Microsoft’s answer to Sony’s Uncharted franchise looks like it will finally see the light of day… which is good for a game that uses light as a weapon. As cinematic as any game I’ve seen, Alan Wake puts you in the titles character’s shoe as he struggles with a waking nightmare in which light becomes your main weapon. The Sony commercial about how much like a movie Uncharted is seems to have influenced Alan Wake. Wake is a writer who moves to a small town with his wife to relax and is thrown into a nightmare scenario. Seems like a pretty cool premise and anything that gets my wife to watch me play a video game is okay in my book.

Check out the trailer below and let me know if you think it’ll be a buy or rent…