Nov 1, 2008
Category: Movies, Music, Video Games
Tags: alien, alone in the dark, bioshock, dead space, halloween, night of the living dead, psycho, resident evil 4, silent hill homecoming, the rocky horror picture show, the silence of the lambs
Jack Skellington's At Work This Weekend.
It’s actually gone Hallowe’en - dang my pesky time-wasting habbits, I didn’t finish this in time! - but here’s what I think you should be doing entertainmenty-wise (in no particular order).
You Should Play:
You Should Watch:
You Should Listen To:
Only one track should be played on Hallowe’en.
Feel free to add any contributions.
Jul 21, 2008
Siren: Blood Curse Coming To Playstation 3 Store Thursday 24th July.
This is probably a game that hovers way off the radar on most peoples release retina but I’m actually pretty damn excited about it. After hearing about the game in such a positive view over on Eurogamer my excitement could only grow and grow.
Allow me to first of all state that I am simply craving Resident Evil 5 at this point. I want that game so much it aches. But given that it’s not out until March ‘09, I’m making do with every little tidbit of information released about horror games coming before it. Alone In The Dark was disappointing and Silent Hill: Homecoming is still a good few months away so Siren is going to have to tide me over.
Set to be released as episodic content this coming Thursday (24th) Siren is an (unfortunately) Americanised survival horror game that pits you in the shoes of 7 film students in the middle of some village filled with zombies. Having played the demo I can tell you that this game is ridiculously dark - and given that zombies are attracted to the only form of light in the game, your flashlight, you will actually spend big portions of the game in the complete darkness. I can announce right here, right now, that moving through a big area, with no light and zombies around every corner is particularly fucking scary.
The game is very objective based and particularly story driven - putting you into the eyes of a different character for each episode. Given it’s story driven nature the presentation is decent but I’m a little worried about the objective based gameplay. In what I’ve played the game doesn’t appear to let the player explore for ones self - instead setting you objectives and keeping you moving.
I’m yet to hear of a price but I am told that each of the four downloads can be expected to last anywhere between 1.5-2 hours and so a price point of £4.99 would seem extremely reasonable to me.
Expect a review of the game closer to it’s release.
