THE GOOD:- Excellent psychological horror vibe, with genuinely scary monsters
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Vastly improves on the gameplay of previous titles in the series
THE BAD:
- Downloading and installing it all takes quite a while.
- Sometimes the visuals are a little too dark to see what's going on
SUMMARY:
The original Forbidden Siren game was released on the PS2 in 2004 to wildly mixed reviews. The UK's official PS2 magazine gave the game 9/10 and called it a masterpiece. By contrast, many other publications gave the game poor reviews, lambasting the horrible controls, pitiful voice acting and utterly confusing nature of the game in general. A sequel was released in 2006, which largely failed to improve on the failings of its predecessor. So when the announcement came that there was to be a PS3 version, and that it would be a remake of the first title, there was some groaning and eye-rolling to be witnessed amongst fans of survival horror....