I remember Achy's retrospective on Splatterhouse from the old site, at least i think it was Achy's.
Anyway, on that thread a new game was mentioned & since i've not really heard much about it, now we have a trailer.
Quote from: GamerMan316 on October 08, 2009, 12:40:26 PM
I remember Achy's retrospective on Splatterhouse from the old site, at least i think it was Achy's.
Anyway, on that thread a new game was mentioned & since i've not really heard much about it, now we have a trailer.
Cool I have another Rock trailer ;D When I read the post the Rock video was still on.
I like SplatterHouse. I played it once when I was younger but didnt do very well
i edited it just as you posted
apparantly the studio responsible for the game have now closed down.
http://gaygamer.net/2009/09/another_one_bites_the_dust_bot.html
It doesn't look very good tbh
Quote from: Failed on October 08, 2009, 01:16:00 PM
It doesn't look very good tbh
But it does look better than I expected. lol
Have to agree with Failed, not too impressed.
Kind of looks like Prince of Persia's clunky ugly little brother.
ME HULK! ME SMASH! ME NOT GREEN! WEAR MASK! TAKE STEROIDS! ME MAN ABOUT THE SPLATTERHOUSE!
the splatterhouse games were great, but like most classics it should be left in the past.
Splatterhouse shoes are like a Terror Mask for your feet
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/11/splattershoe1124.jpg)
Namco Bandai may have trouble getting a next-gen update to Splatterhouse out the door, but the company seems to have had no problem developing a new iteration of the franchise for the your feet platform.
Namco partnered with Globe Shoes to create these sneakers, purportedly based on those worn by Rick in the game. To be nitpicky, the real-world shoes don't feature the green accent found on the in-game versions -- and the Splatterhouse logo on the shoes would make for a really weird coincidence if Rick happened to be wearing them when he went into, you know, the Splatterhouse.
Then again, the Globe version makes up for the inconsistency by coming with a T-shirt, which is something Rick could use. The shoes are available from Namco's shop in limited quantities for $79.99 a pair.
New Splatterhouse Also Throws In The Original 16-bit Trilogy
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Namco Bandai's gory re-imagining of the 16-bit side-scrolling classic Splatterhouse will come with an unlockable bonus: three 16-bit side-scrolling classic Splatterhouse games.
The latest issue of PlayStation: the Official Magazine brings good news for the serious Splatterhouse fan. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game will feature the original arcade version of Splatterhouse—the "uncensored Japanese" version, they say—plus Splatterhouse 2 and Splatterhouse 3, originally released on the Sega Genesis. That's a perfect opportunity to compare the new, incredibly violent Splatterhouse to the comparatively tame 16-bit originals.
How will you unlock those? Namco Bandai apparently isn't releasing that info yet, at least not to the PlayStation centric magazine.
Quote from: GamerMan316 on April 10, 2010, 09:53:08 AM
How will you unlock those? Namco Bandai apparently isn't releasing that info yet, at least not to the PlayStation centric magazine.
If they are actual "unlockables" then I am sold on this game.
If they are paid DLC "keys" then Namco can suck my Bandai.
Quote from: nCogNeato on April 11, 2010, 12:01:03 AM
Quote from: GamerMan316 on April 10, 2010, 09:53:08 AM
How will you unlock those? Namco Bandai apparently isn't releasing that info yet, at least not to the PlayStation centric magazine.
then Namco can suck my Bandai.
LOL :D
lol, quick someone call .gifMan
Quote from: Failed on April 11, 2010, 07:08:10 PM
lol, quick someone call .gifMan
.gifMan isn't here right now but I am sure he will return with an awesome post soon ;)
15 seconds. 15 seconds. That's the amount of time spent between putting the Splatterhouse disk into your console and hearing your first squealing, crashing power chord.
And that, in turn, is evidence that Splatterhouse is probably in good hands. Namco Bandai understands what this franchise is all about. It's not concerned with action bubbles, non-linear storytelling or breaking the fourth wall (except, perhaps, with a shoulder charge). It's not even that bothered about 30 seconds of fun, endlessly repeated - it's happy to boil it down to five or six seconds.
The original Splatterhouse was an eminently level-headed gorefest, the first game ever to receive a parental warning, and the first game ever to play a pivotal role in a Jeff Bridges movie (it crops up in Fearless, somewhere between a terrifying plane crash and an even more terrifying attempt to woo Rosie Perez). It's a blood-soaked, giblet-filled, brain-dead exploitation romp, and very little has changed for this reboot. It's 15 seconds until your first power chord, then, and no seconds until the next one.
