Certain enemies can decimate your health bar in an instant, and with health pickups thin on the ground in AWE, you can expect to find yourself failing when facing off against Hartman time and time again. I never really noticed it playing the main campaign, but having recently made my way though The Foundation and now AWE, Control‘s difficulty level can be all over the place. He’s also one of those bosses that has a surprise second health bar, and can restore his health while you’re dealing with the waves of enemies that he summons. Of course, you do get to finally put him down at the end of the DLC, but by that point you’re likely to be fed up with the whole affair. When you’re successful in your task, Hartman generally runs away, so you’ll need to find him yet again and go through the same rigmarole. All the while, enemies will occasionally spawn, and Hartman will pursue you. So, expect to spend plenty of time finding power sources and placing them into sockets before hitting a power switch to light up an area. It doesn’t help that nearly every time you meet him, your task is the same: plunged into darkness, you need to activate the lights to stop him from tearing you to bits. You’ll encounter Hartman numerous times during AWE in fact, I would argue too many times. And surprise, surprise, to make him vulnerable you need to face him in the light. It turns out he was being held at the Oldest House but has now been corrupted by the Hiss, turning him into a grotesque creature. There are some nice touches that Alan Wake fans will appreciate though, like instances of a gooey darkness that can only be neutralised by holding up light sources with your telekinesis powers.Īs you venture further into AWE‘s four-or-so hour main questline, you’re tasked with taking down Emil Hartman, someone who Alan Wake fans will no doubt remember. Offices, revolving bridges, warehouses – you’ve seen them, and fought in them, all before. Many of the environments you traverse during AWE are over familiar you’ll feel like you’re simply retreading old ground. To find out more, she heads into the depths of the investigations department, unaware that something monstrous awaits her. Approaching the sector elevator, Jesse sees a vision of Alan Wake and senses that he’s in danger. Like The Foundation before it, Control‘s AWE expansion begins in the Central Executive area of the Oldest House. But to get there, you’re going to have to endure hours of gameplay that never lives up to the brilliance of the main campaign. And ultimately, yes, it does provide what Alan Wake fans have been hoping for for years: a narrative string that hints at a return for the troubled author.
We already knew that Controland Alan Wake take place in the same universe, but AWE further intertwines them. As a fan of Alan Wake, I had high hopes for Control‘s second expansion, AWE.
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