These graphics are fantastic. I can't wait to see footage of daytime gameplay to find out if it really looks this good on the X360.

Alan Wake cant waite for this game

In a gaming landscape where most titles look impressive these days, it's getting trickier and trickier to impress cynics like us. However, Remedy has really done some amazing things with the proprietary technology in its engine.

You can see the hallmarks of quality design all throughout Alan Wake's world beginning with Alan and the other main characters themselves. The facial animation, lip-synching, and the combination of careful key-frame animation and motion-capture, combine to create some stunning sequences in the game. During moments of action, watching Alan, who's no action hero, stumble slightly as he lunges out of the way of a flock of demonic birds, looks wholly convincing; other, less overt things like dialogue exchanges between Alan and Barry show subtlety.

As we mentioned above, light and dark play critical roles in the experience. The engine handles all kinds of effects with panache. Every major object in the environment, including Alan and his clothing, is self-shadowing – meaning that light sources in the game cast massive and frightening shadows over surfaces all over the place. It's real horror-show stuff; the kind of detail that really builds atmosphere.

On a grander level, there's a key moment in the game where a certain building suddenly gets torn very violently apart – and you will be floored by the dynamic damage, impressive physics and brilliant smoke and particle effects at play.







This says it all. Also IGN confirm here best effects they have ever seen.

All i can say is "Wow". The graphics look amazing. Getting this day one.

Alan Wake will be awesome.

This game is more than a game with nice graphics. The story is something new - and the way it is brought to you, too.

It is a good thing that IGN is excited for this game. I really hope this game gets the attention it deserves. MS should advertise this well. Do you think Alan Wake has a chance to outsell Resident Evil 5 on the Xbox360? RE5 is like 2.2 million right now. I would love to see something like this happen, but this is too much for a new IP.

It will be very hard to outsell RE5 on the X360 if you mean RE5's final lifetime number which will be around 3 million, but I am very sure Alan Wake will pass the 2.2 million copies RE5 has right now. 

The genres are different, but Mass Effect (2.1 mill) and Bioshock (2.2 mill) were also new IP.