For a game releasing in October, we haven't seen much of Alan Wake 2 so far—and the footage revealed at Summer Games Fest was a fairly short slice. But it's already striking to me how much more of a full-blooded horror game it seems like compared to the original.
"Alan Wake 2 is Remedy's first survival horror game," says creator Sam Lake, and certainly as new protagonist Saga Anderson creeps her way through an abandoned house in the woods, the atmosphere is thick with dread. It's almost a relief when an imposing, supernaturally-corrupted axe murderer bursts through the wall. As Saga pumps bullet after bullet into the figure, who steadily advances like Jason Voorhees, barely seeming to care, there are echoes of the recent Resident Evil remakes to my eyes.
