Alan Wake 2: Everything we know so far

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Information technology has been 10 years since Alan Wake landed and gave us the most cliffhanger ending yous could imagine, and now a decade later, Alan Wake 2 has found its style out of the night place.

Alan Wake 2 apparently marks Remedy'southward first survival horror game and since the visitor doesn't consider the first game to be 1, that'due south an exciting and terrifying prospect. Nosotros already know quite a few things nigh Alan Wake 2 thanks to the first teaser trailer likewise as how the last game ended and how Control's AWE DLC ties into the series.

Here's everything nosotros know so far about Alan Wake 2, from the release engagement and story to the gameplay and villains that might appear.

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Alan Wake 2 release date

Alan Wake 2 doesn't accept an exact release date, but nosotros do know that it'south going to launch sometime in 2023, which isn't too far away. Well, it may exist for those who've been waiting over a decade, but I simply shell the game recently, so it's a pleasantly short wait (hah).

Alan Wake 2 will be available for the PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC. Cheers to Sam Lake, we know that we're going to become more than information well-nigh Alan Wake 2 in the summer of 2022.

Alan Wake two story

"Monsters wear many faces," is the tagline that Remedy is going with for Alan Wake 2, which gives usa a few ideas about what'southward going to happen. Firstly, if you've played the entirety of Alan Wake (DLC included) and Control (DLC included), so you would know that Alan is still trapped in the dark place (Alan Wake's American Nightmare probably isn't catechism).

That means Mr. Scratch (Alan Wake's double created by Cauldron Lake) is still out there, which likely also means that on elevation of having to escape the night place, Alan has to deal with Mr. Scratch. Further evidence of Mr. Scratch existence the villain is the jump cut in the trailer where we see Alan Wake bearing his teeth, covered in claret. Of grade, that'southward not Alan Wake (probably), and that's in fact Mr. Scratch.

In the teaser trailer, nosotros also meet visual cuts jumping from Bright Falls to New York City, which means those might be the two settings for Alan Wake 2. That makes sense since Alan Wake is from NYC, and the original game took place in Bright Falls. I would love zippo more than to run around in a haunted New York City landscape.

Alan Wake 2 gameplay

Remedy calls Alan Wake ii a survival horror game, so what does that hateful in terms of gameplay compared with the original game? Well, genres can exist super ambiguous, and then if y'all enquire 2 different people y'all'll get two unlike answers. But you lot're stuck with me, so you get my analogy.

If you're a fan of Resident Evil games, a good comparison would exist thinking of Alan Wake asResident Evil Village and Alan Wake 2 as Resident Evil vii. The one-time is more activity-packed, and the latter is spookier and makes you piece of work for those extra resources. That'southward what I imagine the jump might be similar, although I do remember Alan Wake 2 will be scarier than about Resident Evil games. That trailer is haunting. In a blog postal service, Remedy states that there volition be "psychological horror elements" equally well.

At the very least, I promise we get a healthy amount of guns and that the gameplay is drastically improved. Equally someone who simply finished Alan Wake -- that game is dated every bit hell. Alan should be able to sprint for more than than two seconds and we need a freaking inventory system, stat! Since the original was split into episodes, this impaired writer lost his flashlight and guns every fourth dimension something bad happened.

We're already impressed with the graphical capabilities that Remedy pulled off with the teaser trailer. Although information technology clearly states that it's not gameplay, it would be nice to see that kind of allegiance in the cutscenes.

Alan Wake two PC requirements

Of course at that place aren't whatsoever official PC requirements for Alan Wake 2 just yet, but we might get a skilful idea of what it'll require based on Control's PC requirements.

The recommended specs for Command required you to have an Intel Cadre i5-7600K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X CPU, 16GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660/1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 AMD GPU. For Ray Tracing, Remedy recommends an RTX 2060 GPU. Considering that the best cheap gaming laptops can run laps around that, you might be skilful for Alan Wake 2 with an RTX 3060 GPU.

Outlook

We're hyped for Alan Wake 2. It's been a decade since the last game, so fans take high expectations. Hopefully Remedy tin can live upwardly to them. The developer certainly made a splash with Control, so it clearly has a proficient track record. Stay tuned for more news and updates as we push closer to the release date and the summer of 2022.

Rami Tabari is an Editor for Laptop Mag. He reviews every shape and form of a laptop every bit well equally all sorts of cool tech. You can find him sitting at his desk surrounded by a hoarder'due south dream of laptops, and when he navigates his way out to civilization, you can catch him watching really bad anime or playing some kind of painfully difficult game. He'due south the best at every game and he just doesn't lose. That's why y'all'll occasionally catch his byline attached to the latest Souls-like challenge.