Can Splatterhouse throw enough internal organs, flesh-ripping kills and liquid gore to keep players interested in a middling beat ’em up adventure that full of gristle and bloodshed, but little meat?
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 ...
To say that Splatterhouse is a game that deals in blood would be an understatement. It's a game that revels in it. It paints the walls with it. It's a game that plants its tongue firmly through cheek, ...
Founded by the team behind the ultra-violent PS2 classic, The Mark of Kri, developer BottleRocket ain't about to shy away from the dark shadow cast by the original Splatterhouse. (Fun fact: When ...
Jason Vorhees' hockey mask in Friday the 13th was an accident. Special effects man Martin Jay Sadoff just happened to really like hockey and have a bag of old-school gear with him when the third movie ...
Splatterhouse’s 2010 revival is crass, lacking in almost any subtlety and gorier than Mortal Kombat. You play as Rick, possessed by the Terror Mask, a rip-off of ...
Namco Bandai’s revival of Splatterhouse has been, well, kind of messy. After announcing the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game as in development at California-based BottleRocket Entertainment in May 2008 ...
If you’d stumbled on Splatterhouse in an arcade in the late ’80s, you would’ve immediately noted how different it looked from other video games of the era. While games had been growing in graphical ...
Splatterhouse is a 1988 arcade beat ‘em up that is best described as an ’80s B-horror movie made into a video game. You play as Rick Taylor, a man on the brink of ...
Handjob dungeon: now that sounds like a great place to visit, doesn’t it? Sadly, it isn’t. It turns out that Handjob Dungeon isn’t a sex den where full-blooded males’ dreams come true, but it’s ...
Splatterhouse's development has been a horror movie in and of itself. Originally given to Mark of Kri developers Bottlerocket Entertainment back in 2007, Namco snatched the title away early last year ...
There’s a lot wrong with Splatterhouse. It’s a bungling action game that relies heavily on the nostalgia from its predecessors while hiding its faults under the copious amounts of blood you spill ...