14 DAY TRIAL // Alan Wake is one of the gaming industry's largest mysteries, as it has been in development for quite some time at the studio responsible for the critically acclaimed Max Payne saga, Remedy Entertainment.
Now though, for the last half a year, things have been starting to clear up regarding the mystery title, as we received quite a lot of details about the unconventional gameplay and about the fact that it would appear exclusively for the Xbox 360, as it would be published by Microsoft Game Studios.
Dated for 2010, the game is subject to a lot of talks among executives from Remedy, and now the co-founder and development director of the studio, Markus Maki, reveals that, even though the creation process took longer than expected, everything is going great.
“I don’t think any developer plans on working on a single game for this long, but for the last 1-1.5 years we’ve hit our own milestone targets very well and thus were confident on announcing the Spring 2010 release,” Maki says, also stating that plans for a playable demo are still in the air, as a conclusion hasn't been reached together with Microsoft.
Maki also tackles the fact that the game is heading only to the Xbox 360, and that a PC version may or may not appear in the future. “Alan Wake as game design and our technology has from the start been primarily targeted towards consoles. We knew most of the gamers would play our game on the consoles and wanted to ensure they got a really good experience - we learned that lesson when doing the Max Payne 1 & 2 games. Definitely, the game looks and runs excellent on the Xbox360. We’ve always used the same assets when working with both platforms and there have been no design changes based on this. The console is hassle free and smooth experience.”
As people waited many years to find out some more details about this game, it seems that we will be in for a great experience and that this long wait has been worth it. Look forward to the innovative game in spring next year.