While Red Dead Redemption was on practically everyone’s consoles this past release week, The Pause Button instead invested in the other heavy-hitter release on Tuesday for the Xbox 360: Alan Wake.
The game's protagonist and namesake, Alan Wake, is a struggling author who is thrown into a nightmare experience in Bright Falls.
Alan Wake is a game created by Remedy Entertainment (Max Payne, Max Payne 2) and revolves around a writer who vacations in the rural town of Bright Falls in order to escape the stress of being unable to write anything for the past two years. The first night in though, Wake’s wife goes missing, the townspeople become “the Taken” (beings that are overcome by darkness and exhibit murderous tendencies), and Wake is thrust right into the middle of a story he doesn’t remember creating. Read the rest of this entry »
