Alan Wake (Xbox 360)

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Contents 1 Unlockables 1.1 Nightmare mode 2 Video 2.1 Walkthrough 2.2 Nightmare Pages 2.3 Manuscript Pages 2.4 Chests 2.5 Collectibles 3 Hints 3.1 Easy achievements 3.2 Episode 3: Missing toilets 3.3 Item limits 3.4 Force view change 3.5 Microsoft Tag 3.6 Max Payne references 3.7 Xbox 360 reference 4 Achievements 5 Avatar Awards 6 The Signal 7 The Writer 8 More...

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Nightmare mode

Successfully complete the game. In addition to increasing the combat difficulty, there will be sixteen additional Manuscript Pages to collect.

Video

Walkthrough

Nightmare Pages

Manuscript Pages

Chests

Collectibles

Hints

Easy achievements

Episode 3: Missing toilets

When you look for the keys to the car at the end when escaping from the nature center. Search the women's bathroom. None of the stalls have toilets.

Item limits

You can only carry the indicated maximum amounts of the following items.

Batteries: 20

Revolver rounds: 42

Shotgun shells (both types): 32

Rifle rounds: 25

Flaregun ammo: 12

Flares: 20

Flashbangs: 20

Force view change

If your character cannot be moved from the center of the screen, hold the camera view fully to the left or right until Alan Wake turns around completely. This will force his body to one side and you can see what is in front of him.

Microsoft Tag

Note: This requires a smartphone with the Microsoft Tag app. Play Episode 4 and find the modern art painting on the top floor of the lodge. Capture that image and read it with Microsoft Tag.

Max Payne references

• Search the bookshelves in Alan's New York apartment and other locations. One of the books is is "The Things I Want", which is a chapter title from Max Payne 2.

• During the flashback at the start of Episode 2, inside the apartment's master bedroom is a radio which broadcasts a winter storm warning and comments that it is the worst in New York history. This also happened in the original Max Payne, which was set in a blizzard-covered New York.
  

• Alan Wake's fictional protagonist in his novels, Alex Casey, has many similarities to Max Payne.
  

• In the Episode 6 flashback, Alan wakes up with a hangover and requires pain killers to stop the pain. The bottle is identical to the one that is used by Max Payne for his pain relief.
  

• In Episode 4 you meet a burned out game designer. The game designer rants about how they thought it was fun to include "mullets" and "mullet time" in their game. Soon producers wanted "mullet time" in everything. This is a reference to the "Bullet Time" ability both Max Payne games used.
  

• Two pages of the manuscript found in Episode 2 appear to be from Alan Wake's Novel: The Sudden Stop. The implication of the protagonist's wife and child matches the setup for Max Payne. The reference to painkillers could also call out to the use of painkillers to restore health in Max Payne.
  

• One of Wake's books is titled "Return to Sender". In Max Payne some of the televisions are showing episodes of the series Address Unknown, in what the television network is calling a "Return to Sender Marathon".
  

Xbox 360 reference

When the doctor asks you to go back to your room at the start of Chapter 4, search the room across the hallway from your door to find an Xbox 360.
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Achievements

Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.

Follow the Light (10 points): Take a night course of light education.

Nordic Walking (10 points): Take a walk through the logging area, meet one of the quirky locals.

Bright Falls' Finest (20 points): Call for help.

Boob Tube (5 points): See what's on TV.

Under a Thin Layer of Skin (10 points): Defy the park ranger.

Park Ranger (15 points): Enjoy the sounds and sights of Elderwood National Park.

Heavy Metal (10 points): Survive the bulldozer attack.

Iron Horse (10 points): Encounter a steam engine.

Wheels Within Wheels (20 points): Meet the kidnapper.

Medical Opinions (10 points): Listen to Hartman's recordings.

Child of the Elder God (10 points): Have a rock'n'roll moment without dropping to a low health state.

Perchance to Dream (20 points): Take a moment to reflect on past events.

Drink 'Em Both Up (10 points): Put de lime in de coconut twice.

Gatekeeper (10 points): Cut the power to the transformer yard.

The Lady of the Light (20 points): Discover the secret she guards.

Tornado Wrangler (20 points): Defeat the tornado.

Departure (40 points): Complete the game on Normal difficulty.

Hardboiled Writer (40 points): Complete the game on Hard difficulty.

Alan, Wake Up (50 points): Complete the game on Nightmare difficulty.

If It Flies, It Burns (20 points): Burn 1,000 birds.

They're Heeeeeere! (20 points): Inanimate objects shouldn't move of their own accord. Put a stop to this affront, oh, say, 20 times.

The Six-Gun Scribe (20 points): Defeat 100 Taken with the revolver.

Taken Season (20 points): Defeat 50 Taken with the hunting rifle.

It's Not Just a Typewriter Brand (20 points): Defeat 50 Taken with a shotgun.

What Light Through Yonder Window (20 points): Defeat 50 Taken with the flaregun, the way Shakespeare intended.

Thunder and Lightning (20 points): Defeat 50 Taken with flashbang grenades.

Collateral Carnage (20 points): Defeat 20 Taken with indirect means.

Come One, Come All (10 points): Kill four Taken with a single shot from the flaregun.

Sound and Fury (10 points): Kill four Taken with a single flashbang.

Two For the Price of One (10 points): Kill two Taken with a single shotgun blast.

Back! Back, I Say! (10 points): Save yourself with a flare.

Float Like a Butterfly (15 points): Perform a cinematic dodge.

Missed by a Mile (25 points): Perform a cinematic dodge 20 times.

Energized! (10 points): Use 100 batteries.

Let There Be Light (10 points): Get a generator running.

Carny (10 points): Knock over five can pyramids.

Meet the Deadline (30 points): In "Mirror Peak," make it from the Coal Mine Museum to Cauldron Lake in 30 minutes.

An Idyllic Small Town (30 points): Make it through "Night Falls in Bright Falls" in one go without dying or restarting even once.

Gunless Wonder (30 points): Make it to Cauldron Lake without firing a single shot in "On the Road to Cauldron Lake."

Right of Way (10 points): Drive over 15 Taken.

Finders Keepers (20 points): Discover 5 hidden chests.

Every Nook and Cranny (30 points): Discover all of the hidden chests.

Paging Mr. Wake (20 points): Find 25 manuscript pages.

Picking Up After Yourself (30 points): Find all of the manuscript pages in Normal mode.

Collector's Edition (50 points): Find all of the manuscript pages in the game, including the ones in Nightmare mode.

Damn Good Cup of Coffee (20 points): Discover 25 coffee thermoses.

Hypercaffeinated (30 points): Discover all coffee thermoses.

KBF-FM (30 points): Listen to all of the radio shows.

Couch Potato (30 points): Watch every single TV show.

Bright Falls Aficionado (30 points): Absorb every bit of local history and culture.

Avatar Awards

Complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding Avatar Award.

Jacket and Scarf - Male: Play the Limited Collector's Edition Bonus Disc.

Jacket and Scarf - Female: Play the Limited Collector's Edition Bonus Disc.

The Signal

The Writer

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