Alan Wake Remastered Review (PlayStation 5)
Our Alan Wake Remastered Review has us playing as troubled author Alan Wake who is on a desperate search for his missing wife. A horror story he has supposedly written is coming true, and his grip on reality is threatened as he confronts a hostile presence. The tense, episodic story is packed with twists, cliffhangers, and intense combat, where it takes more than bullets to banish the darkness.
Alan Wake Remastered Review Pros:
- Gorgeous graphics.
- Download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- You get both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
- Graphics – Hud, brightness slider, motion blur, and film grain.
- 3 difficulties – Easy, normal, and nightmare.
- Adventure gameplay.
- Chapter select.
- Can Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
- Video commentary – on/off.
- Subtitles (optional) have font size and background opacity sliders.
- Controller settings – trigger effects, swap the sticks around, and swap shoulder buttons around.
- Full stats showing everything from kills with each weapon to bird kills, signs found, and how many video games were found.
- Opening tutorial pop-ups as it sets the story up.
- You can skip cutscenes.
- Excellent voice work.
- Has a Twin Peaks meets Stephen King vibe to it all.
- Dodge attacks and perfectly timed ones will trigger a cinematic slowdown.
- Light and dark mechanic whereby the darkness takes over people and can only be stopped by light and gunfire.
- Tap reload to reload weapons faster.
- Tense jump scare-laden experience.
- Full camera control.
- Management of torch batteries and gun ammo.
- Seamless integration between gameplay and cutscenes.
Alan Wake Remastered Review Cons:
- Cannot rebind controls.
- Takes a bit of getting used to the whole light to eradicate the visible darkness then shoot.
- Cutscenes still look different from the actual gameplay.
- Robotic animations in places.
- Does feel clunky in its movement and animations.
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Alan Wake Remastered:
Developer: Remedy
Publisher: Remedy
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