Siren

THE GOOD:
.new idea of sightjacking
.a definte survivor-horror atmoshere
.zombies carry weapons and are smart!
.nice little cast of characters

THE BAD:
.new idea gets old fast
.the atmoshpere is a lil too japenese, so recognizeing buildings can be tough
.Zombies carry weapons and are smart (yes this is bad/good)
.the characters don't have deep stories, and without being able to use them when you like, and the fact they are all the same (athletically, ability) makes it just, "another thing."
. Map system sux...... EXTREMLY!

SUMMARY:
Ok this game is cool. Its a good horror game. Wait, O.K. horror game. Doesn't come close to be half as good as silent hill though. I've just recently gotten into sur. hor. games, starting with Silent Hill 3 (best storyline and map system ever!). I then played a little of Resident Evil outbreak, which is cool because you can be 8 ppl, each with different skills,items, and ways of fighting zombies, and you can play each one when ever you like. Now i've boughten Siren, ...

THE GOOD:
Excellent Survival Horror Atmosphere

THE BAD:
Awful game engine (Even for a Survival Horror), slightly wonky voice acting

SUMMARY:
What you have here is basically two games in one; the game you end up with will depend largely on the type of player you are. If you're a Survival Horror fanatic, you'll probably love this; it's an atmospheric, horribly tense, surreal, cinematic experience. If you enjoy games for the actual joy of playing, what you've got here is a clunky, obscure and very frustrating slog through seemingly endless unavoidable deaths......You'll turn the air blue at first as you wrestle with the controls, finding it almost impossible to do the simplest things like opening doors or say, walking straight. And actually engaging even the weakest of your Shibito enemies is a task comparable to clocking any Final Fantasy game in one sitting without saving: Seemingly beyond Human ability. At first.......But if you have the patience to persevere despite all this, you'll fin...

THE GOOD:

Haunting atmospheres

Not playable alone!

Smarter than Silent Hill AND Resi Evil

"Sight Jacking" helps mount tension and gives you enourmous help as well

Terryfying enemies - easy to say with this game

Usage of headset to communicate with other siblings and friends

Hordes of playable characters... 9, isn't it?

Face animation is scary alone, in its own rights

Enemies can't die, which makes for a new style of play which forces you to hide

A nice selection of varied sounds and noises

Lots of levels and stages

THE BAD:

Not great weapons at all... Er... yeah.

Won't appeal to everybody

Too hard for its own good!

Doesn't breach the headset to new levels

SUMMARY:
Underrated, but definitely a sure-fire winner if you're looking for a classic survival horror with enough inguinuity to break the barriers. Superb.

THE GOOD:
Atmosphere, story, sight-jacking, background animation

THE BAD:
Weapon system, character graphics

SUMMARY:
Essentially a horror version of Loony Toons PSone game 'Sheep, Dog & Wolf' - you play ten characters over three days as each endeavours to find their way out of towns, schools, valleys, graveyards etc.. generally in pitch darkness, generally weaponless, hindered by the undead who are frequently in your path, and who frequently spell 'Game Over' if they so much as touch you.

A very hard game, that gives you very little information - and as such requires much ground retreading to enable you to continue

(eg: I did the first three missions easily by running past the zombies to my exit point, only to discover later in the game that I had failed to turn over a particular rock, or read an idle newspaper that would unlock further chapters....!)

The graphics are quirky, rather than being realistic - the photorealistic faces/features of the characters look flat and amateur, but the ar...

In the dark village Hanuda, lost in the most put off mountains of Japan, a terrible event transformed the autochthons into zombis called: shibitos. Perpetually seize with a murderous fury, this shibitos are going to make everything for kill the surviving ten whose you control.

In terms of gameplay, this game, taken out in 2003 to Japan and on 2004 in Europe under the name ''Forbidden Siren'', brings two innovations:
- It's split besides seventy short missions, which you free one by one, then by packet, according to your progress. Indeed, the game deceives chronologically on three days: thus, when you ended a mission with a given person, you free not only the following one with her, but also the one who could take place simultaneously with another person, in another sector _ there is 10 in everything, 3 in inside (private hospital, school) and 7 in outsides (campaign, mine, streets). Some actions committed by a protagonist have no visible effect, in fact they will be of use later to ...