Splatterhouse

by Bandai

Product Details

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• ASIN: B001E7MMNG
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 23, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,531 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

From the Manufacturer

Metal heads, horror freaks and hardcore action gamers, unite! Rick Taylor and the Terror Mask are back, tearing, cutting and beating their way through inhuman abominations and hordes of the undead in a tale of love, mutilation and near-insanity. A wall of metal tunes underscores blood-soaked battles with massive bosses, brutal weapons, over-the-top gore and real-time regeneration. And while your ears are ringing, a new Splatterkill System lets you get your hands bloody!

Punching a Faceless. View larger.

The Core of Gore.
Follow Rick and his mysterious Terror Mask as he unmercifully tears, cuts and beats his way through denizens of unearthly creatures in an epic adventure to rescue his girlfriend from the clutches of deranged occult figure Dr. West. Embodying the unfiltered, primal aggression of its namesake, Splatterhouse combines visceral, adrenaline-soaked combat with horror elements to deliver an original gaming experience that defies the boundaries of the traditional action category with over the-top gore and shocking new gameplay mechanics.

Key Game Features

• The Classic Franchise Returns – An innovative reinvention of a classic category-killer with an original storyline inspired by Gordon Rennie (Necronauts, Judge Dredd)
• Re-imagined Enemies – Classic enemies have evolved into horrific monsters of radical proportions and shocking detail
• Extreme Gore – Splatterhouse pulls no punches, taking gore and shock value to the next level with physics-driven fluids and organ parts flying in all directions
• Regeneration – Real time physical damage and regeneration shows the rebuilding of bone, muscle and skin
• Pulse-Pounding Combat – Use Rick’s deep set of moves, improvised weapons, environmental attacks, and unique enemy AI to obliterate enemies at each turn
  • Engaging combo system that opens up to gruesome Splatterkills, which destroy your enemies with gory and cinematic effects
  • Terrifying enemies and epic-scale bosses provide unnerving experiences and memorable challenges
  • Diverse environments with H.P. Lovecraft-influenced style are coupled with a world-class heavy metal soundtrack and custom music score, keeping the tone tense and eerie
  • Utilize weapons of all kinds to bludgeon your enemies, from classic 2X4’s to chainsaws to your enemies’ own limbs

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Rick is back and badder than ever! View larger.

Product Description

Splatterhouse PS3

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Splatterhouse Revisited November 29, 2010

By Mr Revan

Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

Splatterhouse returns with a big "Splat" and brings back a classic game with a bit of twist. In the original Splatterhouse, the premise is simple, Rick is killed and with the help of a demonic mask, returns to exact revenge and reclaim his girl. The story remains more or less the same but with a few changes, after all, this is a relaunch of the series and not exactly a remake.

The first level prepares you for the challenges ahead while previewing the powers you will eventually be able to use to obliterate the forces of evil. The mask has a more Willem Dafoe's green goblin personality and assist you in rescuing your helpless girlfriend. A few classic enemies return and new ones await in Dr West's mansion.

Overall the game is fun but a lot of the enemy characters are used over and over again, so half way through the game you will have seen all the monsters and demons you will demolish along the way. Hidden pictures of Jennifer are scattered along the way and once revealed add a bit of an incentive to find them all (especially if you are trophy hunting).

In addition to the main game, there are challenging bonus stages that challenge you while not been overly frustrating and during the main game you can unlock all three original Splatterhouse games, so in effect you get four games in one. A great value to any Ps3 collection.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Gore-gasm!!! November 30, 2010

By Scratchy - The Velour Fog

Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3|Amazon Verified Purchase

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

If God of War and Dante's Inferno had kids, Splatterhouse would be the crazy emotionally disturbed adolescent that lives in the basement. Great aspects from both games that i loved in both games are in this one. Dante's inferno had a more sexual theme to it than GOW so what does Splatterhouse have? Hidden pictures of your naked girlfriend scattered throughout the game that you can put together and veiw as sort of amateur porn pics. Gow had great visuals and story. Unfortunately Splatterhouse has none of these but when you get a game where you grab an enemy and dismember it in a text based minigame you can't help but compare it to GOW.

Visually as i said this game does not compare to GOW or Dante's Inferno. It looks and plays like Afro Samurai except for TONS of blood, Humor and endless ways to kill your enemies.

Gameplay can be a bit hard to figure out. You can't really stand up and mash buttons til everyone on the screen is dead (not until you unlock a bunch of skills first atleast). You have to use the block/roll button for defense if you get surrounded or if you unlocked certain skills you can bulldoze your way through it or just grab the nearest enemy and swing them 360 til you have enough room.

One cool aspect of the game is the healing feature that uses spilt blood that you have accumulated by killing enemies to heal yourself. Which is incredibly useful if your getting your ass kicked and your surrounded by a ton of enemies, you just throw out spikes that literally suck the blood out of the nearby enemies completely refilling your health.

Fun factor all depends on how much gore you can stand.... If you think gutting a centuar in GOW3 was gross then you haven't seen anything yet. In Splatterhouse Rick opens the mouth of a enemy snapping the skull from the jaw then shoving his hand down their throat pulling out the lungs and throwing them on the floor. If your opposed to that type of gore and violence then this game might not be as fun for you.
Update and Spoiler alert sorta: Sickest part of the game is pulling out the sphincter of a mutant demon frog man.

