First impressions of Alan Wake are all in the positive – it definitely gets the thumbs up. Here’s an excerpt from my original article:

So Alan Wake is a game about a writer (which I really digged, btw) and you play as Alan. The cool thing about the world of Alan Wake is that the game is played out in sequences (called ‘Chapters’, just like in one of his books). You find yourself (as Alan) caught up in some strangely weird alternate reality inside one of Alan’s dreams. He calls it a ‘dream’ but the creepy characters and supernatural occurances that feature throughout the dream make it more like a nightmare really, which is when things start to get very intense.

You can read the original article here.