Alan Wake is a fucking scary ass game.
Okay, so I NEVER play scary video games, ever. Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion make me shit bricks… it’s that bad. I hate video games that scare because I’m the one in control, aside from a movie where someone’s fate is already predetermined. That is why, to me, Alan Wake is fucking scary game.
Well today, I was at a friend’s house and she picked up Alan Wake which was her sister’s. She popped it in. She already knew about it because she watched her sister play and said she was freaking out, they both were I mean.
The game is labeled as ‘psychological thriller’, which for the most part is correct. The first, sort of, prequel/tutorial level to the story is called ‘Nightmare’, yeah I fucking shat myself right there. Your character hits a hitchhiker and you get out of the car, inspect the body, something catches your attention, and then the body is gone. You begin to walk towards the random patches of light coming from street lamps. The man you killed appears behind you, shrouded in darkness, holding an axe, screaming, “DIE! DIE! DIE!” and “I’m going to get you Alan!” shit like that. The controls tell you to run. So you are running, your character getting slower with every step because he is getting winded, all with a crazy thing behind you chopping shit, hissing, and threatening you. Oh yeah, and you’re running in the middle of the woods… scary, dark woods. Meanwhile, my friend is screaming and I’m yelling at the screen. It. was. bad. We were shitting ourselves…
Here’s the video for the first part, ‘Nightmare’.
