Alan Wake 2 would arrive in October, stated a voice actor earlier this week. They weren’t improper. Builders Treatment confirmed the information through a prolonged new trailer proven throughout tonight’s PlayStation Showcase, and embedded beneath.
“What’s your identify?” asks an FBI agent, earlier than we minimize to the title card. Oh how badly I needed him to say out loud that his identify was “Alan Wake 2”.
In any other case the trailer appears to revive a lot of the hallmarks of the primary sport: Alan Wake is an writer of horror-thrillers who resides in a small, foggy, Twin Peaks-ish city, and he could or might not be trapped in a narrative of his personal writing. You seemingly play because the aforementioned FBI agent for a minimum of a part of the sport, there’s third-person fight in opposition to monsters, and…
There’s one other FBI agent with the face of Sam Lake, the Treatment inventive director who can be the face of Max Payne. There are express Max Payne references within the unique Alan Wake, so I admit I am intrigued as as to if this FBI agent connects the worlds collectively in a roundabout way.
Alan Wake 2 will arrive on October seventeenth. It is being printed by Epic and will probably be unique to the Epic Video games Retailer.
