Alan Wake 2 Everything To Know

it's almost time to return to brightfalls the fictional small town set in Washington state for more spooky adventures in Alan Wake 2 but so much has happened since the first Allan Wake including the Revelation that the games are actually a part of a remedy connected Universe unveiled in remedy's 2019 game control from story to gam playay and release date his everything you need to know about Allan Wake 2 Alan Wake is a crime fiction writer that comes to the remote Pacific Northwest town of bright Falls to get away from the big city for a Time immediately hits the fan when a dark presence drags Alan's wife Alice beneath the depths of cauldron Lake where Alan and Alice were renting a cabin the town also becomes infested with shadowy figures the same that plague Allen's dreams and which require light to be taken down these Shadows are called taken and are the town's folk possessed by the same force that kidnapped Alice these events all seem to be the manifestations of one of Allan's manuscripts which Allan has no recollection of ever writing and is given pages of in his Dreams by an ethereal figure in a diving suit as Allan begins to question his reality it being brought to his attention that the cabin he was renting with his wife was destroyed decades prior things get even worse as the towns folk begin to suspect Allan of having something to do with his wife's disappear appearance with even the FBI showing up to investigate the FBI team is led by agent Nightingale a right bastard who assumes Allan's guilt from the jump ultimately Allan learns that this dark presence is working through the town's local psychiatrist Dr Emil Hartman that Praise on artistic types such as Allan as through their art it's able to grow itself stronger Allan learns that the entity in the diving suit is Thomas Zayn the ghostlike figure of a poet who found himself in a similar situation to Alan de decades prior also having lost his lover to the dark presence the vestage of which the dark presence is manifesting as Zayn gives Allan a magical light switch with which to destroy the dark presence and save Alice Allan succeeds in doing so but comes to the realization that he must surrender to the dark presence and remain in its Dimension the dark place in order to fully save Alice's life the first game ends with Allan trapped in the alternate Dimension and an evil doppelganger dubbed Mr scratch having taken his place in the real world the game's DLCs show some of Allen's time in the dark place and how he is slowly but surely growing stronger and developing powers that allow him to manipulate the realm the spin-off American Nightmare pits Allan against Mr scratch who has gone on a murder spree in the real world solving a Time Loop in the dark place Allan uncovers the tools necessary to defeat Mr scratch and wins although the events of American Nightmare while Cannon are called into question as potentially the torure tortured nightmares of Allan as he exists in the dark place popular fan Theory being that Mr scratch is still alive which from what we've seen of the sequel so far has all but confirmed at this point nearly a decade after the release of the first game remedy's latest title control has several Easter eggs that refer to the occurrences of Alan Wake as an altered world event which in that newest game are supernal events that occur in our world thanks to interdimensional Shenanigans remedy has since confirmed that Allan Wake and control are both a part of a shared universe that connection explored more in depth in control's awe DLC which stands for altered world event but could also double as Alan Wake expansion after being consumed by the dark presence Dr Hartman has been imprisoned by the federal bureau of control the government entity in charge of cleaning up altered world events however he is broken free during the outbreak of alternate dimensional creatures known as the hiss that the game control is centered around control prote an Agonist Jesse feden in the awe DLC must face off against Dr Hartman who was not only possessed by the dark presence but also the hiss now Alan Wake 2 looks to dive back into the Haunted World of brightfalls rather than merely dipping its toe said 13 years after the first game Allan has been trapped in the dark place all those years while in the real world the FBI agent from the first game n Gale turned into a taken and seemingly committed a series of crimes that brings another FBI agent Saga and into investigate while fans of the alen wig series have had tastes of the franchise here and there over the years plans for a fully-fledged sequel have been in the works for a long time with discussions at remedy for alen wiek 2 beginning soon after the completion of the first game remedy came up with a prototype that it chopped around to various Publishers including Microsoft while Microsoft was interested in the reality bending powers featured in the Prototype as well as the inclusion of liveaction elements they wanted remedy to work on a new IP rather than an allen wake sequel that also pushed the game's live action even further likely due to the fact that at the time Xbox was trying to Kickstart an entertainment division that included a Halo TV series helmed by Steven Spielberg and a Titanfall show the latter never coming to fruition and the former finding a home with Paramount without the involvement of Steven Spielberg remedy's project eventually became the box One exclusive Quantum break which starred sha Ashmore who will return to play a new character Tim breaker in Alan Wake 2 remedy tried to work on Alan Wink 2 after the release of quantum break but due to a lack of in the words of remedy's director of communications Thomas Pusher time money and resources the sequel was once again shelved in favor of a new IP Control however the developers still wanted to make in Allan Wake sequel work and continued to brainstorm ideas for what it could be giving it the code name project bigfish to indicate its significance it was in these brainstorms that the idea for the remedy connected Universe which remedy seemed Keen to try earlier with Quantum break returned to the team's plans unlike Quantum break remedy owns the control IP allowing the studio to use control as a way to introduce Alan Wake to the world via a Marvel likee connected story Alan wiek 2 is using Red's own Northlight engine that was used to create Quantum break and control and will be a survival horror game rather than an action game with some horror leanings the most notable feature of Allen wake 2 is its dual protagonists players will get to play as both FBI agent Saga Anderson in the real world and Allan Wake in the dark place while the opening Mission and closing Mission involve playing a saga and Allen respectively the order in which the levels in between those two missions are tackled is up to the player and in order to see everything players will need to play all sequences from both sides spanning multiple playthroughs like in the first game enemies will need to be weakened by a flashlight before being finished off with a gunshot however battery power and ammunition are going to be a lot more scarce this time around and encounters will be more methodical and punishing resulting in remedy's first survival horror experience Saga has her own realm to explore called The Mind place this isn't an actual other dimension but a representation of her thoughts as she pieces the puzzle of the mystery together in this mind Place Saga can profile characters and features an Evidence board where players can actually Place pieces of evidence and connect them together with red string successfully connecting the right evidence will lead to Saga having a revelation which will further the story similarly Allan has a storyboard he can use to alter reality as he seeks an escape route from the dark place manuscript pages will also be returning in Allen week 2 which will foreshadow upcoming events but new to the game is dialogue options when interacting with other the characters alen wake 2 releases for PS5 Xbox series X and S for $60 and PC via the epic game store for $50 on October 27th you will not be able to walk into a brick and M to store for a physical addition as remedy is launching the game as a digital exclusive pre-ordering the game will include a skin for Allen's handgun and a survival resources pack for Saga to use pre-ordering the game on the epic game store will also net you the upcoming Allen wake character skin and accessories to use in fortnite the deluxe edition of the game increases the cost by $20 but includes a wider array of Cosmetics such as different outfits and gun skins for Saga and Allan and that's everything to know about Allen WG 2 before launch for more coverage on the game including our eventual review continue to haunt [Music] GameSpot

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Published: Mon Oct 23 2023