Alan Wake is a video game developed by Remedy Entertainment, the Finnish studio responsible for the Max Payne series, and published by Microsoft exclusively for its own Xbox 360 home console, released on May 14, 2010, in Europe, and May 18, in North America, as an all-new experience that combines classic survival horror gameplay and elements from psychological thrillers.
Alan Wake is paced like a TV show, in which the main character, Alan Wake, a writer who arrives in a small American mountain town looking for inspiration, uncovers unusual paranormal activities that give birth to shadow monsters, called Taken, and other such creatures, which can be eliminated only by shining light into their bodies or by deploying fires and other light emanating sources.
ACHIEVEMENTS Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.
- Tornado Wrangler (20 points): Defeat the tornado.
- Departure (40 points): Complete the game on Normal difficulty.
- Hardboiled Writer (40 points): Complete the game on Hard difficulty.
- Alan, Wake Up (50 points): Complete the game on Nightmare difficulty.
- If It Flies, It Burns (20 points): Burn 1,000 birds.
- They're Heeeeeere! (20 points): Inanimate objects shouldn't move of their own accord. Put a stop to this affront, oh, say, 20 times.
- The Six-Gun Scribe (20 points): Defeat 100 Taken with the revolver.
- Taken Season (20 points): Defeat 50 Taken with the hunting rifle.
- It's Not Just a Typewriter Brand (20 points): Defeat 50 Taken with a shotgun.
- What Light Through Yonder Window (20 points): Defeat 50 Taken with the flaregun, the way Shakespeare intended.
- Thunder and Lightning (20 points): Defeat 50 Taken with flashbang grenades.
- Collateral Carnage (20 points): Defeat 20 Taken with indirect means.
- Come One, Come All (10 points): Kill four Taken with a single shot from the flaregun.
- Sound and Fury (10 points): Kill four Taken with a single flashbang.