Alan Wake 2 is out in October, adds a new protagonist: Saga Anderson
Alan Wake 2 will release on October 17. The date was revealed in a new trailer shown during today's PlayStation Showcase, which also introduced a second protagonist to share the stage with Alan: FBI agent Saga Anderson.
According to Remedy, it's no big deal if you haven't played the first Alan Wake: you should be able to «easily dive into the sequel» and figure out what's going on anyway. That's probably true: As big as the Remedyverse is getting, and as weird as its stories can be, the Finnish studio likes to work within known genre archetypes with direct, monologue-heavy storytelling.
«A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by the Pacific Northwest wilderness,» writes Remedy communications director Thomas Puha, summarizing Alan Wake 2's story on the PlayStation Blog. «Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases, arrives to investigate the murders. Soon the events spiral into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that start to come true around her. Somehow the events seem to lead to Alan Wake, the horror writer who went missing 13 years ago.»
Alan Wake 2 will be played from both Anderson and Wake's perspectives. The new trailer also includes an appearance from Remedy writer Sam Lake himself, who was also the face of the original Max Payne.
The 'real world' setting for the horror adventure is the Pacific Northwest, where Anderson will explore Bright Falls, «the stunning primordial forest surrounding the mysterious Cauldron Lake,» another town called Watery. Meanwhile, Wake is stuck in the Dark Place, «a shifting, looping reality.»
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