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Alan Wake's American Nightmare PC Technical Review

Product: Alan Wake's American Nightmare PC
Company: Remedy Entertainment, Ltd.
Author: Sean Ridgeley
Editor: Charles Oliver
Date: May 21st, 2012

Introduction, setup, requirements

Remedy Entertainment recently brought its acclaimed mystery-horror game Alan Wake to PC, many years after platform plans changed with publisher Microsoft. The port turned out to be solid on all fronts, and a hit for the developer, which self-funded this version of the game. The newly released Alan Wake's American Nightmare serves as a budget-priced counterpart to the main game, complete with a new story, and a wave-based timed mode. In this review, I'll be looking at how it holds up on PC in comparison.

Test Setup

• Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz 6-Core
• Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB DDR3-1600
• Graphics: XFX Radeon HD 6950 2GB
• Resolution: 1680x1050

System Requirements

• Minimum:
• OS: Windows XP SP2
• Processor: Dual Core 2GHz Intel or 2.8GHz AMD
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Hard Disk Space: 8GB of free space
• Video Card: DirectX 10 compatible with 512MB RAM
• DirectX®: 10
• Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
• Recommended:
• OS: Windows 7
• Processor: Quad Core 2.66GHz Intel or 3.2GHz AMD
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Hard Disk Space: 8GB of free space
• Video Card: DirectX 10 compatible or later with 1GB RAM
• DirectX®: 10
• Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible

With that out of the way, let's dig in and see what we’re really getting.