Absolutely dripping with style and intrigue, Alan Wake is the gripping tale of a hack writer who started rewriting his own reality. It's a generally pretty excellent action game with fantastic atmosphere and a really interesting thematic exploration of the act of writing fiction, and while it does stumble in places on the gameplay front and certainly shows some of the telltale markers of being A Seventh Gen Game, I highly recommend it, especially now that it's been folded into Remedy's shared universe in some REALLY interesting ways that makes its story and themes even more interesting in retrospect.