February 22nd 2012 6:00 am PT

Arcade: Alan Wake’s American Nightmare

Content: Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
Price: 1200 Microsoft Points
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: In this brand new standalone experience, Alan Wake fights the herald of darkness, the evil Mr. Scratch! A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode make this a must for Alan Wake veterans, and the perfect jumping on point for new players! Play the full-fledged Story Mode, and you’ll be on the edge of your seat as you fight to stop your murderous evil double to take back your life… and change reality itself! But there’s more to this nightmare – in the action-packed Arcade Mode, you’ll need to master the Fight with Light mechanic to stay alive until dawn and beat your friends on the Leaderboards. Can you survive until sunrise?

Add the free game trial to your Xbox 360 download queue

Want more Alan Wake? Play the original game

Arcade, Marketplace By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

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  • Anonymous

    Bought!

  • http://twitter.com/EvolutionQY71 EvolutionQY71

    got the demo, ill see whats it like

  • Anonymous

    Finally! I was hoping for a full fledged sequel to Alan Wake, but this will suffice for now. How did that game not catch on before? It was amazing.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XOTBJKUR4IW74YLQH2LHQTE2BU Kairu

      CoD fanboys. That is all.

      • Anonymous

        Yes, because if you’re not into Alan Wake…clearly you like Call of Duty. And liking Call of Duty is a bad thing because Call of Duty is popular.

        • http://twitter.com/Sleaka_J Sleaka J

          I don’t get it either, the 2 games have different genres. They aren’t competing at all.

          • Anonymous

            Call of Duty is a game that people love to hate on it any chance they can get even when it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.They like to think they have superior gaming tastes…even though they don’t.

        • ElektroDragon

          That’s pretty much spot on, Superman.

      • http://twitter.com/beachman707 Joe Mo

        Or people who don’t find science fiction games appealing.

    • Anonymous

       I personally didn’t care for it. Cool story, but the gameplay was repetitive. Same forest, same enemies for 10 hours. I started to get annoyed with the combat as it intruded on the story and felt like it was falsely extending the game to reach an arbitrary length.

  • http://twitter.com/GreenMistt Miller

    Major, any news on the Gamertag recycling?

    • http://twitter.com/WickedWaffles93 Dixie Normous

      No answer…

      • http://twitter.com/GreenMistt Miller

        Lol, yep.

  • ryder4life22187

    day 1 buy no need for the trial

  • Anonymous

    Playing through it now. Incredible stuff.
    I keep forgetting this is an Arcade game. It bears all the hallmarks of a fully fledged retail release for a fraction of the price.

    Remedy have outdone themselves. Hopefully this will set the trend for other XBLA devs to follow.

    Anyone on the fence about the purchase, I’ve got the gentle nudge you need; it’s my favourite game this year thus far and probably my favourite Arcade game ever.

    The first Alan Wake sold poorly enough, we as gamers need to support Remedy’s continued efforts.

  • Peter M.

    Great game. I’ll get this as soon as it comes out on PC.

  • http://twitter.com/Ganon255 Dustin

    I love the lighting and atmosphere

  • http://twitter.com/williamronholm Anonymous

     On the trial there’s a spelling error in the game’s description… “…you’ll fight wave after wave if enemies”.

  • http://twitter.com/seekul Luke Es | sE ekuL

    This reminds me that I’ve been meaning to buy the Barry Jacket.

  • http://twitter.com/beachman707 Joe Mo

    As a “hardcore” gamer who has slowly started to become more a “casual” gamer, I love this new episode business model.

  • http://twitter.com/beachman707 Joe Mo

    I wish this was still in the Pacific North West! I love huge trees and ferns in my games as opposed to concrete jungles.

  • http://www.youtube.com/achmetha achmetha

     Amazing. Always wanted a demo for the first game. This trial has given me the insight I needed to buy the original.

  • http://www.facebook.com/TheRealDarthBrady Daniel Brady

    I had some MS Points to spend and I loved Alan Wake. So I took the plunge and just bought it. After a night of playing it, I’m glad I did. Finally, the first good XBLA title in a long time, with the exception of Guardian Heroes. 

  • http://twitter.com/duznot Brad Lavender

    Got double-charged for this when the marketplace glitched. Took ten seconds to lose 1200 points, but will take several days to get them back. Thanks, jerks.

  • http://twitter.com/TonnhyMc Antonio MC

    Decepcionado por no doblar el juego al Español, han perdido por esto una venta.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T7LOQAEEWPFE7UBMQGVCTNELQI huck

      maybe alan wakes south american nightmare is next…
      then alan wake downunder!  :)

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