Alan lake

Finished the first "episode" of Alan Wake today and it's so far rather interesting.

So far Alan and his wife take a vacation to a small town in what looks like Vermont or Maine, and right off the bat things get weird when they get directions and the key to the cabin they are renting by a shadowy old woman in a mourning dress who promptly disappears. Then after an argument with his wife Alan storms out of the house at night and he hears his wife scream, rushing back in he sees her in the lake behind the house. He dives in and then suddenly wakes up in a car accident a week later, with shadow monster people trying to kill him everywhere and pieces of a story he dosen't remember writing describing future events. At the end of the episode he manages to contact the local sheriff and finds out that the cabin and whole island he was staying in hasn't existed since the 70's.

The game also has 260 or so collectables, but unlike the orbs in Enslaved, they are easy to find with a guide and most are interesting even with out the achievements. One of the more interesting collectables is a TV program of a little twilight Zone type show where some one invents a machine that alters quantum probability so that nothing can harm him in that reality. The draw back of this is shown quickly in with each time the machine works it means there is a reality that it failed, and with such a failure rate it's only a matter of time before it fails in the featured reality too.