AW1 is my favorite game of all time. When people ask me, what's your favorite game of all time, I always without hesitation say, Alan Wake. If I could only play any one game over again and never get to play anything else, again it's Alan Wake. I think you all see where I'm at with AW1 now. So I spent just shy of 100 hours playing through AW2. I gotta say as the game started off. Not trying to spoil anything for anyone. As you play the first playable character about 3 to 4 minutes in, you start going up a hill and the weather and forest start to come alive, I only grew with excitement as I thought this would happen often throughout the game only to find out it didn't really happen again after that. Heavy rain was about the worst and some wind, but not tree rocking crazy fog and wind like AW1. Imagine what that Northlight engine could really do with that these days! My biggest disappointments were the lack of crazy weather in the trees and forest when something bad was getting close, now we just see some small lightning flashes ahead of us to let us know, just turn and go around, or here, they're they are. I really expected some crazy fog blasting through the trees, with the trees majorly swaying back and forth and hearing them getting ready to break. With crazy rolling fog with moonlight rays glaring through. The other major small gripe for me is that I expected more when the flashlight burned all the darkness away from a Taken, instead of a small pop, I expected a bigger boom type, or higher pitched explosion. The wolves were an amazing addition to the second game. Hopefully this gets fixed in the upcoming DLC. I hope we get to play as AC also! Can't wait for news! Let me know what you think?