Floor management to Main Tom, Treatment Leisure is eradicating David Bowie’s “Area Oddity” from Alan Wake’s credit and changing it with a model new unique tune. Treatment introduced that the music can be eliminated in an replace on Sept. 10, one thing required as a consequence of “modifications in licensing.” Bummer!
The brand new music known as “Unusual Moons,” from Alan Wake and Management composer Petri Alanko. Alanko stated in a publish on X the music is “written from a standpoint of an astronaut who does have fairly just a few issues” — however has made peace with it. He tailored the music from a bit of music initially tied to a minimize Alan Wake degree that was eliminated “lengthy earlier than launch.” The music doesn’t seem like obtainable on-line simply but, however epicgamejourney has reached out to Treatment for extra info.
Treatment’s path this time round is a aid to future Alan Wake gamers — no pulling something down, like what occurred in 2017 to Alan Wake and, notably, this yr with Yager Improvement’s Spec Ops: The Line. 2K Video games stated it was pulled as a consequence of licensing points.
After all, it’s nonetheless unhappy to see the Bowie music go — it was a memorable touchstone that bookended the primary Alan Wake sport. There are only a few video games through which folks truly keep in mind what the tip credit are set to. Nonetheless, Treatment’s chosen the absolute best path ahead in opting to switch the music. Alan Wake followers get new music!