Um, story. In Splatterhouse you play as Rick Taylor, an average college student until an unpleasant run-in with a necrobiologist and a tricksy deal-making demon leaves him looking a bit like Bane out of Batman. For reasons I missed because I was surreptitiously eating the world's smallest donut - press events, eh? - Rick's girlfriend's been pinched, and he finds himself knee-deep in hellish monsters.
(http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/1/0/1/5/1/8/ss_preview_splat1.jpg.jpg)
These monsters are everywhere: hanging from the ceilings or oozing out of the wall like scarlet Polyfilla. They even fit over Rick's face in the shape of the possessed mask he's apparently made some kind of Faustian pact with.
Narrative, though - and this is just a guess - probably isn't that important with this one. Splatterhouse is firmly aimed at the guilty pleasure market, and you can see that in its grimly comic visuals, its brutal, nerve-splintering finishers, and its joyfully calcified rhythm.
This is the kind of game in which you lumber from one ghastly room to the next, killing everything that gets in your way, before being given the opportunity to move on and repeat the whole process. There are some extremely simple puzzles to solve along the way - that's if impaling four demons on four spikes to open a door even counts as a puzzle - and regular interruptions from boss monsters, but not much else.
(http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/1/0/1/5/1/8/ss_preview_splat2.jpg.jpg)
It's big stupid fun, in other words, and there's hardly anything wrong with that - not least because Splatterhouse looks like it actually might deliver on its very simple remit. Character models are huge and filled with nasty, slippery detailing, the environments are pleasantly unpleasant, and the camera knows when to move in nice and close so you can see every bursting vein.
Combos offer the normal blend of light and heavy attacks alongside grabs and throws, but you can also pull off special Splatter Kills when you're on a hot streak. They're not finished yet, so they currently look like a weird mishmash of placeholder animation and a Grateful Dead T-shirt my uncle Mike once owned, but I'd expect plenty of dismemberment and other comic mishap in the finished pieces.
The closest Splatterhouse gets to making a concession to modern videogame preoccupations is with very light RPG elements as you collect blood from all your kills to unlock new moves and level up a little. Blood flows more freely if you're pulling off the flashier stuff, by the looks of it, so the game's real narrative is more honestly about transitioning from coping with a room of gruesome monsters to the point where you see each massive brawl as an opportunity for some nasty showboating.
Weapons will mix things up, but they seem to be dropped in and then taken out very quickly. With a mix of bludgeoners, like lead pipes and 2x4s, through the likes of blades and projectile weapons, right up to the iconic skull crushers like chainsaws and a shotgun, they should give you a nice break from kneeing the undead in the groin over and over again.
Bosses, meanwhile, are tossed in every 20 minutes or so, if the demo we're shown is any indicator, and they're predictably horrible. Big penis-snake thing with a face that looks like Thom Yorke's brain-damaged cousin? No problem. Toothed vagina with an eye in it? Can do. Everything you're faced with is about a week or two past the point where a band-aid would have been really helpful, and everything comes with attack patterns to spot and weak areas to exploit.
Occasionally, Splatterhouse makes a surprisingly convincing transition to two dimensions as you race through side-scrolling corridors, jumping over spike pits and ducking whirling blades. But, really, if it's variety you're after, you've bought the wrong game.
(http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/1/1/0/1/5/1/8/ss_preview_splat3.jpg.jpg)
What's potentially refreshing about Splatterhouse, then, is just how unevolved it is. Namco is channelling another era's horror - the VHS era, to be precise, with its misleadingly brilliant cover art, badly-lit rubber suit set-pieces and endless parade of summer camps. It belongs to the fondly-remembered days before Freddy and Jason started subscribing to Sight and Sound and learning about things like mise en scene; it's stuck back where the films weren't bad because they were constantly winking at you, but because they were shoddily produced and conceived and crafted by a gaggle of wonderful idiots.
Splatterhouse genuinely captures a little of that gleeful shoddiness. It's there in the dripping stonework and Aztec-themed mines, in the long-fingered zombies and baby-faced demons. Namco's latest looks likely to be repetitive, short, and unashamedly stupid, sure, but it's just as possible that it will be endearing and faintly hypnotic too.
