http://megaderived.co.uk Hyperbole! Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:46:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "I'm Alan Wake, and I'm a writer" narrates the eponymous protagonist before a sweeping camera shot showcases Bright Falls, roughly thirty minutes before he starts exploding the town's shadow-covered inhabitants with a combination of torchlight and plenty of bullets. Crikey. In my experience the ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20100221/alan-wake/ What a difference a year makes. Back in the archaic days of June 2009 - back before the iPad, Jedward and when Wii's were only available in white - Star Ocean: The Last Hope seemed like a decent investment for the Xbox 360 crowd. ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20100216/star-ocean-the-last-hope-international/ The ocean? Brilliant. I bet there are all sorts of things to kill down there, like the batty inhabitants of an underwater capitalist society free of religion and governments. Maybe there's some mutant sharks you need to shoot with harpoon guns, or even underwater ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20100215/endless-ocean-2-adventures-of-the-deep/ Nobody has actually read the whole of Inferno, though many Literature students keep a copy on their shelf to look clever. Dante Alighieri's fourteenth-century poem opens with Dante, a middle-age man, pondering his existence in a dark wood. Pretty boring. Dante's Inferno, the 2010 ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20100212/dantes-inferno/ If the dream match you've been waiting for since Street Fighter came about in the late eighties was a scuffle between a stable of Capcom classics and some stars from huge-in-the-seventies anime company Tatsunoko, you're probably one of the people who petitioned for the ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20100204/tatsunoko-vs-capcom/ When the 2010 Winter Olympics finally kick off this month there's no doubt in my mind the land will be awash with white, crunchy snow. Fun snow. Not like snow here, which is only fun for two hours before it turns brown, forces everyone ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20100204/vancouver-2010/         Few people would have rallied for the return of high-spirited frat-pair Salem and Rios after the mess the two made in their chest-bumping, fist-pumping, mass murdering lads tour through the first Army of Two back in 2008. But return they have, complete with a ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20100128/army-of-two-the-40th-day-2/ Returning to Resonance of Fate, after previewing it last August, was like having a good time with an old friend I didn't realise I'd missed. Tri-Ace's steampunk fantasy continues to hiss, puff and chug out a universe that, whilst familiar, is continually endearing. ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20100119/resonance-of-fate/ There's a point near the start of Dark Void where Will, the game's hero, unsuccessfully leaps off a collapsing bridge, his outstretched arm mere inches away from solid ground. He's caught by Ava, the game's female love interest, in what is clearly intended as ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20100118/dark-void/ It will probably come in very handy, the game says. It's referring to the Spirit Flute, and is making the understatement of the year. The latest Zelda might happen to be called Spirit Tracks, and its imagery might be suffused with steamy, quasi-industrial iconography, ... http://megaderived.co.uk/20091212/the-legend-of-zelda-spirit-tracks/