Horror Drought About To End

On the Japanese Playstation Store, Sony put up a demo for a game hitting Japan in July, which is doubtless bound for an English translation. It’s called Siren: New Translation and is actually a PS3 remake of a horror game released on the PS2 back in 2003. Like a lot of horror games, there’s a zombie thing of sorts going on here, except that one of the key differences is the characters are gifted with a psychic “zombie vision” where they temporarily jump into the viewpoint of the zombies. This seems to jump up the scare factor once you realize that the silhouette in the dark the zombie suddenly started madly running towards is YOU. I tried the out the demo, which was mercifully brief and came out of it screaming at least twice. This game is going to traumatize children for YEARS if they get their hands on it. Up until now the PS3 hasn’t had any really decent horror games, but with Silent Hill 5 coming in September and now this, it looks things are shaping up for a pretty decent Halloween this year.