Alan Wake story to continue with episodic DLC
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Episodes to be released on Xbox LIVE after the game's launch.
Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach has revealed that the upcoming release of Alan Wake, described as episodic psychological thriller, will be supplemented with additional episodes made available on Xbox LIVE.
"Imagine the TV show ‘Lost’ as written by Stephen King, and filmed by David Lynch, and you have Alan Wake," said Bach.
"Story driven like a TV series, Alan Wake will be told in episodes, with even more episodes available on Xbox Live after its launch this year."
The game's still without a firm release date, the last we heard being this spring.
User Comments
rbevanx@ Karlius
I don't mind tbh as long as it's not too expensive (both games)
Karlius@ El-Dev
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3177383 where are all the cynics now?
El-Dev
rbevanx@ Karlius
Great game but bloody hard.
Karlius
Anyway Markus and Mika over at Remedy have made some responses to the worries of the DLC.
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Seems they are rather confident.
dudester
But just for clarification this is how both developers describe their games. Doesn't sound immensely different really. But both will play out differently.
Alan Wake is a "psychological action thriller" inspired by Twin Peaks, Lost and also the works of Stephen King
Alan Wake, a bestselling writer, hasn't managed to write anything in over two years. Now his wife, Alice, brings him to the idyllic small town of Bright Falls to recover his creative flow. But when she vanishes without a trace, Wake finds himself trapped in a nightmare. Word by word, his latest work, a thriller he can't even remember writing, is coming true before his eyes. He somehow knows it's his story without any memory of writing it.
Director David Cage has stated that Heavy Rain would be "a very dark film noir thriller with mature themes", without any supernatural elements, and that "the real message [of the game] is about how far you're willing to go to save someone you love."
Karlius
"You say its nothing like heavy rain and thats a quicktime event game but for me the comparison is in that both are very story driven games that hold an appeal away from conventional games in trying to portray emotion into the gaming."
Every game that isn't sports, puzzle or rhythm based should potray a story and be story driven and pull emotion else what the hell are you doing playing them? Fable is story driven, Uncharted is story driven gears of war is story driven. The aforementioned games are worlds apart. They may both be based around a similar dark style but they are most deffinately not comparritive. It's like comparing Night Trap to Resident Evil.
dudester
I hope it is a good game but I don't often get caught up just by previews reviews etc alone as they can often be wrong and I don't enjoy the game as much the reviewer.
You say its nothing like heavy rain and thats a quicktime event game but for me the comparison is in that both are very story driven games that hold an appeal away from conventional games in trying to portray emotion into the gaming.
Karlius
This interview gives some insight:
http://www.interactive.org/features/...myllyrinne.asp
Why on earth will it be 4 hours its just a jibe/troll post.
cousinwalter
pblive
However, that's not to say this game will. It's had enough favourable previews from magazines and websites.
Karlius
pblive
GTA was a standalone game (and Alan Wake may well be, but it's just the way they are selling it at the moment which sounds like it isn't) which you could take or leave the DLC, but it's games where you don't find out the ending without paying extra that get me.
Fair enough if the original is online as well, Sam and Max or Monkey Island episodes for instance or if the retail game is cheaper, but not full price.
However, I could be wrong and it could just be the PR people selling it badly.
Karlius
Any decent game has a DLC plan why has this one got to be criticised for making such a plan? If you want to take a game for an example. Take one of Remedy's past titles and then take those as an idea of length. You had no idea of the DLC offerings that would bestow the 360 for GTA4. They are however immense and as PB stated almost full games! Of course then you had the fan boys stating that it would be crap and pointless.
The only reason I suggested the MS slant is because there has been little criticism of any game that had a DLC plan previously so there must be some alternative notion. Just seems like people are picking holes.
dudester@ Karlius
This a new ip and bit of an unknown not sure what difference being ms exclusive makes?