Alan Wake Remastered Officially Announced, Coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC Platforms This Fall

Remasters of games like Tomb Raider and Hitman have been all the rage in recent years, and now Alan Wake has joined the ranks. The game was released on PC back in 2010, but this remaster will bring it to modern consoles for the first time.

Alan Wake Remastered was announced today, coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platforms this fall.

Image courtesy of Remedy Entertainment

Following a leak from last week, Remedy Entertainment has officially announced that its cult classic action-adventure thriller Alan Wake, from 2010, will be restored.

This autumn, Alan Wake Remastered will be released on the Epic Games Store for the PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4/Pro, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox One X. (Yes, it seems to be a PC-exclusive Epic Games Store title.)

Remedy creative director Sam Lake, who created the narrative and script for Alan Wake and has contributed significantly to all of the studio’s titles, revealed Alan Wake Remastered in a letter. Lake discussed how much the game meant to him and how the remaster was only possible because of fan support.

This is intended for you. Alan Wake was released almost 11 years ago, and you’ve often shown your admiration for the game, the narrative, the characters, and the mythology. And it is very important to us. This is a game that we like as well. This game is one of my favorites. Because of your continued support for Alan Wake, a remaster is on the way. That is why we thought it would be appropriate to make this news here, at The Sudden Stop, which has been a vital component of the Remedy community since its inception as an Alan Wake fansite in 2012. Without The Sudden Stop, the Remedy community would not be what it is now, and we wanted to express our appreciation by informing you about Alan Wake Remastered right here. Thank you, Rachel, and everyone else, for your continued support of Remedy and our games throughout the years.

Being a writer himself, Lake goes on to say how personal the Alan Wake character and narrative are to him. After his wife goes missing in the tiny, fictitious town of Bright Walls, Washington, Wake, a best-selling thriller writer, is forced to battle evil creatures known as The Taken. The Taken are mostly attacked with flashlights, which are intended to weaken them and expose them to conventional weapons like handguns and shotguns.

In many respects, this tale and character were personal to me. Because Alan Wake is a writer, he offered me the chance to include what I do and love as a writer into the narrative. Alan Wake also included the enigma of woods and lakes, both of which are treasured by me as a Finn. Rather of being a concentrated one-note horror film, it was a weird, even wasted combination of terror, comedy, and mysterious mystery. I also like it since it turned out to be a really difficult game to create, with many setbacks along the road, which makes me even more pleased of what we accomplished.

Lake didn’t say much about how Alan Wake Remastered’s graphics have been enhanced, but he did say that there are some “choice next-generation improvements,” including better “visuals all around, including the character model of Alan Wake himself, and the cinematics.”

Alan Wake is the source.

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