Deadly Premonition coming to Australia, my coffee told me about it.

I am seriously excited, this is excellent news. The Director's Cut edition of Deadly Premonition will be available on Australian and New Zealand(ian? ese?) PlayStation 3s this April, Rising Star Games and All Interactive Entertainment have announced. The original version of Deadly Premonition - released on Xbox 360 in 2010 - never made it to our sunny shores, meaning April will be the first time we'll have a chance to play the game without importing it.




The Director's Cut is no mere PS3 port - it reworks the controls, updates the HD graphics, adds in a new scenario designed by Swery65 and has more than a hundred different bug fixes and improvements. It also has Move support, which is baffling. Which makes it a perfect fit for Deadly Premonition in a way.

Deadly Premonition follows an FBI agent named Francis York Morgan, who is investigating a ritualistic murder in the rural town of Greendale. He is also not quite right in the head, interrupting conversations with people he meets to talk to 'Zach' - a figment of his imagination. And when I say he interrupts conversations, I mean that. At the start of the game York is greeted by the town's law enforcement and right in the middle of his conversation he starts talking about them like they aren't there. It's crazy. And awesome.

Deadly Premonition has an open world, with a day and night cycle and weather system. You drive about the town of Greendale in first person, with York telling his invisible friend why he thinks movies were better in the eighties and weird crap like that. Enemies strike when York enters purple fog, walking backwards with blood oozing from their eyes and shoving their arm down York's throat. It's such a bizarre game. I can't wait.