Splatterhouse Review (Xbox)

The game will take a second and a third episode, a little richer but equally violent. While more rugged than expected-change-including developer, Namco Bandai has finally managed to rescue one of its old series to the current generation. Splatterhouse series was not particularly popular, but many veteran players still remember spending a lot of coins in the old recreation of 88, or one of their adaptations to console-exclusive to Splatterhouse 3 MegaDrive. At a time when they recover past glories, either high definition adaptations, sequels completely new, as is the case at hand, or directly emulation Virtual Console, for example, and the genres of action and Smite so fashionable, it seemed that it was inevitable, as it has; again look back at these games.

Splatterhouse for the current generation is a revision or reboot; you need not know the old glories to be enjoyed fully, although it has some references to them at specific moments. History tells us the misfortune of a couple, Rick and Jennifer, who are assaulted in the mansion of Dr. West, who happens to be a professor of both young men. The incident ends with the girl kidnapped and Rick mortally wounded in a pool of blood at the point of not telling. Moments before traveling to another neighborhood, a mysterious mask near his bed and coax him to talk about getting it in exchange for heal the wounds and give sufficient power to rescue his bride and avenge West.

Almost without options, the puny hero accepted, becoming a sort of fleshy-Hulk more inspired in the third installment in the former, which mimicked the character of Jason from Friday 13 - with a force unleashed and endless bloodlust. The mask will not leave us until we get to Jennifer, so you better do our part of the treatment and crossed the mansion and other locations that will meet for the dimensional gates before it is too late.

I must say that Splatterhouse is a tribute to gore, splatter gender, with all that that implies. Must be taken on a comic by its excesses, particularly in the amount of blood that splatter the screen and the ground from every corner of the stage: in the game more fluid is poured red in the series Mortal Kombat, God of War, Ninja Gaiden and Gears of War together and multiplied by ten. Say it is not just a gift for a child. However, it is so great that over their initial surprise, failed to become an element created to revulsion or fear, we've spent more terror to Heavy Rain certain scene or detail of amputations of God of War III, "but In any case, is clearly not suitable for all kinds of stomachs. La Tomatina is so absurd that it is impossible to consider seriously.

Splatterhouse takes the gameplay much more in common with Final Fight style beat'em up in a three-dimensional gender Slash'EM up as the game can be played by Kratos Santa Monica, Bayonetta or Devil May Cry. It is a game too fast, or aesthetically beautiful, and Combos