Alan Wake 2 Went Through Several Different Versions Before Settling On Saga Anderson Storyline

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Fans were overjoyed to see that Alan Wake was being picked back up. Remedy Entertainment made the reveal initially to highlight an Alan Wake 2 game that was in the works, but before the PlayStation Showcase, very little was known about the project. We knew that the development team was bringing out a survival horror experience rather than an action game with horror elements sprinkled throughout. We’re finding out that over the past decade, the development team had kicked around some ideas of what could be next for Alan Wake.

In a recent interview with Gamespot, creative director Sam Lake commented on the past several years at Remedy Entertainment. Sam noted that Alan Wake 2 was a work in progress over the last 13 years. The developers had several versions of the game, but they started to settle in on a project that focused on multiple playable characters. A few versions after settling on this idea, they eventually landed on a character and storyline they liked. 

That, of course, introduces us to the new character we met during the PlayStation Showcase event. We’re still a good ways out from Alan Wake 2’s release, so more insight is bound to be coming over the next few months. But it looks like fans can go into this game knowing they won’t be stuck playing just as Alan Wake this time around. Fortunately, for those Alan Wake fans out there, it’s already been confirmed that this is still very much a character you’ll play sections of the campaign as. But the whole storyline will revolve around both Alan Wake and the new addition to the IP, Saga Anderson.

We wanted to be really, really ambitious with the story. So having multiple points of view in the story, and having more tonal shifts with that, just felt like the right way