The first survival horror game available on the PS3 is coming to the PLAYSTATION Store today! We have worked on this for many a month now, and cannot express enough how anxious we are to hear what you think when you finally get to play this game!
Let me give you just a little bit of background information to get you familiar with the story, in case you haven’t seen the trailers or tried the demo yet (there’s one embedded below).
An American TV crew sets out on a journey to Japan in hopes of shooting a documentary piece about a mysterious village that supposedly disappeared under a mud slide 30 years ago. Upon arrival in this village, they immediately stumble across a disturbing ritual taking place. In the midst of the confusion and terror, a siren screams out. It’s a spine chilling sound. Is it a warning to stay away? What is the meaning of it? Why do the inhabitants keep coming back to life? What is going on here? I would love to tell you more, but that’s for you to find out…
As the player, you get to experience the unique sense of fear this game delivers as you control 7 different playable characters, each character witnessing a different part of the horror and the mystery. And of course there is the unique sight jack system, which lets you see things from the perspective of your friends and even of the deadly Shibito undead, which I think really adds to the kind of horror you can experience with this game.
You should definitely play at night, lights out and surround sound on. The shivers you will get are perfect for the summer heat.
And yes… Let’s talk about pricing and how the product will be released.
So, how do you pick up Siren: Blood Curse? Very easy. Just head to the PLAYSTATION Store on your PS3 and go to the Siren category page. There should be banners up, and it should also be found in the “new releases” section. Now, the game is split into 12 easily digestible chunks, like episodes of a TV series. You’ll be able to purchase the game in three separate packs, consisting of 4 episodes each. These will run at $14.99 per 4-episode bundle. Or, right off the bat, you can purchase the full game for a nice discount at only $39.99. This is all available only through the PS Store. Remember, this is a full-length game, much larger in scale than most of the downloadable games available on the store. It’s on par with full-scale Blu-ray disc releases, and is all part of our effort to expand our selection of game content on the store.
If you want to try out the game before you buy, be sure to download the demo from the PS Store for a taste of the full game has to offer.
While you’re on the PS Store, be sure to check out the cool wallpapers and PS3 Theme we’ve come up with. There will also be a few more awesome wallpapers available next week as well.
Horror isn’t my cup of tea.
So, here goes the most tough question.
There’s the chance for Siren to come on a BlueRay Disc? Because its simple many of us can’t buy anything from the store without the PSN cards even if many of us manage to own a credit card (like me) and the PSN store doesn’t allow to complete the process cuz the information look invalid to the store when its exactly the same as represent on the credit card balance statement. Any idea… Sony…? Jeff…? Anyone…? o.O
I know there is probably some strategic or experimental reason for releasing this game only on the PSN, but you have to know that you will be missing a bunch of potential sales for a variety of reasons (e.g. monthly provider bandwith limits, limited space on hard drives, preference for non-digital versions, etc) by not having a blu-ray version. I like purchasing content on the PSN, but I’m not going to buy enormous files this way.
i cant wait to download this later tonight when it becomes available. i have no problem with it using 9gb of storage. thats what the hard drive is there for, to put stuff on it. With it being download only i dont have to worry about someone borrowing it and never giving it back.
Oh god. Hell YES!! Too bad there’s no blu ray version!!!!!!!!
They put the movie service online for us in the Puerto Rico area. Thanks guys!!!!
I was looking forward to this game coming out when i heard about it but after playing the demo i’m not sure anymore. I didn’t like the graphics and the way everything was all brown and kind of static like just gave me a headache…plus in the demo it didn’t even seem scary…just had to walk past the people when they weren’t looking. I hope the game is a lot better than the demo…but i’m afraid i won’t be getting it…also i don’t wanna store something that big of a file on my PS3 cause i like having my space and like to be able to delete stuff when i don’t need it anymore…kind of hard to delete something that big specially after you payed that much for it. I would prefer a blue-ray disc just for convenience so maybe whenever, if ever, it comes out on a disc i may rent it.
Thanks though for trying to make a sweet game everybody hopefully may enjoy.
Greystone,
This is where having the game as 12 episodes helps. Each episode is a separate downloadable file, and can be deleted from your hard drive when you finish playing it. This is an option on the episode select screen. And you can always re-download episodes and play them again if you want.
And about the game itself, the full game offers a lot more variety than the demo did, both in terms of gameplay and environments/ colors. It also gets a lot scarier. The demo is just a tiny taste of the full game, if you still want to give it a try.