Take Duke Nukem 3D, make the protagonist as sardonic and cynical as possible but make him a demon. Add head decaption with physics a very inventive set of new weapons that really stands out even now and the classic build engine level design. Chances are this isn't your first build engine FPS so I'll cut to the chase. There are really only two things that bring this game down from classic status but they are massive flaws. 1) Some of the levels flat out suck, awful bland colour scheme, un-imaginative level design, repetitive enemies, etc. 2) Remember having to get 3 motherfucking keycards in Duke? Well double it you have to find 6 keys per level in Blood (baring early levels of course). That is just too many motherfucking keys.
Alan Wake was a game that for better and sometimes for worse tried to deliever a Twin Peaks-esque World. Pitting suspicious characters against the foggy brained protagonist. The original game had it's flaws it's main one being that introduction was the closest it ever came to true horror and the rest went the chainsaw and spooky ghost route. But there was enough of the Remedy charm, sardonic self awareness and very polished gunplay to make you largely forget this. The charm of the original is sadly gone in American Nightmare. The story is terrible and doesn't seem to know it, the new characters may as well be non-existant and what you have is a few 'new' locations that you'll quickly forget and some extra weapons. This is a glorified combat DLC one that would have been welcomed had it come out around the same time as the original game and had not tried to sell itself as anything more than such. If by some chance the only thing you enjoyed of Alan Wake was the gunplay, and didn't care for the story, sounds, characters, locations or anything else for that matter then pick this up otherwise you will be sorely disappointed
