In Alan Wake 2, the titular writer attempts to escape the Dark Place, a nightmarish, shape-shifting version of New York, by writing pages and pages of different escape attempts. And some of these stories take place in… Night Springs.
Night Springs… a fictional town, full of thrills and weirdness, where the familiar becomes strange. Night Springs… a TV show that Alan Wake wrote for. Night Springs… the first expansion for Alan Wake 2, the award-winning survival horror game from Remedy Entertainment, releases tomorrow, June 8, for PlayStation 5!
In its three standalone episodes, the Night Springs expansion presents three ways in which Alan Wake attempted to escape the endless loops of the Dark Place. You will play three characters from the world of Alan Wake.
While familiar at first glance, they are echoes of their former selves in Night Springs, archetypes based on characters players have already encountered.
Step into the shoes of the number one fan, who bears a striking resemblance to waitress Rose Marigold, and fight the shadows in search of truth and love with your trusty shotgun at your side. As an actor, who may be called “Shawn Ashmore” in some realities and “Sheriff Timothy Breaker” in others, you will assume the role of Time Breaker and defeat the villain who is looking for you. And in the episode North Star, discover the secrets of coffee and the cosmic mysteries of caffeine as the brother, who may seem familiar to those who know Jesse Faden, director of the Federal Bureau of Control.
In Night Springs, players will fight and fight their way through familiar but transformed locations. Expect more dream logic, twists and turns than only a sci-fi adventure written by Alan Wake can offer, and even more experimentation with different types of media, like a playable arcade game and a comic book.
Trophy hunters and completionists can look forward to 12 new challenges in Night Springs. Share your progress with us on social media using the hashtag #NightSprings!
Night Springs will be available with the Alan Wake 2 Expansion Pass, which is included in both the Digital Deluxe Edition and the upcoming physical Deluxe and Collector’s Editions of Alan Wake 2. PlayStation players who would like to pre-order one or the other of the physical editions can do so from June 8. If you own the Digital Standard Edition, you have the option to upgrade to the Deluxe Edition to access the expansions.
Night Springs is not the end, however. The Lake House, the second and final expansion for Alan Wake 2, tells the story of a mysterious government facility on the shores of Cauldron Lake, and the moment when secret research conducted there went horribly wrong. Expect the Lake House expansion later this year!
View and download image
Also available tomorrow – Photo Mode! Everyone who owns Alan Wake 2 will receive it as a free update. In the game’s story, Alice Wake, Alan’s wife, is a photographer, and as such, Alan Wake 2’s photo mode settings – such as f-stop, focal length, etc. are changed. – were taken from the art of photography. and use photographic values.
As a team, we learned a lot while developing the photo mode for Control and as a result, we are very excited to be able to offer players new features in the photo mode of Alan Wake 2. You can now play with the lighting and use several types of lighting such as a spotlight, the in-game flashlight, and of course the essential and classic camera flash. This gives all virtual photographers the tools to create photos that can have a radically different vibe and resemble the aesthetic of what you see in the game.
View and download image
Of course, we couldn’t overlook the opportunity to embrace the game’s visual themes in Photo mode as well. You’ll have several presets at your disposal that you can quickly select, including ones that will allow you to recreate the look of the evidence photos you can find on Saga’s Case Board. Photo mode comes with several different filters and frames, including postcard frames from different locations in the game.
View and download image
Look around and capture your impressions of the Pacific Northwest and New York’s rainy, nighttime Dark Place. We can’t wait to see what you come up with! Tag your photos with the hashtag #AW2Photomode on social media to share them with the community.
