Alan wakes American nightmare

Alan wakes American nightmare is. A short sequel to the massively popular game Alan wake a psychological thriller. AWAN was released in 2012 as a sort of novelette to while they worked on a full length sequel that unfortunately never came. A unique part of Alan wake is that the entire plot is written out in a book and your actions are narrated. In the game you can find manuscript pages to unlock secrets and even find out what's going to happen before it even happens

The story starts off with the hero Alan wake waking up in a canyon at night. He grabs his flashlight and gets up stating that he needs to find his gun. As you scan the environment with your flashlight acting as your cursor you see a shine in the distance as you walk over to it you see an m9 pistol laying on the ground just as you pick it up a dark presence materializes in front of you and out steps a man shrouded in darkness. He slowly lumbers toward you an axe in hand as you shoot him with no visible effect until Alan says that he needs to concentrate the light to get rid of the darkness surrounding him. After concentrating the light on the man the darkness dissipates but he is still after you so after you shoot him and he dissolves into shadows.

This is just some of the intense action and creepy atmosphere that the Alan wake series is chock full of. However I felt that awan was more of an action junky shootem up than the creepy constantly checking your back feeling that the first one gave me. Looking at the game it's more of a third person shooter than a continuation but it still has it's moments where it can give you a good scare
It's a good game but not great