something tells me you didnt buy the game

"enjoy alan wake in blurry 540p resolution you loser."

-_- yeah very nice of you to send that to me

the OP was talking about reviews

Great game. Beautiful, well written and spooky as hell. Just what I was hoping for really. Sorry you hate it and M$ and the 360 and it's fans so much. Nightmare difficulty is going to be an absolute bitch I suspect.

RDR in 20 hours? I'm at 37% and 18h. Some people just don't 'get' wrpgs. What's the rush?

The critics just love R* don't they? I'm finally starting to see why. This is much more fun than GTAIV imo and not as overrated. I'd put it around 92-3 tied with ME2 which lacked some of the rpg elements I love. Wake would be down at 87 with Fable 2 on my personal scorecard. My opinions are of tremendous importance to me.

To me it is AAA. One of the best games I have played in a while in fact.

LOL. He sent that to you?

If he has played it, he would know that the image quality is imo better than that of say Gears which is native 720p. Remedy have used many techniques to get the most from there engine. It's not all about resolution. Dont let 540p fool anyone. It's so crisp, and looks amazing. Easily best looking 360 game and 360 engine. Cant wait to see what they have already improved.

Remedy say the following:

"We already have a few bigger changes in mind that could free up as much as 30 per cent processing time, but they were too big to do for Alan Wake 1. But it's not all about improving the engine. We also learned what kind of content works and looks the best with the engine we have, and can, from day one, make cooler stuff in the future. Expect the downloadable content to benefit from this already somewhat."

I just wish they would have (gasp) delayed it a bit more to polish it up. I got annoyed when walking up the stairs behind the Dr and he would take 2 steps per stair (with one in mid air). There are also several cut scenes that have body parts going through solid objects.

I haven't noticed any collision problems during normal game play though.

Subjective question is subjective.

I'm 3/4 through. It's AAA, anyone who doesn't play it is really really missing out. I haven't been this pulled into a game for years.

You should listen to CGI.. He might be into chicks that look like dudes, but he isn't a bad person.. ~_n

A demo could have helped Alan Wake, it didn't help splintercell but that was a bad demo. If the Alan Wake demo could make people curious about the story then it would certainly have sold better.

I haven't bought it myself but only because I stand by my X euros = X hours of gameplay standard. Atleast 75% of the X hours has to be from singleplayer aswell. This means I won't get many (if not most) console games until they are half priced and in Alan Wake's case I may have to get it second hand a few years from now.