Default Prime's Charles Battersby takes a look at the similarities between Alan Wake and Deadly Premonition, and tries to figure out whether or not Deadly Premonition is worth playing.

"Previously on The Backlog: I’d taken a job as a writer for a video game website where I offered pithy observations about old games. I had wanted to write a piece about how much I loved Alan Wake, the cult-hit Xbox game about an overly verbose writer who was trapped in one of his own stories. Unfortunately, the game didn’t fit in with the premise of my column. In The Backlog I was supposed to comment on games that I hadn’t gotten around to playing yet, but I’d already played Alan Wake over and over again, running through the virtual town of Bright Falls time and time again like a hamster trapped on a Monopoly board. I’d written myself into a corner, and the writing assignments were piling up; I guess that’s what I deserve for calling my column The Backlog. With my deadline baring down on me like a freight train full of unfinished manuscripts I had to find a way to put down 800 words on Alan Wake but still talk about some game I hadn’t played yet. I poured myself a cup of coffee – black as midnight on a moonless night – and looked at my game shelf. There, wedged between unopened copies of Red Dead Redemption and Halo: ODST was this hamster’s Get Out Of Jail Free card; an old game called Deadly Premonition."

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