Remedy Was Sure Alan Wake 2 Would Happen, And Work Started Alongside Control
Were you ever worried that Alan Wake 2 was never going to be released? Remedy Entertainment creative director Sam Lake has explained that he never actually got that feeling.
Before we get to Sam’s comments, let’s quickly review the completely valid reasons that fans were worried that Alan Wake as a franchise was done.
The first Alan Wake game was released in 2001. While most fans and critics see it as an action survival horror, Remedy actually combines several elements from other genres, including the episodic nature of a TV show, and some real action gameplay mechanics, to produce a work more original than the sum of its parts.
Two years later, Remedy released a spinoff, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. This turned out to not be a true sequel in terms of extending the story. Instead, it was a wave based action game where you fight the same mysterious ghouls, though it is set in the same continuity as the first game.
In 2015, we had covered Sam’s statement about Alan Wake 2. He had said then that Remedy had not ‘given up on that dream.’
With the power of insight, we understand that things were drastically different then than they are now. At this point in time, Remedy was owned by Microsoft, and subsequently, Microsoft had the rights to the Alan Wake franchise.
Alan Wake and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare were both developed while Microsoft owned Remedy, and at this time, they had a say on whether an Alan Wake 2 could be greenlit. Aside from these projects, Remedy produced the underappreciated but still critically acclaimed Quantum Break.
It would take Remedy leaving Microsoft, and being granted the rights back to Alan Wake, for Alan Wake 2 to go back into production. Truly, it was quite a trek for Remedy Entertainment to
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