Fresh Alan Wake shots

WOW WOW WOW WOWWWW!!! Seriously that's next-gen sh!t imo!! Everytime I see screens of Alan Wake I am blown away! I love weather effects in games as they really help with the immersion and atmosphere and Alan Wake looks to have the best weather effects i've ever seen.

Just WOW!

Also everything in the environment is interactive or destructible in some way. The buildings are all supposed to be destructible and objects e.g logs and cars etc that you can see in the mill area are supposed to have proper physics so that they can be thrown around etc.

Remedy are always known to have good graphics but this is something else! Just look at the geometry on that mill....just amazing! Even thinking in that much detail would take me years!

I wish people would just let the devs do their thing. The more people complaining about release dates the more the devs are forced to rush it.

I too want it to come out soon but I don't want to be told November 2007 and it just get pushed back to 2008 or something. If the devs had a solid release date i'm sure we'd get it. Also i'd spew if it came out all buggy and glitchy! Oblivion suffered for me as a result of it being rushed and I don't want this happening to any game EVER again!

Take Sylar's release dates with a grain of salt but Remedy are a Finnish developer so the confirmed release date for Europe and TBA for the U.S could be true.

Edit: Klawrence....what does that mean? You think Alan Wake could end up being pushed back so far it becomes a little bit llike S.T.A.L.K.E.R (in that it drops on and off the release lists for years)? Or are you saying it looks like a rip-off or it's not gonna hold a candle to S.T.A.L.K.E.R....cuz after having some good playtime with S.T.A.L.K.E.R i'm pretty dissapointed. Awesome graphics, weather effects, A.I etc but the game is just so boring! The game is littered with fetch quests and the PDA/Map system is probably the crappiest (but at the same time looking like it would be effective) i've ever used in a game! In other words I hope to hell it ain't anything like S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of a good game.

Have you guys been to the Remedy Website? Those Alan Wake screens on there are even better.

Here is one:

http://www.alanwake.com/screenshots/Alan_Wake_2006_017.jpg

The rest you guys can see on the site. Just make sure you click on the ones to the right which shows different environments with different times of the day/weather conditions.

^ Yea my gaming tastes seem to be quite similar to yours and Frozencry's. Lots of big blockbuster action games....that's the sorta stuff that's always at the top of the list and then most of the classic franchises.

Yea i'm all for another Max Payne game. There's also supposed to be a movie in the works but haven't heard anything about that in a while.

I think Stranglehold will be my Max Payne 3 that's why i'm looking foward to it so much. It also adds another demension to the Max Payne games....Max Payne 1 was all about bullet-time and shoot-dodge, part 2 was all about the havok physics engine combined with the bullet-time combo meter and stranglehold (my Max Payne 3) looks to add environmental/object interaction including destructability along with some new moves.....so yea it seems like a perfect evolution to the Max Payne series.