While the American Nightmare follow-up showed Alan writing his escape back to the real world and destroying an evil doppelganger, it’s heavily implied that the standalone game took place in his imagination while he’s still trapped in the Dark Place. At the end of Alan Wake, Alan banished himself and the Dark Presence that was threatening the town of Bright Falls into the Dark Place, a shadowy otherworld beneath the town where reality can literally be rewritten. Alan’s current situation is a little fuzzy. What can we expect from Alan Wake 2’s story? Probably with a different pace, though.Īnd, given what I know about the survival horror genre, I’d start mentally preparing to scrounge around for batteries if I were you.

Since Alan’s holding what looks like a homemade flashlight in the reveal trailer, we can safely hope to see something similar in the sequel. If you’re aware of Alan Wake at all, you’re probably aware of its flashlight combat mechanic, where light could dispel the Dark Presence that possessed Alan’s enemies and leave them vulnerable to gunfire. Here, those horror elements will be center-stage: the genre shift will hopefully let Remedy better explore what they’re calling a “layered, psychological story.”īeyond that, we can only speculate about what the gameplay will involve. While the first Alan Wake and its downloadable follow-up, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, had their share of horror elements, they were action games at the end of the day. There aren’t any announced specifics, but we do know that Alan Wake 2 is being designed as Remedy’s first survival horror game.

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