Nearing the end of Alan Wake. Certainly one of the dullest games I have ever played. Very very repetative. A story and atmosphere, which if you don't buy into immmediately, will just irritate you between rinse and repeat torch/shoot/kill baddie killings. The only point it gets slightly interesting is the act where you get two NPC helpers, and this is only because you get a little bit of interaction, AND you get to have a breather from the above rinse and repeat cycles, you just have to torch this time and save the chore of having to kill the enemies yourself. Very uninspiring enemies, including random inanimate objects thorwn at you for no reason, piles of stationary black goo(?!?) and swarms of crows. The weapons also suck. I am looking forward to finishing this game so I can forget about it.