Last minute change for Splatterhouse

[Cenobite, that cute pariah]

Well, supposedly the game is just about done, however it seems that this past Friday the boys at Namco-Bandai showed up at developer Bottle Rocket's offices with a U-Haul and reclaimed various assets such as development kits.

Namco-Bandai subsiquently released a statement confirming that Bottle Rocket is no longer involved with the Splatterhouse. The project is now in the hands of an internal Namco-Bandai team who recently worked on the Afro Samurai game.

I saw the full story here: www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57149

This is rather strange, since rumor had it the game would be ready to go in as little as a month.

To be honest, I haven't been too impressed by some of the previews shown over the past year, so if the developer change results in a better game, I've no problem with it.

[Toadkiller Dog]

It's strange all the same, but as a freaking FANATIC of the original trilogy of games, ANY Splatterhouse is good Splatterhouse to me. Rick's new look isn't the best, but hey, game still looks as brutal and balls to the wall as the originals, so I can't really complain.

If I had to make a complaint about the new game it'd be that the enemy design isn't as gruesome and horrendous as the oldschool ones. Well, that and the rock music in the trailer. I'm a metalhead, so I'm all for hard rock/metal in games, but the old Splatterhouse games had this creepy soundtrack that worked so well.

Still if you're gonna put metal into Splatterhouse there's only ONE band to do it. Cannibal Corpse. It's a perfect fucking fit man. So many song titles of theirs roll through my head when playing the older games...

Puncture Wound Massacre, Mummified in Barbed Wire, Shatter Their Bones, Hammer Smashed Face, etc.

When it comes to Splatterhouse if you were gonna use any type of music other than ambience, it'd have to be hardcore death metal, especially gore heavy like Cannibal Corpse.