Product Description

An American TV crew has arrived in Japan to film an expose on the legend of the "vanished village." Controlling seven different playable characters, the player must uncover the mystery behind the curse that grips the eerie village of Hanuda. The unique "sight jack" system allows the player to see from the point of view of the Shibito, or living dead, to avoid their detection or watch as they close in on the player and companions. Intense graphics, realistic character animation, and a gritty film-like graphical presentation add to the horror of Siren: Blood Curse.

• Complex story spread across 12 dramatic separate episodes with seven playable characters in all
• Sight jack system lets you see exactly what your enemies see
• Sneak past the deadly Shibito or take them head on with over 50 kinds of weapons, each with unique fatal finishing move animations
• Archive system lets player unlock a variety of story clues and important background information

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3001 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2008-10-31
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Customer Reviews

Amazing japanese horror
I purchased this game through the Playstation Network and I'm glad to see they are now releasing this game onto Blu-ray disc as it truly deserves it. I'm going to be buying this game for the second time because I like it that much and as a download it also eats up quite a large amount of space on your HD.

Siren: Blood Curse takes you on a terrifying adventure set in Japan. An American TV crew find themselves deserted on an island where they have come to investigate and document the legend of Hanuda, a "vanished village" where human sacrifices are said to have taken place thirty years prior. Each are eventually split up and have to face the dangers of the island alone. Another character, a teenager named Howard is also on the island and you will get to play each and every character in the game throughout your journey.

Sam and Melissa are a seperated couple who have come to the island and their daughter Bella has been brought along by Sam which Melissa isn't happy about. You get to play as Sam and Melissa and even play as Bella in a terrifying hospital level which involves creeping around in stealth.

The occupents of the island appear to be Japanese zombie-like creatures which vary in strength and difficulty as you progress. There are also some larger and very obscure and frightening enemies later on in the game. Each of the enemies and the characters show off some amazing graphical details and the game looks absolutely stunning. A fantastic part of the game with a huge enemy shaking a bus as you try to make your way through stood out as a really memorable part of this game for me which is one of many great atmospheric and frightening moments within the entire 20+ hour adventure.

Some of the gameplay includes fighting off enemies with various weapons, solving puzzles, shooting, combat, using memory and most noticebly sightjacking. Sightjacking gives you the ability to see through the eyes of nearby enemies and other characters whilst you still view the character you are playingin a split-screen mode. This works really well once you get the hang of it and comes in useful for when you are required to creep around or attack enemies from behind.

Siren: BC gives you the true feeling of horror and suspense that alot of survival horrors find hard to pull off. I was genuinely scared at moments and the game can make you jump quite a bit. The graphics are excellent, they're dark but you constantly have light sources and it can feel very eerie exploring the village. Some of the people who have turned into zombies are some off the collest looking zombies I have seen in a game yet.

If you love a decent story, great graphics, a scary/creepy experience and a decent length game with great characters and dicversity then you will love Siren BC. The game is seperated into episodes within chapters giving you a re-cap of what happened in the last episode, these are really cool and effective and if you want to just continue playing it doesn't interupt the game or make it less fluid in any way.

An amazing game that surprised me and became one of my best PS3 titles of 2008. 10/10

Old school horror in more ways than one
Bought this after the belated Blu Ray release, and found it to be a chilling, if archaic, horror title.
Being new to the franchise, its difficult to determine how much of a sequel this is. Some say it's a remake of the original; in the additional documentary the games makers say this is an attempt to westernise the original concept. This means that American characters are thrown into the mix. Seeing things through their perspective does create the illusion of being an outsider to this possessed Japenese village.

The story itself is a convoluted mess, that takes some Acts to pace out and make sense of. Every completed section unlocks an item of a specific character, that links into the story. If the player takes time to look at these, the absurd plot does begin to make sense. Like why a young girl has been taken on a documentary about the occult.
Gameplay is split into Acts, originally intended for edisodic download, that lends itself well to late night sessions. The beginning of each Act recaps events so far, and also works well.

Graphics range from excellent, usually during indoor environments where the lighting is truly menacing. Wider, more open spaces dont work so well. Effects like lens flare, and a grainy look, (made famous by Silent Hill) is very effective for creating suspense in these limited environments.

