Alan Wake 2 arrives this October more than than 13 years after Remedy’s original game, and after a number of false starts at getting the sequel made.
Much of developer Remedy’s original pitch for the sequel eventually worked its way into Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, the action-heavy 2012 standalone spinoff which, while not unanimously loved by critics, went on to be one of the cult hits of the old Xbox Live Arcade days.
Remedy has continued to work on ideas for a full sequel ever since, through the period where it released Quantum Break – the Xbox One exclusive that mixed time-bending action and shooting with live-action TV episodes – and then the fellow “Remedy connected universe” entry Control.
