After 2 years ‘Splatterhouse’ game finally gets a date!
Thursday, October 28th, 2010Publisher announced today that Splatterhouse has completed development and will hit the market November 23.
Splatterhouse is to feature a mix of platforming, puzzle-solving, and brutal combat, all set to an original storyline by comic-book scribe Gordon Rennie (Judge Dredd, Necronauts). Players assume the role of a college student in search of his kidnapped girlfriend and subsequently happen upon a mask that confers great power, and an insatiable bloodlust (yummy!).
The series reprise will also feature the original Splatterhouse trilogy of games as an unlockable bonus. Gamers interested in simply checking out the original Splatterhouse can either download the TurboGrafx-16 version from the Wii Shop Channel or look forward to a mobile version of the title set for release on a variety of platforms, including the iPhone and Windows Mobile phone, around the same time as the console game.
We thought that this game had been shelved since it was originally announced as being in development in May 2008 by BottleRocket Entertainment. Namco Bandai had abruptly pulled the studio off the project in February 2009. After a brief dispute between the two companies, Variety reported that Namco Bandai had picked up a number of ex-BottleRocketeers to finish the project.
Even though it will miss Halloween, it should have enough blood and gore to carry over and land in your cranberry sauce on Turkey Day.
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