DoctorFinger
10-06-2008, 07:15 AM
Alan Wake - developer Remedy's follow up to the immensely popular Max Payne series - was || this close to becoming the next piece of legendary vaporware. But alas, the Finnish development house has begun to lift the veil covering the title. First we learned that a trailer for the game would - for one day only - be playing in front of the Mad Payne film in their native Finland. Now, 1UP has been granted an interview with Remedy's lead writer: Sam Lake, who opens a little about Alan Wake.
1UP: Can you talk about the themes of the game and more about the television show/DVD box set inspired story-telling? How is this evident in the actual game?
SL: The game is a psychological action thriller, and as such, everything revolves around the mind of the main character -- the things that lurk in the depths of his subconscious mind. How an artist transports what's inside him, in this case his fears, to the outside world through his art. Themes that many writers have explored -- Stephen King for one, Paul Auster, Bret Easton Ellis, and so on.
We think of Alan Wake as Alan Wake season one; the game is the DVD box of a season of a television series turned into a videogame. The experience is divided into episodes with cliffhanger endings and there is a supporting cast of characters around Wake himself. Source - 1UP (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170347).
1UP: Can you talk about the themes of the game and more about the television show/DVD box set inspired story-telling? How is this evident in the actual game?
SL: The game is a psychological action thriller, and as such, everything revolves around the mind of the main character -- the things that lurk in the depths of his subconscious mind. How an artist transports what's inside him, in this case his fears, to the outside world through his art. Themes that many writers have explored -- Stephen King for one, Paul Auster, Bret Easton Ellis, and so on.
We think of Alan Wake as Alan Wake season one; the game is the DVD box of a season of a television series turned into a videogame. The experience is divided into episodes with cliffhanger endings and there is a supporting cast of characters around Wake himself. Source - 1UP (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170347).