While it's hardly going to keep you plugging away for hours, this could be a very good game to use as a quick fix when something bad has happened to you in your real life, and you're not quite at the stage where you want to take your violent impulses out on other human beings yet. One-note and rather basic, Splatterhouse has a very simple agenda, then - but so does Santa Claus, and nobody seems to mind his work too much.
tis looking like a good rental
It looks sick and I don't mean in a cool way
Quote from: TaraJayne on May 25, 2010, 10:46:38 AM
It looks sick and I don't mean in a cool way
it does look sick. but in a cool way :D
Quote from: TaraJayne on May 25, 2010, 10:46:38 AM
It looks sick and I don't mean in a cool way
Werd homie... so your down the street talk eh
Shake your babalons! ;D
Quote from: Astrex on May 25, 2010, 11:19:56 AM
Quote from: TaraJayne on May 25, 2010, 10:46:38 AM
It looks sick and I don't mean in a cool way
We rd homier... so your down the street talk eh
Not really I have too teenage sons who say "Sick" a lot :P
They also over use the words phat, whatever, bare (as in my son's have bare amounts of rubbish vocabulary), sketty and clunge. The last word they get slapped for when they say it >:(
Quote from: TaraJayne on May 25, 2010, 01:11:20 PM
Quote from: Astrex on May 25, 2010, 11:19:56 AM
Quote from: TaraJayne on May 25, 2010, 10:46:38 AM
It looks sick and I don't mean in a cool way
We rd homier... so your down the street talk eh
Not really I have too teenage sons who say "Sick" a lot :P
They also over use the words phat, whatever, bare (as in my son's have bare amounts of rubbish vocabulary), sketty and clunge. The last word they get slapped for when they say it >:(
You can't blame him, all teenage boys love clunge! it's when the clunge gets up the duff you need to worry :D
This games doesn't sound very nice and this thread is making me feel very old, I have no idea what you are all talking about!!!
p*ssy :P
You're not old JT you just have standards. Unlike all these youngsters. Did anyone play the original?
Quote from: TaraJayne on May 25, 2010, 03:42:32 PM
You're not old JT you just have standards. Unlike all these youngsters. Did anyone play the original?
Thanks :)
Quote from: Jaynestown on May 25, 2010, 05:42:57 PM
Quote from: TaraJayne on May 25, 2010, 03:42:32 PM
You're not old JT you just have standards. Unlike all these youngsters. Did anyone play the original?
Thanks :)
:(
Cheer up Rex, at least you're not in your 40th year like me! ;)
Quote from: GamerMan316 on May 24, 2010, 07:11:02 PMNamco's latest looks likely to be repetitive, short, and unashamedly stupid ...
I like it! ;D
Quote from: Astrex on May 25, 2010, 06:01:10 PM
Quote from: Jaynestown on May 25, 2010, 05:42:57 PM
Quote from: TaraJayne on May 25, 2010, 03:42:32 PM
You're not old JT you just have standards. Unlike all these youngsters. Did anyone play the original?
Thanks :)
:(
I wasn't just refering to you. I meant my children and there age group. ;)
Rex has standards, they have to have their own teeth :P mwa ha ha
Quote from: Failed on May 26, 2010, 09:14:13 PM
Rex has standards, they have to have their own teeth :P mwa ha ha
Wouldn't say no to an OAP, those teeth come out! ;D
What you reckon Tara, up for it? :D
lmao Your a cheeky bastard :D
Today I told a lady ,and I use that term losely, across the road how old I was and she replied
"Really? I didn't think you was that old" :-\
I do my best baby cakes 8)
and I can't believe you let a granny beat you down :o
Quote from: Astrex on May 27, 2010, 08:10:31 AM
Quote from: Failed on May 26, 2010, 09:14:13 PM
Rex has standards, they have to have their own teeth :P mwa ha ha
Wouldn't say no to an OAP
I'm sure I'll regret asking this, but ...
What's an "OAP"?
Quote from: nCogNeato on May 27, 2010, 07:26:24 PM
Quote from: Astrex on May 27, 2010, 08:10:31 AM
Quote from: Failed on May 26, 2010, 09:14:13 PM
Rex has standards, they have to have their own teeth :P mwa ha ha
Wouldn't say no to an OAP
I'm sure I'll regret asking this, but ...
What's an "OAP"?
old age pensioner
LOL! :D
Achievements (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/splatterhouse/achievements/)
Quote from: Failed on May 24, 2010, 09:29:41 PM
tis looking like a good rental
Just got through with this and yes, a good rental...though not a 'great' rental.
Three major gripes: Damn camera with a possessed mind of its own, the PSOne era load times - 20 to 25 seconds....though the worst offense I experienced was a file corruption at Phase 6 (about half way through) - having to start the whole game over again as there isn't any manual save feature included...pretty weak.
The side-scrolling portions of the game were pretty cool though, broke up the monotony.
Quote from: zerosum on February 22, 2011, 06:14:32 PM
....though the worst offense I experienced was a file corruption at Phase 6 (about half way through) - having to start the whole game over again ...
I read a review where the reviewer had the exact same problem. He / She was not amused.