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Alan Wake American Nightmare review up at IGN.

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Closing Comments

Alan Wake's American Nightmare is an extremely impressive experiment, created with the aim of releasing an essentially fully-fledged retail game through Xbox LIVE Arcade. American Nightmare absolutely succeeds in this regard, with action-packed gameplay, a cool theme, and an exciting Arcade Action mode. However, as a follow-up to the awesome original game, the story comes up short and the whole experience lacks suspense and thrills.


IGN Ratings for Alan Wake's American Nightmare (X360).


8.0
Presentation
The cheesy pulp feel of the story adds an interesting element, but the plot feels muddled and hard to follow.



8.5
Graphics
The game looks as good as the first game, and very impressive for an Xbox LIVE Arcade game. There are a few small bugs here and there, but overall it's a fine looking game.



8.5
Sound
The game's sound effects and ambient noise do an excellent job of setting the stage and helping create some atmosphere, but the written dialogue is a little ham-fisted.



7.5
Gameplay
The game's heavy on the action elements, and the controls handle themselves admirably and make for a fun action experience. The story mode is a bit too repetitious, unfortunately.


8.0
Lasting Appeal
The story mode will take you about 4 to 5 hours, depending on if you hunt down all of the manuscript pages, while Arcade Action will keep you busy for a bit.




8.0

OVERALL
Great

I think I'll wait for a Live sale.

Based on what? The lowly 8? The average "Great" rating?

This and ME3 are what are getting me to exercise my gaming muscles again. $15 is a bargain.

Retweeted.

Fifteen bucks for a game that has the length of COD is a bargain. I really liked the original and bought all the DLC. Looking forward to this and I will be getting it on day one.

Me too!

Still, some part of me feels I should at least try to play the DLC at least once before I buy this game at full price.

I couldn't remember the order of the Block Party releases, so I hadn't realized that this is out this week. More Alan Wake is a great thing in my book - day one purchase for me!

Based on this "The story mode is a bit too repetitious, unfortunately."... fuck, didn't realize I needed to justify my purchases to you.

XBLAFans.com review

What we liked:

Fight with Light
For the horde
Live and in the flesh
Graphics

What we didn't like:

Been there, done that
Lack of challenge
Atmosphere takes a back seat

Score: Buy it!

Joystiq's review

Kotaku gives it a YES.

Interesting since IGN said that this game is only a slight bit shorter than the disc game. In either way, the Joystiq review has convinced me that I need to finish the AW DLC prior to playing this.

Played through the first section and got about 25% of the manuscript pages in about an hour. Seems like it'll be a very short game, 5 hours tops.

Been having fun with it, controls are a little loose for my taste, so I actually had to take the sensitivity down a few notches. Some cool new weapons and ammo seems to be of no concern, though that may change in the later portions of the game. Nail gun and SMG are neat, but I couldn't quite open the Magnum box I found

Everyone hoping that Barry will be in this game can rest easy as he's literally the first person the story mode shows Also, Alan has clearly been working on his cardio (at least in a non-fighting situation) as you can run for about a quarter mile before getting winded now.

Yeah, its supposed to be a 5-6 hour game.

I thought the conrols were a little loose too - need to tweak. And F-That magnum box. I almost can open it now, might backtrack to get it.

And yeah, his cardio is much improved.

I forgot to mention this last night, but I really don't care for the flashlight not working in an idle state - meaning, you have to focus it to affect the Taken at all. I'm 99% sure it wasn't like that in the original game. But I do like how the beam does a better job of fading out with the battery charge now. That's pretty cool.

I only played through the second area tonight and, judging from my manuscript checklist, it looks like I'm closer to 33% done instead of 67% like I thought. It's looking like you go back through the areas a second time. Hopefully it gets harder because it's been a cakewalk so far with no real threat and near-infinite ammo.

One of the Destructoid reviewers mentioned that you actually go through each area 3 times. Not sure how accurate that is, but her major complaint was the repetitiveness in both the arcade and the story modes.

God I love the full-motion video in this game. Both the psychotic tv videos with Mr. S%*#!ch and the cutscenes. They take me back to the promise of what CD-ROMs were supposed to bring us. That and they're just really well done. I really believe that dude is the character I'm playing and not just a stop-motion capture actor. I mean, it's not quite Serkis as Gollum and Smeagol, but it's good.

Also the minor -esque twist there was a nice surprise. I'm definitely interested to see where it goes now.

The guy that does the voice of the radio interviewer, Larry Kenney, is the father of Kerri Kenney (from The State, Reno 911!, and everything else). Also he was the voice of Lion-O in the original Thundercats cartoon.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare - Super Effective Sales Trailer

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wrapped up my Alan Wake Experience [Main Game, 2 DLC and this]

What AW2 could had been... Loved the new Weapons [UZI!] and improved graphics. Mr. Scratch is one crazy fucker. Nice touching wrap up at the end.

Got all [100%] Achievements last night. Unlocking all Nightmare levels in Arcade wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and actually had fun with it.


can't wait for QUANTUM BREAK!

Alan Wake 2 was cancelled?

Alan Wake 2 was never announced.

Here's a Look at the Alan Wake 2 That Never Was

full article http://www.xboxachievements.com/news...Never-Was.html

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