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So Brash Entertainment were publishing a videogame from also ran developers Zombie Studios (perhaps best well known for Spec Ops series).
Naturally, nobody was excited.
Then Brash Entertainment went tits up and Konami stepped in to publish it and things get a little bit less hopeless. Konami were reportedly looking to make it another big horror franchise, and sent out developers to Zombie Studios to help shape the game into something more worthy of the Konami name.
To help shape the game into something a little more Silent Hill perhaps?
It looks that way, although of course the Silent Hill brand is in no way a guarantee of quality. The words 'spiritual successor' were bandied about, and in no way do I believe that, but of course I would like to believe it.
The screen shots certainly look Silent Hill-esque in a very Saw kind of way.
The game uses Unreal Engine 3 for those that keep those kind of scores and is released today on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A windows version follows later this month. Hopefully it won't be another crap port from Konami given that it's using UE3, but frankly, I've never seen a Konami PC port worth a shit.
That was pretty frank.
So what of the game? Well it's a very puzzle heavy (though not without combat) survival horror. You play as Detective Tapp (Danny Glover's character from the original Saw). Jigsaw has healed Tapp from the wounds he suffered in the shotgun trap in the movie and set him up in his own 'game' in an asylum filled naturally with traps, psychotic people and at times other innocents in various devices that you have to try and free.
You won't be cutting off your own fingers or gouging out your own eyes to progress in other words, but you may be cutting off other peoples bits.
The story is provided by Leigh and Whannell who created the movie franchise and have over seen the sequels. It is set between Saw 1 and Saw 2, and reportedly features a few other characters from the original Saw which would make a lot of sense.
The only confirmed voice actor that I've found is Tobin Bell, who is naturally playing Jigsaw, so I'm expecting a lot of 'soundalikes' for everyone else, but we'll see.
Hell, if you enjoyed any Silent Hill game you never let the voice acting get in the way of your enjoyment before.
Konami's page on the game
As far as I know, there's been no reviews and no hype at all here on GAF, understandably given the pedigree... but I'm hoping that there might be something to this title after all. I'm hoping it's a sleeper hit, and I'm hoping that we can collect any reviews that start to crop up, be they professional or real gamer's opinions.
I won't be picking it up today, but if things look good by the end of the day, I'll be getting it tomorrow and trying to fit it into my extremely crowded catalog of stuff I'm currently playing.
Have Konami saved it? Have Zombie Studios nailed it?
That's what I'm here to find out.
Naturally, nobody was excited.
Then Brash Entertainment went tits up and Konami stepped in to publish it and things get a little bit less hopeless. Konami were reportedly looking to make it another big horror franchise, and sent out developers to Zombie Studios to help shape the game into something more worthy of the Konami name.
To help shape the game into something a little more Silent Hill perhaps?
It looks that way, although of course the Silent Hill brand is in no way a guarantee of quality. The words 'spiritual successor' were bandied about, and in no way do I believe that, but of course I would like to believe it.
The screen shots certainly look Silent Hill-esque in a very Saw kind of way.
The game uses Unreal Engine 3 for those that keep those kind of scores and is released today on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A windows version follows later this month. Hopefully it won't be another crap port from Konami given that it's using UE3, but frankly, I've never seen a Konami PC port worth a shit.
That was pretty frank.
So what of the game? Well it's a very puzzle heavy (though not without combat) survival horror. You play as Detective Tapp (Danny Glover's character from the original Saw). Jigsaw has healed Tapp from the wounds he suffered in the shotgun trap in the movie and set him up in his own 'game' in an asylum filled naturally with traps, psychotic people and at times other innocents in various devices that you have to try and free.
You won't be cutting off your own fingers or gouging out your own eyes to progress in other words, but you may be cutting off other peoples bits.
The story is provided by Leigh and Whannell who created the movie franchise and have over seen the sequels. It is set between Saw 1 and Saw 2, and reportedly features a few other characters from the original Saw which would make a lot of sense.
The only confirmed voice actor that I've found is Tobin Bell, who is naturally playing Jigsaw, so I'm expecting a lot of 'soundalikes' for everyone else, but we'll see.
Hell, if you enjoyed any Silent Hill game you never let the voice acting get in the way of your enjoyment before.
Konami's page on the game
As far as I know, there's been no reviews and no hype at all here on GAF, understandably given the pedigree... but I'm hoping that there might be something to this title after all. I'm hoping it's a sleeper hit, and I'm hoping that we can collect any reviews that start to crop up, be they professional or real gamer's opinions.
I won't be picking it up today, but if things look good by the end of the day, I'll be getting it tomorrow and trying to fit it into my extremely crowded catalog of stuff I'm currently playing.
Have Konami saved it? Have Zombie Studios nailed it?
That's what I'm here to find out.
