Since it was a brutal, M-rated franchise and Namco Bandai owned the IP, the publisher’s American branch was enthusiastic. Taking advantage of the slasher genre’s popularity, the game featured a Jason Voorhees-like masked hero named Rick splattering a variety of ghoulish creatures in a crude beat-’em-up. And then there was Splatterhouse.Ī late-’80s gore-fest, the Splatterhouse series originally flickered to life in arcades. It tried a gravity shifting shooter called Inversion. It tried the mythological adventure Enslaved. It tried a reboot of in-house action series Dead to Rights. It tried a game based on the American anime series Afro Samurai. Violent, edgy, Western-focused games like Grand Theft Auto were taking off, and Namco Bandai wanted a piece of that success. The company had a stable of legacy franchises like Ridge Racer and Tekken from its studios in Japan, but the Western market was growing. Iwai, a Sony veteran, says his mission was clear: to find a local hit for the new generation.
The game is rated "M" for Mature by the ESRB and carries an MSRP of $59.99.In 2005, Xbox 360 was new to stores, PlayStation 3 was around the corner, media giants Namco and Bandai had just merged, and Makoto Iwai took a job as a senior vice president at Namco Bandai’s newly joined U.S. SPLATTERHOUSE is now available nationwide for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. SPLATTERHOUSE gives players countless ways to decimate your enemies with extreme gore including Necrotic energy powered attacks, the all powerful Berserker Mode, an arsenal of classic & new SPLATTERHOUSE weapons, and the ultimate over-the-top gruesome Splatter Kills which enable the player to rip, impale, and smash their opponents into bloody pulpy masses. Full of desperation, Rick dons the "Terror Mask" and is transformed into a raging juggernaut seething with unadulterated violence and bringing destruction to anything that stands in his way. West's control, Rick turns to a mystical sentient mask, which promises to give him the power to reunite with his beloved Jennifer. Confronted by otherworldly horrific abominations under Dr. SPLATTERHOUSE follows college student Rick Taylor as he embarks on a mission to rescue his true love, Jennifer, who was kidnapped after they entered a mysterious run-down Mansion inhabited by an elusive scientist, Dr. Previously, Heart of the Mansion and House of Mirrors were only available as preorder exclusives so this is an opportune time to check them out if you missed out previously. This latest DLC offering combines all four previously released survival arenas into a single downloadable pack, including Heart of the Mansion, House of Mirrors, Killing Room, and Lost Islands.
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