For those of you who were unfortunate enough to not be able to play Siren 2, the game gives you much clearer objectives (that make more sense) and completing mission objectives to unlock later missions are now more obvious. The game is also more of an action game.

Also, sightjacking is never a skill that players start out with. Spoiler: It is after the characters come into contact with the red water that they obtain this tool. It is also the same red water that constantly regenerates the health of characters and enemies. End spoiler.

I just hope they don't kill all the stealth to appeal to Americans. For those of you who do not know, although the stealth gameplay was not popular in America that game was fairly popular in Japan, enough to result in a sequel AND a movie.

ceru

Also, the fact that the characters do not have sight jacking does not mean tht athe game will not implemement it. Both games did not include the system at first. SPOILER: It was when the characters came into contact with he red water that they were able to sightjack. It is also the presence of the red water that allows the characters to be in a constant regenerative state.

Which is why reviving shibitos makes no sense.

ceru

Zombie_Crunch

Mac Hall called it. Five years ago, even.

Jonn

KirbySS

bobtheduck

yes.

J.A.

I hope they price it cheaper than the Disc version...

bubuli

First person view was in Siren 2 as well. All that stuff is, except the Hollywood one-liners and the finishing moves.

J.A.

Yeah, the first person view is there for sure and more than just a mere view.

I can't comment about the rest of the matter as you described it, since I never played the 2nd game. I'm in Canada and my Japanese isn't good enough to import Siren 2 to catch up.

SG79

When HOME and trophies come along all my familie's efforts would be lumped into the main PSN id.

Fix this SONY and I'll buy full games and episodic content from you.

kspraydad4

lordofsword

cio

sir_carrot

Sorry if this is a silly Q, but is our version of 'Siren: New Translation' which was released as a demo on the Japanese PSN? Because I downloaded that from my Japanese account and thought it was great.

Same game, different title right? (Kind of like Resident Evil to Biohazard).

KrisNaga

weasl

Thorax

Ghede

RubyMars

At $4.99 an episode, it might be palatable as long as you get at least 90 minutes of gameplay out of it.

jayntampa

really? i noticed the same camera views as SIREN 2 and 2's "easier" fight "game play". About the only thing "overhauled" in Siren 3 is the addition of finishing moves and Hollywood one-liners.

@Dir_en_grey:

rofl yeh, I'd totally forgotten about the blind dude.

J.A.

I don't think making the game more about combat would make it better. It sounds like they have made it more like Thief, in that you could handle 1 maybe 2 attackers directly, but you really didn't want to that unless there was no alternative, or you messed up. This game works as a stealth game, rather than RE4 or even silent hill style combat, just wanted more freedom in how I actually carried out those sneaking tasks.

Ehardergardens

Read my comments. The system is completely overhauled for the PS3 (gameplay wise)

SG79

You_Remind_Me_of_my_Famous_Friends

Ehardergardens

Nope. The original sold extremely poorly as a matter of fact. I remember Wal Mart clearing out copies with the first 3 months at $5 (CAD(.

SG79

@J.A.:
You can in part 2 =)
There's a blind character and you sight-jack a dog while controlling your character. All the people that suck at video games were probably gonna bitch about that more so they never released part 2 in states?

Dir_en_grey

To add to that, there is a first person view mode that's varied. You can look, walk around, and even shoot or use melee weapons in that mode.

You can also permanently kill the shibitos. In case you run out of ammo, that serves as a melee weapons too.

The camera style is pure RE4 and so is the shooting. Mind you, the core gameplay is still one that requires you to avoid enemies. If you get surrounded by more than one of them, consider yourself dead.

SG79

liba

The gameplay system in the JPN demo is completely overhauled. In fact, it didn't have sight jacking just to showcase the system itself.

The shocker? it's actually fun to play now.

SG79

SenorKaffee

you can't do anything while sight-jacking.

J.A.

kingclip

So could you say this is a second-person shooter? I've only seen one or two games that put the gameplay camera in the perspective of your enemies, and then only briefly.

Bovius

Gambare

J.A.

Considering how quickly they have this "new" Siren game for PS3, I doubt that it's entirely different from the New Translation version in Japan.

boopadoo

KirbySS

Ehardergardens

ohhello

"In a gaming first, Siren Blood Curse will be released episodically,"

Their definition of "first" must not be the same as ours. Unless they mean it's the first time Siren Blood Curse has been released episodically, which is almost certainly true.

I Put The Bomp

That's gotta be up there with
Kill Shoot Angry Guy
and
World War 2 Shoot Nazi's
For imaginative titles.

It's like they just reached in a bag of generic horror words.

Zim

enewtabie

will

MSUSteve

jackking