PS2 Horror Game Siren Coming to PSN Tuesday

Survival horror game Siren is getting its chance to be introduced to an all-new generation of gamers. The game will come out this coming Tuesday and former executive producer and vice president of WWS Japan Studio Takafumi Fujisawa took the time to talk about his experience with creating the game.

"We were on a mission to formulate a form of fear or horror that would resonate with an audience regardless of their cultural background, and to deliver that from a very intentionally Japanese perspective. Thorough studies sprung our inspirations, which then became our core for producing SIREN. No room for compromise, but plenty of room for the sense of playful creativity, we progressed to develop a Japanese Modern Horror that could reach out and be appreciated by the world."

Fujisawa noted that popular horror movie director Sam Raimi had approached them to make an adaptation of the game, though he did not say what became of this offer. There is however a Japanese film adaptation of the game called Forbidden Siren that was released to coincide with Siren's sequel in 2006.

The 2004 PlayStation 2 game was released to generally positive reviews, with praise particularly on the storyline and of the unique graphics. These took real human faces and photographed eight different angles, which were then placed on the character models. The largest criticism was that the game could be frustrating and difficult.