Platform: Xbox 360
Developer: Access Games
Publisher: Ignition Entertainment
# of Players: 1
Rating: M (Mature)
Official Site
Score: A-
Deadly Premonition just might be a tipping point for certain gamers who don't quite trust mainstream review sites for any number of reasons. Sure, if you apply the now boring "by today's standards..." mantra to every aspect of the game, it deserves a low score for failing to have stunning graphics, online multiplayer modes, flawless controls and so forth and so on. On the other hand, if you approach DP as a game experience that's going to be (outside of yearly sequels and games trying to copy other games) wholly unique... well, hell - welcome to paradise. Granted, it's a twisted paradise of survival horror, intentional comedy, open world exploration, police car driving and a main character that's crazy as a herd of cows on a crack binge.
