Siren (PS2)

November 28, 2003 | 2 Comments

I accidentally stumbled upon a trailer for this new game and find it to be quite creepy in that Silent Hill way. It turns out this game was directed by Keiichiro Toyama, the same person who was responsible for the idea and direction of Silent Hill 1. Judging from the trailer, the polygon and the texture of the game don't look that impressive. But the eerie atmosphere seems to make up for these deficiencies. It looks like the game is inspired by various Japanese horror films such as Ringu (The Ring), as well as some horror manga like Uzumaki (Spiral into Terror).

At the moment the game will be released in Japan as well as Europe (see the Japanese & European PS2 covers below). It remains to be seen if this game will see the light of the day in the US. Anyway, if you're interested and have Windows Media Player, there's a new trailer on the Official Siren site (most of the texts are in Japanese but you can guess as to which one links you to the trailer). There is also this nice fanpage which has more trailers as well as some scans of the Japanese PS2 booklet.

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