There’s a lot to love about Alan Wake, from its stunningly atmospheric visuals to the quirky Twin Peaks-esque charm that could be used to describe its narrative, cast and the world they both inhabit. Remedy’s supernatural thriller gave us gaming’s second best Barry, introduced us to “Night Springs”, and then it left us with some wonderfully strange epilogue DLC in The Signal and The Writer, which are now available on the Xbox Marketplace at no charge.
The two episodes pick up where Alan Wake left off, as the eponymous writer struggles to escape from a surreal new prison in the icy depths of Cauldron Lake, where words can be transmuted into the objects they represent using the power of product placement (thanks, Energizer!) and sinister flocks of sentient murder-books seek vengeance for all the times we’ve dog-eared them.
