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Siren: Blood Curse

A TV crew from America arrive to research and film an exposé on the urban myth of Hanuda, the Vanished Village, where human sacrifices are said to have taken place. Hanuda is a dark, eerie world, frozen in the…

75 13 July 2008

Siren: Blood Curse is an adventure developed by Project Siren, released 13 July 2008 on PlayStation 3.

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What Siren: Blood Curse is

Siren: Blood Curse is an adventure game developed by Project Siren and released in 2008. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

An American television crew travels to Hanuda, a remote Japanese mountain village that mysteriously vanished decades earlier, hoping to document its dark history. When they witness a grisly ritual sacrifice, everything unravels: an eerie siren sounds, the village is severed from the outside world, and the dead rise as shambling corpse-creatures called the shibito. Among those caught in the nightmare is Howard Wright, an American student lured to Hanuda by a strange message. As the crew and villagers are scattered and hunted through the cursed hills, mines, and hospital, the survivors must use their uncanny ability to see through their enemies' eyes to evade the shibito and uncover the…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Siren: Blood Curse holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Siren: Blood Curse launched on 13 July 2008, within three weeks of Persona 4, Street Fighter IV, Battlefield: Bad Company and Rhythm Heaven. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Persona 4, Street Fighter IV, Battlefield: Bad Company, Rhythm Heaven.

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When did Siren: Blood Curse come out?
Siren: Blood Curse was released on 13 July 2008 for PlayStation 3.

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