Alan Wake’s emergence from darkness to cult status
“Oh, God. You’re killing me,” Remedy Entertainment’s Oskari Hakkinen groaned when I pressed him for details on PC plans for Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. “I’ve got nothing to announce at this point,” he moans softly into his headset. After a moment of silence I burst into laughter and he quickly joins me.
As Head of Franchise Development, Oskari — or Ozz, as he asks people to call him — he’d certainly know Remedy’s plan for Alan Wake’s XBLA title coming to PC. But American Nightmare wasn’t the basis for my call to the Finnish developer. It was Alan Wake’s original tale I wanted to discuss, a game many skimmed past due to what many in the industry infuriatingly refer to as an “embarrassment of riches.”
On the same day Alan Wake’s long development process met its ultimate ship goal, it was greeted by a host of quality competition. The adrenaline-fueled Split/Second landed on shelves. The Prince of Persia returned to his roots in The Forgotten Sands.
Red Dead Redemption happened.
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