Alan Wake

Title: Alan Wake
Platforms: Xbox 360
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0MsWKJVQ84
Soundtrack clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rqbvEfXJ1Q&feature=related
ESRB information: T for blood, language, use of alchohol and drugs, violence.

I'm sitting at my computer two hours after beating one of my favorite games I've ever played: Alan Wake. I just drank a whole can of monster and don't feel good, I can't think very clearly but still I can explain how amazing this game was.
    You play as a writer named Alan Wake(of course). Wake and his wife Alice are going on vacation, they go to the rented cabin on the lake, after Alan and Alice have an argument, he walks outside but then the lights go off in the cabin and Alice starts screaming, he runs inside and she's gone, the railing on the back porch is broken to look like she was thrown through it into the lake, Alan jumps in after her and somehow wakes up in his car with a nasty bump in his head. A strange dream told Alan how to fight people possesed by darkness called Taken, but Alan finds out that it wasn't just a dream when he finds himself shining a flashlight at Taken to weaken them and then shooting them, he soon finds that a week had past between when he jumped into the lake and when he woke up in his crashed car, he not only lost Alice but also a week of his life.
    The game is supposed to be scary, to me I wasn't scared shooting down Taken with a revolver or shotgun but nothing made me more freaked out than being out of ammo or low on health.
    Wake's agent named Barry flies in, he helps with the fight to find out how to end the dark attacks.
    Shortly after waking up in the car, Alan starts finding pages to a book he doesn't remember writing, but what happens on a page starts coming true, either a page he finds is of something that already happened or is going to.
    Alan Wake is made by Microsoft Game Studios and Remedy, they created great cutscene animations, buitiful nature setting and an unpredictable story line that stays with you long after the strange ending. 9 out of 10 is what I'm giving to this fantastic work of art.

Pictures from IGN.