The boxed PC version of Alan Wake has now been released in Belgium, Italy, France, Korea, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Taiwan, Thailand and Serbia
There are two physical versions of the game. The first is the Standard Edition which come with the game (including both DLC packs), the OST (containing 13 tracks), 6 postcards, 1 double sided poster and 7 stickers. The Limited Collector's Edition of the game comes with all of the contents of the Standard Edition plus The Alan Wake Files (paperback) and an extra disc containing documentaries, storyboards, trailers, music videos and the developer commentary.
Below is an extract from Amazon.
Key PC Features:
- Experience Alan Wake’s Pacific Northwest in higher resolutions and higher fidelity than ever before
- High-res textures
- Refined and High–res shadows
- Improved lighting further enhanced by additional god rays and cleanly covered surroundings
- Extremely responsive and refined controls for the PC platform (i.e. direct and precise response to keyboard and mouse input)
- No Auto-Aiming
- Refined and fully configurable mouse and keyboard support (Microsoft Xbox 360 controller is of course supported as well)
- A wide selection of customizable graphics settings and support for 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios
- Multithreaded engine that takes advantage of quad core CPUs
- Additional options our fans have sought after, such as field of view adjustment as well as “hide HUD”.
- Works with AMD Eyefinity 3D 3-screen mode
- The amount of 3D is adjustable
- Works with NVIDIA NVISION2 Stereoscopic 3D
- The amount of 3D is adjustable
Features:
- Light as a combat element. As the story progresses, nights grow longer and days grow shorter. This poses a severe problem for Alan Wake since his enemies seemingly gain strength from the shadows, and before long light itself becomes his greatest ally.
- Players must skilfully combine their use of light with more conventional weapons to stand a chance against these Taken.
- Realistic, interactive environment. Set in the town of Bright Falls, the hyper detailed environments of the Pacific Northwest play an important role; even the change in daylight and weather will profoundly affect the characters and enemies. The game’s advanced rendering engine provides amazingly realistic environments that bring this world to detailed life — from the lush forest of evergreen trees to the quaint small-town buildings and streets. The world of “Alan Wake” is alive and real.
- Episodic narrative. The mission-based structure of “Alan Wake” creates an episodic narrative similar to a deeply structured dramatic television series. As the episodes progress, gameplay will evolve to introduce new elements and characters, escalating the level of threat and action in the game.
- Stereoscopic 3D support. Alan Wake for PC supports the 3D NVision from NVidia. Although fairly performance-heavy (high end GPU such as the GeForce 580GTX and moderate graphics settings are recommended), this is a real eye-candy and further augments the already vivid, detailed, and wonderful environment.
