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Alan Wake 2 New Game+ and DLC plans include what can only be a Control crossoverDon’t make me a liar, Remedy
Don’t make me a liar, Remedy
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Epic Games Publishing
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Epic Games Publishing
You haven’t even downloaded Remedy’sAlan Wake 2yet, assuming you’re planning to, which means it’s already time to start thinking about what you’ll do once you’ve finished it. Apologies, the news beat is a cruel mistress and the present is always past, but in my defence, jumping irresponsibly around the timelinedoesmake sense for a supernaturalhorrorgame that follows two characters through different dimensions.
Remedy’s plans for the game include a chunky New Game+ mode, aka “Final Draft”, which will hopefully arrive in late November, and two DLC packs, Night Springs and The Lake House. The first concernsAlan Wake’s fictional in-game TV show, a homage to the Twilight Zone, while the second involves “an independent government organization” that can surely only be the Federal Bureau ofControl.
Alan Wake 2’s Final Draft NG+ mode unlocks a Nightmare difficulty setting and lets you start over with all unlocked weapons, Charms and Words of Power upgrades. Intriguingly, it also introduces an alternative narrative encompassing six new Manuscript pages and video content on in-game TVs, which is certainly a bigger draw for me in terms of NG+ offerings than the customary “we replaced all the rats in the first dungeon with arch-demons”. There are also “a few other surprises”, dot dot dot, and Remedy are putting together a Photo Mode, though it sounds like this might arrive separately to the Final Draft stuff.
As regards the expansions, Night Springs is tentatively pencilled in for late spring 2024, and sees you playing through episodes of the titular TV show as “several familiar characters from the world of Alan Wake”.
Woof, I’m seriously getting ahead of myself. Let’s wind back the clock to Alan Wake 2 at launch. Katharine is reviewing it and ispretty impressed so far, pre-plotted evidence-matching sequences aside.
