Don’t make me a liar, Remedy
You haven’t even downloaded Remedy’sAlan Wake 2yet, assuming you’re planning to, which means it’s already time to start thinking about what you’ll do once you’ve finished it. Apologies, the news beat is a cruel mistress and the present is always past, but in my defence, jumping irresponsibly around the timelinedoesmake sense for a supernaturalhorrorgame that follows two characters through different dimensions.
Remedy’s plans for the game include a chunky New Game+ mode, aka “Final Draft”, which will hopefully arrive in late November, and two DLC packs, Night Springs and The Lake House. The first concernsAlan Wake’s fictional in-game TV show, a homage to the Twilight Zone, while the second involves “an independent government organization” that can surely only be the Federal Bureau ofControl.
The Lake House has no release period as yet, and sees you exploring a weird secret research facility set up by the aforesaid government spooks. It consists of two separate adventures and by the sounds of things, will star the main game protagonists Saga Anderson and Mr Wake himself. The research facility is built on the shores of Cauldron Lake, which features alongside Wake in Control’s AWE DLC. Yep, this sure sounds like a crossover. The question is, will it lay the foundations forControl 2,announced in November last year, which Remedy’s Mikael Kasurinen described as “a leap into the unknown”?
Woof, I’m seriously getting ahead of myself. Let’s wind back the clock to Alan Wake 2 at launch. Katharine is reviewing it and ispretty impressed so far, pre-plotted evidence-matching sequences aside.
