

When you find a thermos, you can save your game or, in phases of the story later than where this demo takes place, switch between playing as Saga or Alan. But first, it's time to take a coffee break.

By shining her flashlight on a spot in the tree that's shrouded by darkness, she's able to dispel the darkness covering up her next clue and learn that she needs to go to a witch's hut.Īfter illuminating the house by replacing the fuse, she learns that she must go to the convenience store to retrieve a tattooed heart. Saga is looking into the Cult of the Tree, so naturally, she investigates a tree deep in the woods. The two make their way through a beautiful forest, but it won't be a pleasant stroll for long. My demo follows Saga as she follows the trail of a killer alongside her partner Casey.

His story centers on Saga Anderson, an FBI agent investigating a string of murders in the Pacific Northwest. While there, Alan attempts to rewrite his reality and escape this alternate dimension. Alan Wake II utilizes a dual-protagonist system, introducing Saga Anderson. Alan Wake has been trapped in the Dark Place, a nightmarish version of New York City, ever since the events of the first game. The game universe has progressed in real-time, taking place 13 years after the 2010 first entry. We took those design ideas and we created Control." It's not this concept it was different, and we felt that it doesn't quite feel like Alan Wake, but maybe cool ideas on this kind of almost superhero action and is more kind of a nonlinear game. And we were trying to do Alan Wake 2 before we went and created Control. "We got the publishing rights of the original game back, so we were in a position to create a remastered version for the PlayStation audience as well as a wider audience. "We've been trying and now finally everything just clicked into place," co-director Sam Lake says. The road to Alan Wake 2 was full of speed bumps involving publishing rights and finding the right ideas, hence the 13-year gap. During Summer Game Fest 2023, I had a chance to get a behind-closed-doors look at Alan Wake, the highly anticipated sequel 13 years in the making.
