Summary
From the moment The Game Awards 2023’s nominees were first announced,Alan Wake 2immediately became the show’s underdog. With the fight for the topGame of the Year spotarguably already taken byThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomandBaldur’s Gate 3, manyAlan Wake 2fans looked to the rest of its nominated categories for hope, and thankfully, there were a surprising number of nominations for Remedy’s long-awaited survival horror sequel.
From Best Game Direction to Best Narrative to Best Score and Music and a few others in between,Alan Wake 2was nominated for a total of eight highly prestigious Game Awards. Fans knew all too well thatAlan Wake 2probably wasn’t going to win Game of the Year, but when it came to the rest, it stood as good of a chance of winning as any other nominee. The Game Awards' final results mostly went down how fans expected, withBaldur’s Gate 3sweeping most categories, but one of the bigger surprises of the night was just how many awardsAlan Wake 2managed to walk away with.
Every Game Awards Nomination for Alan Wake 2
Every 2023 Game Award Alan Wake 2 Won
Out of the eight totalGame Awards categoriesthatAlan Wake 2was nominated in, Remedy managed to secure victory in three of those. While the actual act of winning those categories isn’t surprising, withAlan Wake 2being a truly exceptional video game experience, what is surprising is the sheer level of competitionAlan Wake 2managed to conquer in order to achieve these coveted awards.
Arguably,Alan Wake 2’s most impressive win of the night came right toward the end of The Game Awards 2023. Going up against juggernauts likeBaldur’s Gate 3,Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,Super Mario Bros. Wonder, andMarvel’s Spider-Man 2,Alan Wake 2managed to walk away with the Best Game Direction trophy atThe Game Awards 2023. Though Remedy’s Sam Lake was hurried off-stage after just 30 seconds, this moment is undoubtedly a highlight of Remedy’s entire history, with the studio’s wholly unique shared vision being the thing that secured them this award.
Another slightly surprising win forAlan Wake 2was the Best Narrative Game Award. Before the ceremony, many fans were convinced that this would be yet another category thatBaldur’s Gate 3would sweep, with its player-led narrative being one of the RPG’s biggest and best features. ButAlan Wake 2’s expertly-delivered dual narrativewas deemed to be the better story this year, andAlan Wake 2fans are ecstatic with the result.
The final Game Awards trophy thatAlan Wake 2managed to walk away with was the one for Best Art Direction. Another incredibly stacked category with gorgeous games likeHi-Fi Rush,Zelda, andMario Bros. Wonder, this was an impressive win forAlan Wake 2, and definitely another deserved one. One ofAlan Wake 2’s most striking features is its realistic art style, featuring cutting-edge lighting effects, character and face models, and environmental textures, all of which come together to makeAlan Wake 2one of the best-looking games of all time. Pair this with Remedy’s unique penchant for live-action integration, andAlan Wake 2’s art direction is like no other this year.
Alan Wake 2
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A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by Pacific Northwest wilderness. Saga Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases arrives to investigate the murders. Anderson’s case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that starts to come true around her.Alan Wake, a lost writer trapped in a nightmare beyond our world, writes a dark story in an attempt to shape the reality around him and escape his prison. With a dark horror hunting him, Wake is trying to retain his sanity and beat the devil at his own game.Anderson and Wake are two heroes on two desperate journeys in two separate realities, connected at heart in ways neither of them can understand: reflecting each other, echoing each other, and affecting the worlds around them.Fueled by the horror story, supernatural darkness invades Bright Falls, corrupting the locals and threatening the loved ones of both Anderson and Wake. Light is their weapon—and their safe haven — against the darkness they face. Trapped in a sinister horror story where there are only victims and monsters, can they break out to be the heroes they need to be?
