Microsoft turned down Alan Wake 2 pitch with TV-style episodes for Quantum Break instead

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Microsoft turned down Alan Wake 2 pitch with TV-style episodes for Quantum Break instead
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Microsoft turned down Alan Wake 2 pitch with TV-style episodes for Quantum Break instead, while Control 'also started off as an Alan Wake 2 concept'.

Alan Wake 2 arrives this October more than than 13 years after Remedy's original game, and after a number of false starts at getting the sequel made.

Despite that, Microsoft liked the idea of a video game with live-action sections - and so the unique idea for Quantum Break was born. "And as a detail," he said,"in that pitch, I had the idea there would be live-action mini-episodes in-between the episodes of the game, and during that pitch at Microsoft, they were like, 'We are interested right now about this, but not really interested about going on with Alan Wake."

Was there anything from those original concepts, from the pre-American Nightmare days, that made its way into the Alan Wake 2 we'll get in a few months' time?"Very little," Lake said in reply. Microsoft's decision to focus on the episodic part of Lake's pitch makes for especially interesting reading in the context of the company's

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