When comparing Friday the 13th: The Game vs Alan Wake, the Slant community recommends Alan Wake for most people. In the question“What are the best horror games for PC?” Alan Wake is ranked 9th while Friday the 13th: The Game is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Alan Wake is:
The story of an author trying to break out of a writers block slump, who is trying to meet a deadline, decides to travel to the countryside with his wife in order to relax. Of course the wife is kidnapped as weird events start following the protagonist around. This is just the outline, but it is very fleshed out through great voice acting as well as interesting TV like scripted segments that break up the gameplay. Overall it shows a lot of polish and makes for a story that is intriguing, that player wants to stick around to resolve.
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Pros
Pro Communication between players is encouraged and enhances the gameplay
Communication between the teenagers (players who are playing as Jason's victims) is key to surviving and outsmarting Jason. For example, if a player has found the fuel for the car and two other players have found the keys and car engine, they can all communicate and decide to meet at the car in order to escape.
Pro Perfectly captures the feel of what it must be like to be Jason
Friday the 13th perfectly captures the feeling of playing as an extremely menacing character. You methodically hunt other players and gain more and more supernatural powers as time goes by. Some of these powers include Sense (similar to Eagle Vision in Assassin's Creed) or Morph, which lets you teleport immediately across the map.
Pro Six different Jasons are playable, each one of them with advantages and disadvantages
There are six types of Jasons to choose from, each one of them based on a type of Jason that appeared in one of the movies. There's even the original Jason from the second movie with a paper bag on his head.
The differences are not only cosmetic, each Jason has his own advantages and disadvantages. Part 3 Jason for example can run but has very weak stun resistance. This also changes the way all players approach the game, whether you are playing as Jason or the teenagers, you have to adapt your strategy to the type of Jason you are playing as or playing against.
Pro Immersive story
The story of an author trying to break out of a writers block slump, who is trying to meet a deadline, decides to travel to the countryside with his wife in order to relax. Of course the wife is kidnapped as weird events start following the protagonist around. This is just the outline, but it is very fleshed out through great voice acting as well as interesting TV like scripted segments that break up the gameplay. Overall it shows a lot of polish and makes for a story that is intriguing, that player wants to stick around to resolve.
Cons
Con Playing as one of the victims may get boring quickly
Playing as one of the teenagers who are being hunted by Jason is not as fun as playing Jason himself. There are roughly four ways you can win the match: escape, survive the night, call the cops or kill Jason.
The last one is the hardest to achieve since it requires a great degree of communication between players. The one you will probably choose more often is escaping which consists of finding different objects that help you make your escape (things like keys, fuel, ropes, etc.). The things you need are randomly scattered each match across the map and you have to look in every drawer, cupboard, or box to find what you need. Unfortunately that's what you will be doing 90% of the time when playing as one of the victims.
Con Quite glitchy
The game is plagued by glitches. Especially collision detection has a lot of problems. It's not uncommon to see players walk through walls or hover in the air.
Con You can't choose whether you can play as Jason or one of the victims
At the start of the game, each player's role is chosen at random. This means that you can't get to choose whether to play as Jason or a victim and there's roughly a 12.5% chance to play as Jason before a game starts.
Con Late game drags
Sadly the late game story and gameplay drags a bit, making for a title that is stretched just a bit to long as the written and played scenarios get more and more outrageous.