

And law enforcement is clearly on the scene too, as they've marked at least 38 pieces of evidence, including the strangely naked body.īeneath the picnic table on the right sits a deer's head, though it appears so clean that it may actually be a mask of some sort. It seems as though someone (Alan?) has killed the man or come upon this grisly scene. The interesting thing to note is that the body does not appear to be that of a Taken, especially considering that defeated Taken wither away into the air when killed. Without a doubt, you caught the human corpse lying on the picnic table like Hannibal Lecter was there enjoying a day at the park. In the first scene of the dioramic reveal trailer, we see Alan standing in the woods surrounded by some details well worth noting. The woods Click to expand each image and more closely examine the clues. Here are 20 things you may have missed in the Alan Wake 2 trailer, as broken down into its four main scenes. We're eager to learn more about the 2023 game, which Remedy says is going all in on survival-horror. We've tried to unravel all of those clues here. While there's no gameplay to look at yet, the mood piece does contain many clues as to the story and setting for Alan Wake 2. The debut trailer mixes some computer-generated environments with a live-action Alan who looks a bit like John Wick on day 10 of insomnia. Remedy's sequel once felt impossible, but the Finnish developer has been building toward this moment for the past several years, which included acquiring the intellectual property rights from Microsoft, revealing its Remedy Connected Universe, and remastering the original 2010 cult classic Alan Wake.
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It's been confirmed that Alan Wake 2 will get free DLC and two full expansions, and that it will be digital-only product at launch.
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Whatever's going on, there's more to this scene than meets the eye.Īlan Wake 2 is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated new games of 2023, and there's still plenty more info to come ahead of its release on October 17 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X. Then again, it could be Thomas Zane as we saw in Control: AWE, Zane appears to have swapped the diving suit out for a replica of Wake's body.

Scratch – Wake's Dark Place doppelganger who should have been burned out of existence in Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Remedy has made it pretty clear that Alan wake 2 features parallel storylines, with Saga Anderson exploring the real world while Alan Wake is trapped in the Dark Place – so who is the disheveled Alan Wake that she encounters in the last frame of the trailer?Ĭould Wake have written a version of himself into this horror story to assist Anderson and Casey, or is this in fact a return of Mr. While Alan Wake 2 has been primarily designed to be entirely playable without having played any of the previous instances where Wake shows up, the last shot of the trailer caused me to raise an eyebrow. The darker tone of this short certainly mirrors what we know about Alan Wake 2 so far, although I won't say any more than that – there's a very real chance the easter egg could signal the direction this story is heading. In it, we see Agent Casey working with an unidentified FBI agent to investigate the disappearance of the famous writer. Quantum Break may not officially be a part of the Remedy Connected Universe, but the 2016 Xbox One exclusive featured a live-action easter egg entitled ' Alan Wake's Return'. However, there's potentially more to this still. It would appear that Wake has written Casey into reality from the Dark Place. That's fun, but here's something key: Alex Casey should not exist the FBI Agent is a fictional construct – the protagonist of an action-thriller series written in-universe by Alan Wake, six books which follow the life (and death) of a hardened New York City cop.

Fantastic easter egg for long-time Remedy fans, or something bigger? For starters, Casey shares the likeness of Remedy creative director Sam Lake (the original likeness of Max Payne) and is voiced by James McCaffrey (voice of Max Payne).
