Alan Wake 2 Finally Doubles Down on its Best Gimmick

In the last 27 years, Remedy Entertainment has put out a plethora of high-budget, high-quality video game experiences, and not one of them feels the same to play. Remedy is well-known for being a studio that likes to do things its own way, and that includes injecting each and every one of its games with at least one type of unique gameplay mechanic. In Max Payne, it was the revolutionary bullet-time mechanic, and in Control, it was the ability to levitate and use telekinesis. But Alan Wake 2 doesn’t have just one unique gameplay feature, it has many.