Alan Wake Remastered Review | DO NOT BUY! 

I've played this game through multiple times on ps5... I haven't seen any problems at all so far

I got a free on PlayStation plus and I’ve encountered no issues

I just bought this as well as a huge fan of the OG, thought now was the time to fit in a replay for cheap and holy crap is it busted with all the artifacting. I never would have thought I'd need to check if it was any good to buy since the original was great. Wish I'd found this sooner. I still have the original on steam.

Weird... the ps5 version is totally fine.. its a shame the pc is neglected in favour of consoles only most of the time...replayed tbrough the game only a week ago.

I just bought the OG on PC for $4.... runs perfectly at 4K on my potato PC (much better than backwards compatibility). I Don't know why I skipped it when it came out con 360. What an amazing game!

FYI played on PS5 and had no issues.

Now i do not feel bad anymore about the Game not being available on Steam

Currently at 23% game progression and I still can't say I'm liking it instead I feel nauseated sometimes playing it and had to stop every now and then and switch to other games. I did love Control UE and never had this kind of problem and kept me engaged from start to finish.

On xbox series x sometimes the game freezes so you have to restart the whole thing and if you skip ONE cutscene, there is a high chance that the audio/voices will be off within the next few cutscenes...

It’s perfectly fine now. Buy it!!!!

I completely agree with this review, the remaster is awful on PC

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0:59 that’s the exact reason why I decided to stop and replay the original pc version instead. Totally immersion and game-breaking.

Thanks! Game was on discount and was reading through reviews of people complaining about audio issues in cut scenes and other bugs. Buying the original! Appreciate it my man

Bugs are funny as hell though as long as they are not game breaking

It's a definitive nobuy for Ryzen cpu owners though. The game suffers from vertex explosions, flashing lights/shadows, artifacting when fade to cutscene happens and black screens and the only way to partly alleviate these issues is to set your monitor's refresh rate to 60 and enable vsync thus nerfing the game's performance severely. After 2 years of ryzen owners reporting this issue it completely fell on deaf ears. They have abandoned this game.

Congratulations to the reviewer for the worse review of this game on RU-vid😂

Got it from ps plus

Bugs aside, it looks you expected way too much out of a remaster “promised so little with a minimal improvement over the original” (as opposed to a remake). TLOU remake or Demons Souls being a good example of a remake job from the ground up.

i cant believe they are selling this game its bullshit avoid on pc get it on ps5

Once in awhile I think about buying this because it's cheap now but when I heard it's not even optimized for series X and the gameplay didn't change then what's the point? There was nothing wrong with the game anyway.

I did not play the original back in the day, i did however play Max payne 1 and 2, as well as Control. Knowing about Alan Wake 2 release being imminent i thought about giving this remaster a shot before playing the upcoming sequel. I Agree that the face models are awful, and it controls like shit, I don't love the enemy death animations but then again i did not have the OG ones to compare to. I also think that the color palette is a bit dull and does not convey that horror story feel you mentioned. Playing in xbox one I did not experience any game breaking bugs, but i do have problems with voice tracks becoming unsynched and once some bug caused all the foliage to get a wrong texture like static on a TV screen which was awesome. All in all I rate it as a generally enjoyable experience but I'd rather have played the original, for sure.

I got it for free when buying AW2 and I still feel cheated. Thought I'd replay it before starting the sequel. First time I launed the game, it tried detecting my hardware, failed, said my PC wasn't powerful enough ( I have an RTX 4080 and 5900x... ) so they didn't even bother to add something to detect recent hardware, then the game went into a weird resulotion and only displayed 1/4 of the screen, and I had no control on anything, had to alt+F4. Restarting the game fixed the issue and I could access the options and start the game, played for a few minutes, black polygons appearing everywhere on screen, and white, blinding flashes, then I saw the weird death animations of the enemies floating in the air and gave up. No wonder Epic keeps this shit on their store, it would get shredded by the fans in the Steam reviews. Unbelievable that they don't fix anything. Fuck Epic and the studio who made that remaster.

Yeah they have this on the essentials which is all I got. Because I don't do digital gaming much at all and the only reason I have it is because PlayStation locks their Cloud behind a paywall and I got it for a year for like 30 bucks. So luckily I didn't pay anything added for it. I'm honestly not buying Alan Wake 2 because it's digital-only and I will never ever ever by digital.. But Alan Wake remaster is a very weak remaster. Definitely not to crazy of a difference. I wouldn't call this a remaster I would call this a Alan Wake refresh

I was really interested in playing this when it was released but I'm not a fan of this game not much ammo and enemies just respawn and even trying to run you run out of energy and they kill you and you can't move I couldn't play it in the end which sucks

L take. Runs smooth on Ps5. No issues at all. Haven’t tried, nor will I try it on my PC.

I own the original on steam but was considering buying this to do another playthrough before Alan Wake 2 comes out, good thing I looked at this video first. I already dislike buying games on Epic store.

I AM FACING THE ARTIFACTS ON PC

Its frer this month on PS now i wondered why, since the hype was huge for this.

I can even play the original. I have the GOG & Steam versions, both won't launch! (Playing on a Win 11 OS) Compatibility mode failed... Do I have to download a patch?

That's a shame that Alan Wake still has so many bugs on PC. I'll still play it one day as I never played the original and really dug Control. Having said that, I finished Horizon:Forbidden West and am one achievement away from the plat. Now I just have to learn how to play Machine Strike for the trophy...or task my 12 year old son to do it. 😅

Check your computer. It ran smoothly on my system.

Yeah for this month it's for free to download that's why I came here to check it out so right now you can download the remastered for free but now I know why it's for free

got to say I'm about to refund enven i paid only 7 bucks for it. Amount of glitche I had in frist half hour is rediculus and flying enemies are just a joke. It's for sure disaponting.

That artifacting is insane in this game

Awesome on PS5! Loved every minute.

Its d3t dev done the remaster... With how they poorly ported acc to consoles, and mafia2, not surprised.

I got it for 12$ on sale now, so it’s at least cheap

is this good on PS5/XSX?

i bought from epic for 50 cents :d no harm done.

They need to make Alan Wake 2.

Yeah, the remaster on pc is still in a terrible state. I will wait for them to fix it before i pay for Alan wake 2

you know what's funny alan wake on xbox 360 has fps boost so its even more reason to never purchase this demaster.

have you tried wolfenstein old blood

shall i buy it for 12 euro in psn ?

I'll skip and wait for the second game in the series.

I just want Dead rising 3 remastered on ps4 hahaha

too much consolitis for me anyway

I wish the dreaded algorythm would pick up your content.. It's QUALITY! Glad you're still pumping out great content regardless 🙏

I played part 2 it's definitely a horror game this time around.

Thanks for the warning: this game was on my shortlist. I will snag a copy of the original version instead.

Completely disagree with this review.

Just finished it, on ps5 was amazing

Bought. Played it. Enjoyed it. Cry more

Funny peaple who are complaining it could be there xbox having isues my xbox series x is running the cutscene are fine wtf Is the isue with this game anyway must be your xbox gas isues mine is running this game remastered no isues definitely gonna have to get the 2nd game after playing this one tho but no isues on my side