{"id":8563,"date":"2012-11-02T22:58:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T04:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=8563"},"modified":"2012-11-02T22:58:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T04:58:37","slug":"alan-wakes-american-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=8563","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wake’s American Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had heard something about a new Alan Wake game, released as a short XBLA downloadable title, way back in February of this year. I jotted the game down in my mental list of titles to look up later and then promptly forgot about it. The game came and went without much of a murmur, obscure to even to the collective consciousness of my twitter feed.<\/p>\n

Then sometime last month I noticed that the game was on sale. Not via the XBLA dashboard, mind you: it’s impossible to find anything game-related there nowadays. Somebody on Twitter, maybe a Remedy employee, mentioned that Alan Wake’s American Nightmare<\/a> had gone on sale. I booted up my trusty 360 and after ten minutes of struggling to find the game in Microsoft’s labyrinthine user interface, I finally discovered it wedged between an ad for a sports drink and a promo for The Avengers. There was little reason to wait for a sale, though–the game only costs $15 full price.<\/p>\n

Though I enjoyed the original Alan Wake<\/a>, the DLC missions didn’t grip me and eventually I left them unfinished. Frankly, I was expecting American Nightmare to be more of the same. And while it is a throughly Alan Wake game, I am happy to report that it is really good. So good, in fact, that I like it more than the first Wake game.<\/p>\n

You can read my review<\/a> for details. The game is interesting, fun, and very smartly designed. I am a fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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