Official Alan Wake Review Thread (Metacritic)

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selnor said:

CGI-Quality said:

selnor said:
Wow this thread is a shitstorm. The game will be very much like Heavy Rain. You'll either love it's style or you wont. There is basically 2 different types of reviews for this game. Some say it's the best horror scare game ever. Others complain it's to linear.

At the end of the day. Who cares.

The best Horror games before it were linear to hell. If you play the genre you know what I mean.

Resi 1 - 5, Alone In The Dark, Silent Hill.

For the ganme to give it's hair on back syndrome you have to craft it for the player.

I for one am gonna love it.

BTW Alan Wake is 85 meta now.

I must disagree about SILENT HILL. They've always been quite open for exploration.

Yeah I kinda agree. But take Silent Hill 2 for example. Although it was openish, it still was on rails. I felt that the game had pointless areas. The only thing that baffles me, is playing Resi 4 for example, the gameplay wasnt all that. The shooting was frustrating and it didnt have much variety. But it was the story and atmosphere that was the whole point of the game.

Alan Wake is just like that by the sounds of it. Alone In The Dark was also immensly enjoyable for me. The gameplay was ok, but the atmosphere and story was pretty good. It's my fave horror/thriller game this gen, and scored low on reviews. Yet a game like Resi 5 which is the worst Resi IMO, scored much better.

Ninja Blade is another game in a different genre again that scored low. Yet I enjoyed both it's gameplay and action much more than DMC4 for example. Sometimes it's really hard to see what Reviewers determine as a good game.

It seems that TPS's this gen are the games which generally score very high regardless. GeoW, Uncharted even Dead Space and Mass Effect has elements of TPS which IMO added to the game being accepted more. FPS also are excepted in the West very well.

Look at JRPG's this gen. JRPG lovers will tell you they love games like Lost Odyssey or FF13. But take Demons Soul. It reviewed really well. But is less of a JRPG than any other JRPG this gen.

A very strange generation. There is games in my collection I would put far above GTA4 for example yet reviewers seem hooked on not accepting them.

THANK YOU!

This is exactly what I said in a previous post responding to people saying the gameplay is so simple and could never live up to something like RE4.

Also in regards to your review comment, this is why we cannot just look at review scores: We have to read the damn reviews so we can avoid falling into the stupid-trap that is the Eurogamer review.