Despite some originality in the form of 'sight jacking' (the ability to see through the eyes of your enemy), Sirens puzzles havent moved on from the previous generation. Objectives are listed on the pause screen, but most puzzles are remarkably obscure, the rest a case of trial and error. Regardless, hunting around for a missing key quickly frustrates. At best the puzzles feel like filler, designed to prolong the levels. At worst they ruin any tension or fear the rest of the game has so carefully built.

Another negative point is the combat. Admittedly, this doesent have to be particularly sophisticated for a horror, yet the one button approach is still underwhelming. Once even a small weapon has been obtained, the Shibito are easily contained, bypassing the need to creep around and sight jack. Its no coincidence that the scariest sections are when defenceless.
If combat was going to be such a prominent feature, the controls and overall system should have been upgraded significantly. This is only exascerbated as the game progresses - where Shibito are stronger and more numerous.
Levels are recycled a lot, usually playing exactly the same section with a different character. For the whole, this feels cheap, but on a handful of times does enrich the experience.

The budget price does reflect the content. Siren Blood Curse is good while it lasts, but there isnt a huge amount of gameplay, and as mentioned, the controls are quite poor.

This Game Will Screw With Your Mind!!!
Last week I bought Siren Blood Curse after reading online that it was a semi scary game and a decent game overall, man did I get a very pleasent surprise.

I put in the game and I didn't get a tutorial, a 10 minute long cgi intro or anytime what so ever to brace myself for what comes flying at you. The game cleverly throws you in the thick of it making you panic and hurry along the first level and from there things pick up greatly.

The game is a horror based in Japan (surprise) on some abandoned island where some village rituals use to go on (another surprise) and you play a series of american tv workers, teenage boys, little girl etc... lots of characters to go through which is great.

The story itself is not worth telling because that ruins the fun of the game and its worth finding out by playing it.

Anyway... this island is riddled with darkness, the skys are red, the water is full of blood and the island is mobbed with Shibito. Now these Shibito are creepy and just plain horrible. Basically they're zombies, who have a small portion of intelligence and their basic instincts are to rip you to pieces. Their voices are phased and destorted (like classic Evil Dead) and they will hunt you and never stop.

The Shibito are quite clever in my opinion. They'll go about their daily tasks etc until they spot you. Then they're literally roam around the entire map until they find you. Turn your torch off and hide under your bed because they're clever AI. Not only do they like to hunt you but they also love to taunt you. Level 3 you have to sneak out of this abandoned hospital as this little girl and having one of these sucker chase you shouting "Im going to find you, I saw you!" etc was tense!

The graphics for this game are stunning. I admit i'm not a fan of the PS3, I find some of their games quite unimpressive due to bad graphics, screen tearing etc but this game is absolutly beautifal in it's dark twisted ways. Everything inthe game is surrounded by darkness, fog and damp and the guys who made this game pulled it off soo well. The body animations are fantastic and detailed. They did a very good job here.

Now the controls... I'v read alot of complaints about the controls and it's perfectly understandable to find them abit WONKY. But, in my honest opinion they fit the game very well... awkward like the game itself. The controls will take a short learning curve and if you play too muchgames like me I wouldn't worry about it.

Gameplay, now this is where I was extremely surprised. Think Silent Hill meets Splinter Cell. Yes, what we have here is a stealth horror game. You don't do any split legged jumps or hack computers but a fair portion of the game is about sneaking about the place, laying traps for Shibito or finding ways to distract the devils so you can sneak past them. This stealth system works well, it creates a severe amount of tension and makes the game different from the usual horror games (ie Big guns and grenades).

Sound, this is my favourite part about the game. I installed it, loaded it and then had to see to my baby for 2 minutes only to hear this wonderful creepy soundtrack oozing out my tv speakers. I tell you it's very rare to find a spooky soundtrack on agame these days but this game certianly has it.

Overall this game is fantastic if you like horror games or fancy a severe change. It lives up to it's prequels (which if you havent played are worth the purchase : Forbidden Siren 1+2) and looks twice as good. I'd recommend it for the price it's going for, for the simple fact it's probably the best game on the PS3 that no one pays attention too. :)