Main "story vehicle" may feel a little overplayed now, but I think it works very well in here. Oh, and it's definitely worth looking for all the pages and to watch all TVs. The gameplay is a little simplistic and easier than in the first game, at least on normal, but I played for the story so I didn't mind. The game should be darker. As it is now, if feels too bright in compare to first Alan Wake so you don't have the same "dread" when in fights compared to the first Alan Wake.

nice shooter and great graphics and gameplay and gunplay and story, worth playing many times.