Alan Wake

Alan Wake is an action-adventure video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and initially released for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The remaster of the game titled Alan Wake Remastered, was developed by D3T and published by Epic Games Publishing for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

Plot
The plot follows the titular protagonist, a thriller novelist with writer's block who tries to find his missing wife in a remote town, only to find himself following horrifying events from his latest novel that he doesn't remember writing.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Good graphics for its time, with realistic character detail and gorgeous scenery.
 * 2) Great premise, and a well-written story throughout with plenty of twists. It's often unknown which parts are real, or just delusions.
 * 3) In order to defeat enemies, you need to expose them to light for long enough to disable their immunity and then kill them before it recharges.
 * 4) Despite having little violence, due to its T rating, the atmosphere manages to be sufficiently disturbing and scary, which is quite an achievement.
 * 5) Though it was changed from an open-world to a more linear game, the environments are reasonably fun to explore nonetheless, with a lot of secret areas.
 * 6) You can reload ammunition faster by clicking the same button.
 * 7) The story is separated into episodes similar to The Walking Dead series, only with vastly different gameplay.
 * 8) Plenty of different weapons to use, like a flare gun, which instantly kills enemies, but has limited ammo.
 * 9) Plenty of collectibles in the world, such as coffee thermoses and pages from the manuscript of the book, which can predict events of the game out of chronological order.
 * 10) Fantastic audio design, with gunshots being loud and impactful, sounding very much like real gunshots.
 * 11) You can turn on TV's or radios to get a better insight into the world with stories that are relevant to what's happened, such as a talk show host accidentally revealing Alan's arrival in town. TVs also sometimes broadcast a Twilight Zone-styled tv show.
 * 12) Alan narrates the events of the story with pretty good insight and giving reasons why he can't pick the "easy" solution.
 * 13) Likeable characters, like Alan and his wife, Alice, who are a very loving couple.
 * 14) Good voice acting, especially from Matthew Porretta as Alan Wake.
 * 15) Awesome and disturbing soundtrack.
 * 16) There are also enemies like possessed ravens and moving objects.
 * 17) A couple of DLC episodes that add to the story.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) You have to grind up weapons, batteries, and ammo. Since most of the time, you might end up losing them after a cutscene.
 * 2) Product placement such as: Verizon, Energizer, Lincoln, and Ford. All of this was removed in the remaster.
 * 3) Cutscenes do not match in-game graphic, making them look like they belong on a PS2 game.
 * 4) * As for the cutscenes, some of the facial expressions the characters make come off as awkward and strange. In which the remaster later fixed.
 * 5) Main character animations aren't that great and looked like they belong on the sixth-generation.
 * 6) Linear level design, made to help with the pacing of the game, though it was originally planned to be open-world, and it kind of shows.
 * 7) The camera is not really good. Thankfully this is fixed in the PC version.