Much like Afro Samurai the music was a great compliment to the game but unlike Afro Samurai this game is not Repetitive or easy.

Beating certain chapters of the game unlocks the original Splatterhouse games (1,2 & 3) as well as different versions of the survival arena where you go to a certain level and beat wave after wave of enemies until you die.

Overall great game for fans of blood and violence period. If you want something that looks amazing buy God of War: Collection/God of War III. If you want something other than GOW with an incredibly perverted storyline from begining all the way to Satan's dong swinging end battle then Dante's Inferno Divine Edition is for you. If you want a game that is all about blood, gore, violence, humor, heavy metal and beating enemies with dismembered parts of your or your enemies body then get Splatterhouse. It has lived up to my expectations and it just might surprise you how much fun it really is. Read more ›

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The voice actor is from Darkwing Duck! November 27, 2010

By pasteyswazey

Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

This game is exceedingly gross, which the producers know . . . they said that on one of their interviews I read off of gamespot, but . . . it is addictive!

In the absence of a review from any of the major critic websites--due in part to, I guess the Thanksgiving holiday and people actually taking a break from their jobs to enjoy themselves and relax, everyone needs to--I thought I'd put up a quick review to get things going.

This review is based on a 30% completion rate, so I still have more to go, but after probably close to 10 hours, I think I'm safe as to sharing an opinion as to what it's all about.

Yes, it's worth full price. Definitely. I was very skeptical at first, I though it would be like Golden Axe, playing off of a strong name, but being one of the worst ever games to play. Not at all! They took the title and improved upon it. If you were around to play the original games from Genesis and the arcade version, never saw that one in an arcade myself, but I remember seeing the Genesis version and wanting to buy it, but I had my Nintendo, this game is all of that gory fun x10. Be ready to see blood splatter. The game is fun in that it knows it's gross, and at one point, **one line spoiler alert** the actor for the mask even says, "That right there is why we got a f#$@in' "M" rating." Funniest line so far breaking the 4th wall.

There is no repetition in this game. There are a variety of evil demons to kill, and then there are similar ones, but they have different colorings and slightly different move set, just enough to keep things fresh throughout the whole game.

The most challenging part for me so far was Stage 3.... Near the beginning you're jumping from roof top to roof top, but there's one part, where if you miss, I had to restart the game to reset the timing on it so the roof didn't collapse down around me before I was able to make the jump. So, you'll play for the challenge, but some parts where you just have to memorize the sequence in order to make it past, yes it's challenging and that has kept me playing it for the payoff reward when I finally do get through, but if you don't like that kind of game play it could be a major turn off point.

I also thought I'd like this game because the old ones were thrown in free, but once you get to today's current graphics, while there is some nostalgia about playing the older games, you'll be thankful the developers cared enough to really concentrate on this last iteration and pack if full of new material and new challenges. This is without a doubt a mature game, wouldn't want to play this with children in the room. But on the upside, it reminded me a lot of the first Ninja Gaiden Sigma and a little like God of War. Once you get past the learning curve, seeing all the ways you can obliterate enemies even starts to make you chuckle. I can only imagine the design teams meetings when they were thinking up all of this stuff. Someone asks, "Another question . . . how else can we make it more gory?" But the challenge is undeniable, the graphics are smooth, but some of the sequences can be frustrating, and one more of my biggest peeves, not enough variation in the load screens. I'd rather have a spinning mask than some of the creatures it shows while the game reloads after you die.

I rented this, but it is worth the money. I'll most likely grab a copy for Christmas. Fun game that you must give a try. Read more ›

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Trust the players, not the reviewers. September 28, 2011

By Zax Neon

Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

I don't usually play modern beat 'em up's. I never tried any God of War game at all, as the theme just doesn't appeal to me. However, I always liked the original Splatterhouse on Turbographix 16, and this game was on my wish list for a while. It is a wonderful specimen of modernization while retaining all the details from the original. A lot of the reviews said that the game had broken controls, buggy, etc. Well that's just not true. Technically it plays smoothly and enjoyably with no bugs at all. It is challenging from a gaming perspective, but so was the original, and I'm glad that this new one isn't a total cakewalk. You have to actually know what Rick's moves are, and use them for certain enemies, rather than just button mashing. You can get a good little beat 'em up trance going when you're in the zone. The 2d parts are great; just what fans of the original would want. At first I thought the graphics looked odd and couldn't put my finger on it until I realized that they were using the same weird palette of colors that the original had. Quite unsettling for some reason. The story elements are simple, fast paced, unobtrusive, and fun, as they should be. I read that this game lost all support from Namco shortly before release due to company leadership shake ups, thus a sequel is unlikely. That said, I am super happy to have gotten this game at all, and will probably play through again--something else I don't do too often in modern games. I like that it's short enough to beat in a weekend. I can't tell you how many times I enjoyed beating Contra, or Bionic Commando, or Splatterhouse over and over. This modernization retains that kind of feel. Go ahead and order it. Splatterhouse still rules!