There’s nothing really surprising or new about this Alan Wake 2 gameplay demo – it’s very much the cinematic third-person shooter you may be expecting. The bottom line, however, is that it looks absurdly good – like, unbelievably so. Much of this 15-minute demo revolves around obsessively detailed environments, but it eventually segues into FMV.
During this week’s Gamescom Opening Night Live presentation, Remedy boss Sam Lake explained a little bit about how his team has incorporated live action footage into the game. Here we see a television show playing in a dressing room, which Wake interacts with to start the cutscene. It’s all mightily impressive stuff, and it’s heightened our enthusiasm for the full release.
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I may be naive, but I do believe that it’s running on PS5. But its gameplay looks unbelievably boring to me.
Can’t wait for this one. I’m even more excited about Alan Wake than Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3. Remedy’s games are typically among my favorites of all time and they keep getting better. If this one supersedes Control, man…
Looks amazing but choppy, this close to release it's a bit jarring to see it being shown with so overtly visible framerate issues.
I do wonder how well that much walking will hold up though. Hopefully more investigation aspects break up the walking because that was pretty, but also pretty painful to watch.
Def Not Running on a ps5. You can See Xbox controls.
THIS GAME WILL BE AMAZING!!!
I recently played through Control and thought it was one of the most impressive looking games on PS5, what with the ray tracing and destructible environments. I’m really looking forward to seeing what Remedy can do when they can just focus on current gen.
Digital release only though 😩😩
@Max_the_German based on the onscreen button prompts, its running on a PC or Xbox
Please don’t have that weird motion blur that Control had, I’ve never played a game that actively made me unwell the way Control did.
I'm cautiously pessimistic about this. I've always found Remedy games to have a great premise behind them but they always drop the ball when it comes to gameplay execution. This video does nothing to alleviate my concerns and the shockingly poor frame rate for a game so close to release doesn't help either.
@Sakai Probably a PC running using the recently announced DLSS 3.5 - which adds AI ray trace reconstruction for even more accurate RT without the added costs of accurate RT.
Say what you want about RT, but Nvidia is really doing wonders here with AI.
I don't think people realize how much real-time RT helps - not just from an image standpoint, but an actual developer standpoint: there is no more waiting to render a scene to see how it lights up. Artists can get a WYSIWYG at design time.
Sure, sometimes the lighting may not look much different than the rasterized version, but what it took to properly light that scene took way took way less time with real-time RT. It's not all flash and gimmicks.
AMD really needs to get on the ball with this so it can become standard (and help drive costs to get the capabilities down).
The audio in this game is amazing! Watching this with headphones is a real treat!
Everyone is excited for my review of this one.
@johncalmc Alan Wack strikes again!
Been waiting 13 years, only 2 more months....
Jared Leto got “fat” but that’s ok if it means we cannot rush through it.
Love Remedy so I'll definetly check this out further down the line.
Omg niceeeeeee graphics 10101001 🙄 the 1st game I tried was boring and was promptly deleted, I don't expect anything better from this one
@Max_the_German that because it will be, I think the fact that they are focusing on the graphics mainly speaks volumes lol
“Looks excellent on PS5!!”
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Yea this is probably my most hyped game coming out this year.
I’m super excited and can’t wait. It does look incredible
@SystemAddict @XboxTheBestBox All I see is Morbius, which is not the selling point they think it is. 😂
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/06/06/morbius-sweeped-why-sony-brought-jared-leto-box-office-bomb-back-to-theaters/?sh=13e69cef6497
Did it look visually appealing? Yes. Did it look fun? No.
Does look good. First one wasn't for me but I'll be getting this at some point
@johncalmc Better not give it 6/10 like the first game! How dare you, sir!
@Sakai Are you the guy who always says there‘s a logical error in a previously told joke?
@LIMA
Haha, do you still think it "looks incredible" Sammy? 😉 😆
I mirror a lot of the comments above about remedies games. Recently playing Quantum Break, reaching level 3, having zero fun gameplaywise and because the story wasn't engaging in my opinion, I uninstalled.
I just don't like the worlds they create, clearly a personal decision as other players love them. If the story and characters are weak, the gameplay won't carry you through as that's usually the worst part.
I'm really confused why they want to add live action with their games. What exactly is that going to be offering to the gameplay besides being in real life? It was the same problem with Quantum Break we saw some cool live action moments that we could not interact with.
Super hyped for AW2 and Control 2. Hurry up October.
Didn’t love how the first AW played, but thought Control felt great, so I’m hoping they’ve learned some lessons there. It does look amazing visually, hopefully they’ve gone and added both performance and resolution modes like with Control.
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