14 DAY TRIAL // The second downloadable-content pack for Alan Wake, entitled The Writer, has been revealed through the in-game menu. It is listed as coming soon and is set to cost 800 Microsoft Points, which is about ten dollars. It is not known as of yet if this listing is a glitch on Remedy's side, given the fact that the first pack of DLC will not be out for two months.
The description of this second batch of gameplay for Alan Wake says, “Our second downloadable content pack, The Writer, finds Wake in strange circumstances now fully aware of the thing that opposes him, he must survive on increasingly nightmarish situation after another.” No other information is available at this time, but it is expected that Remedy will make an official announcement soon enough.
The Signal, the first DLC for Alan Wake, is to be released on the 27th of July on Xbox Live and will be free for the owners of new copies of the game. Pricing for the people who bought used Alan Wake discs is also not known, but this seems like a strategy similar to Electronic Arts' Project Ten Dollars.
Alan Wake is an atmospheric third-person shooter with survival-horror influences that revolves around a writer whose wife disappears while on vacation in the mountain town of Bright Falls. This happens while his latest horror novel comes alive, a book that he doesn't even remember writing. The monsters he apparently created, the Taken, start attacking him and he must use various light sources and guns to defeat them.
The game draws heavy inspiration from David Lynch's cult classic TV series Twin Peaks. Remedy Entertainment, the title's developer, is a well known studio that worked on the very popular third-person shooter series Max Payne in the past. Both Max Payne games, like this new Xbox 360-exclusive installment, rely on a very eerie atmosphere to draw the players into their world.