PC Performance & Final Thoughts
Alan wake looks really marvelous and to think it would run at ultra settings on a mid-end gaming graphic card at 1080p is a bit too much to ask, in my personal experience the major performance killer here are the obvious ambient occlusion and anti-aliasing followed by shadow and light effects.
This game is not one of the most optimized games i have seen but it’s not the worst either. So we can say basically what you pay is what you get in this game’s case, if you have a gtx 570 series card then you should have absolutely no problem maxing it out with aa and af maxed out, but if you have a modest gpu like gtx 460 and below and then you might want to turn a few settings down a notch to play it smoothly on 1080p.
But still the fact that this game runs really well by just decreasing the anti-aliasing in my case proves that you can achieve good FPS without much graphic fidelity loss. This game rarely crashed or froze on me and had almost no noticeable bugs which is a huge benefit for pc gamers as less bugs=less headache.
Finally PROs and CONs :
PROs
- One of the best narratives i have experienced.
- It’s an adequately long game.
- Graphics are simply mind blowing.
- Costs very less for what it offers for the pc version.
- Good Artificial Intelligence(AI).
CONs
- Could have been more optimized.
- Controls felt a bit off.
- Could have been more creepy/scary.
- Could have had more weapon types.
Review Rig :
Core i7 870 @ 3.00GHz
8GB Ripjaws-X @ 1600MHz
MSI GTX460 Hawk Talon Attack @ 811MHz
Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA 2 HDD @ 7200rpm
MS Windows 7 x64 SP1
Hope you guys like this review.
Over and Out ghost_z.
