Alan Wake Remastered review

Alan Wake Remastered adds a shiny coat of paint to the beloved action-thriller

Since its original release back in 2010, Alan Wake has become a video game cult classic. Now more than a decade later, the game has been re-released for modern systems in the form of Alan Wake Remastered.

The clue is very much in the name here. Alan Wake Remastered takes the original game, packages it up with its two DLC expansions, and adds some very welcome performance and visual improvements.

This isn’t a full-scale remake. The game plays just as it did before, and even the added visual improvements cannot hide the fact that Alan Wake was originally released on the Xbox 360.

However, great games stand the test of time, and that’s very much been the case with Alan Wake. The chance to re-experience — or enjoy for the first time — one of the finest games of its generation is a welcome one.

Alan Wake Remastered doesn’t overhaul the original foundations, but it does add welcome improvements to a game that has mostly stood the test of time.