New Biohazard 4 Movie

The MagicBox has posted links from the new TGS Biohazard 4 trailer. There are High Quality and Low Quality versions.

The interesting thing about the video is that, besides looking amazingly good, it also shows off a new enemy: a shadow man with a giant meat hook attached to a chain. He looks a whole lot scarier than the zombies we’ve all come to know and love. Plus, it looks like this game will join the flashlight-equals-scariness craze, which I think is probably a good thing.

Siren Impressions

I’ve found some info on Siren on the web:

  • GameSpot has some interesting impressions and game play details.
  • Game Watch has some info, but it is in Japanese.

IGN posted an article a while back with the following details:

Looking like a forgotten chapter in the Silent Hill series, the GC demo of the creepy horror tale featured three playable levels. In one stage, players slip into the role of an old Japanese man named Akira Shimura and had to explore an abandoned, zombie-infested mine and reach the street to the neighboring town of Hirasaki. Another level features a Japanese teacher trying to help a little girl escape from a rundown school. The mood of the game is extremely scary. The latter stage is set at night, with only a flashlight illuminating the dirty and dilapidated corridors of the old school. The developers are employing every trick in the book to make players drop their controllers, such as loud and sudden noises, subliminal flashes, a grainy video filter, and of course plenty of walking bloodied corpses.

Kuon Added

From Software has announced Kuon, which I’ve added to the database. Here is the rundown from The Magic Box:

From Software announced a new PlayStation 2 horror adventure game called Kuon, this is one of the new title From Software will be revealed at Tokyo Game Show. The story takes place in a haunted mansion in the Heiankyo era, 11th century of Japan. You play as a 15 year old girl who enters the mansion with four amateur exorcists, to search for the girl’s mission father and sister. The girl must use different kinds of seals to defeat the evil spirits in the mansion.

Fistful of Boomstick

I managed to complete Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick yesterday. It was a fun (if somewhat shallow) brawler. The fighting engine is actually quite well done, but the game is hampered by asinine sub-quests and obscure goals. However, Boomstick uses the Evil Dead license excellently, and is one of the best examples of successful movie-to-game conversions that I’ve seen.

Quality

I finally finished Silent Hill 3 this evening. I think it is the best game in this genre (perhaps in any genre) that I’ve ever played. In addition to looking amazing, it turned out to be literate, complicated, exciting, and extraordinarily scary. This series continues to push survival horror in new directions.

With the completion of SH 3, my Statistics page tells me I am 38% complete with the quest! This is great news… a few more games and I’ll be half way there. Of course, the release of games like Fatal Frame 2 later this year will hinder my progress a little, but that certainly isn’t a bad thing. Next I am thinking about playing either Evil Dead or the second Clocktower game.