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Saw
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Based on 36 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Zombie
Genre(s): Third-Person Action, Survival Horror
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Summary
Jigsaw has killed your partner and destroyed your life. Now he has trapped you in an abandoned insane asylum that he alone controls. If you can defeat his brutal traps and survive, you may just discover the truth behind what drives this twisted serial killer. SAW is a third-person perspective, survival horror game based on the SAW film franchise. The game features many of the deadly mechanical traps seen in the film, as well as terrifying new ones. Players pit their wits against Jigsaw as they navigate his world in an attempt to evade and escape his gruesome traps, while also struggling against his minions in brutal combat by using weapons found within the environment. SAW, the video game, is based on a treatment from Zombie Studios and the creators of the SAW franchise, Leigh Whannell and James Wan. The timeline for the game takes place between the movies: SAW and SAW II, giving the game its own story, yet fitting within the narratives of the movies. The story centers on Detective David Tapp who awakens in a decrepit, abandoned asylum. He has been captured by his longtime nemesis, Jigsaw. Obsessed with catching this serial killer, Tapp’s mission has consumed him and ruined his family, resulting in divorce, mental imbalance, and abandonment. Worse yet, this frantic hunt destroyed Tapp’s career while he watched his long-time friend and partner get killed by one of Jigsaw’s traps. Now Jigsaw has the upper hand and has captured the detective. Tapp must play a deadly game - the likes of which he has been investigating for years - to escape, and in order to do so he must survive the lethal traps and puzzles that Jigsaw has put in place for him and others. But each victim has a dark connection to Tapp. Will Tapp save them? Can he survive his obsession to find the Jigsaw killer? [Konami]
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What The Critics Said
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GamingXP
Saw isn’t the great experience, but at least it is a good game if you remind yourself that it is based on a movie.
Read Full Review >WonderwallWeb
A great game that will grip you to the end but sadly let down by some awkward fights. Fans of the film will not be disappointed.
Read Full Review >IGN
Saw is a welcome entry in the horror genre that provides a good dosage of thrills. Depending on your tolerance for repetition, it's a good way to test your nerves and scare yourself silly during a dark and stormy night.
Read Full Review >Games Master UK
A genuinely decent adaptation of the films. Repetitive and gruesome, but hugely evocative. [Winter 2009, p.85]
PSFocus
A good adaption of the movies with fine gameplay. The audio and graphics aren’t really special and the gameplay may be a little bit repetitive but overall a nice game.
Read Full Review >PS3bloggen.se
If you look beyond the fighting parts you'll find a great game for the fans of the series. For all others, the puzzles and the story is still challenging enough for it to be worth your while.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
The game should take you anywhere from 6 to 10 hours to complete, depending on your willingness to see every nook and cranny of the game. You also are privy to two endings in the game, and thankfully the game saves right before your final decision so you can witness both endings without necessarily taking another trip through the game.
Read Full Review >Gamervision
Saw, as a tie-in to the series, is wonderful. As a survival horror game, however, it's a much smaller success. A success, mind you, but a small success, and one that doesn't rely on any knowledge of the Saw series to enjoy.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
This flawed horror adventure gets the atmosphere right, though it isn't as sharp as it could have been.
Read Full Review >Vandal Online
It's an original proposal with a very good atmosphere, but fails in making interesting the setting and the development.
Read Full Review >PSM3 Magazine UK
Overall A few good puzzles but too bleak and repetitive with poor combat.
Read Full Review >GameTrailers
What originally looked like another throwaway movie to video game tie-in is a surprisingly well conceived horror story. The combat is Saw's biggest weakness, with the replay value a close second.
Read Full Review >Multiplayer.it
This is a game that surely captures some of the hot spots which made the movie a cult one. Problems arise when you think about the not so satisfying combat system, the repetitive puzzles and the less than average graphics. If you are a real Saw fan you may actually consider a purchase.
Read Full Review >3DJuegos
With a boring and unresponsive combat and nice but derivative puzzles Saw, the videogame, is recommendable just for fans of the movies.
Read Full Review >Play.tm
With the exception of the combat nearly every part of Saw the Game works in isolation. The visual styling is an excellent reiteration of the sets, and the recreation of the movie ordeals is handled well, including such classics as bobbing for a key in a toilet full for syringes or going swimming in vats of liquefied pigs guts. However, as soon as the player is forced to repeat the trials and traps over and over, down identical grimy corridors, pestered by identical combat instances, the excellent head start is blown and what started as a smartly made, genuinely scary experience degenerates into unimaginative straight-to-DVD splatter, gorily painting by its own repeated numbers.
Read Full Review >Telegraph
Fans of the film series may find the video game adaptation of Jigsaw's latest round of lethal morality tests diverting, but true blue console horror fans are better off waiting for something with a bit more bite.
Read Full Review >XGN
While playing this game you will notice the simplicity of the puzzles. And because of the bad sound, the game isn't scary at all, what it should have been of course. Therefore Saw: The Videogame is disappointing.
Read Full Review >Gamer.nl
While Saw becomes a bit repetitive towards the end of the game, it has surprised us in a positive way. The game has a good story, oozes with the typical horror-flick vibe and a lot of the characters and bizarre contraptions of the movies have made their way in the game. The gameplay itself however is pretty frustrating. But if you love the movies and want more, this might begin to fill your thirst for blood.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer Spain
It's a shame that things turned out this way: the game had potential and you can see glimpses of quality, but for the most part Saw is repetitive and imperfect.
Read Full Review >Playstation Official Magazine UK
Saw is strong when it comes to setting an intense and intimidating atmosphere. [Christmas 2009, p.110]
Boomtown
What could have been a really excellent horror game, perhaps the first actually based on a film license, is sadly rendered mediocre by the design work.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
Saw fails to deliver the suspenseful crescendos, surprising twists, and apprehensive atmosphere of the films. Instead, it’s padded with unremarkable gore, poor pacing, and uninspired level design.
Read Full Review >Giant Bomb
The game puts on a pretty good facade, affecting many of Saw's stylistic flares. There's lots of jarring camera shake, motion blur, and patchy focus effects, and the soundtrack is all industrial clangs and squeals, but in the end it's all window-dressing for a game that has more in common with Professor Layton than Condemned.
Read Full Review >Playstation: The Official Magazine (US)
Based upon the gory horror movie franchise, SAW is a remarkable good puzzle game with a license that it actually doesn't need. [Holiday 2009, p.74]
TheSixthAxis
I so wanted this to be much more than it ended up being: I’ll happily rewatch all of the Saw movies back to back each year, but probably won’t head back into the video game unless Konami patch in better combat.
Read Full Review >GameShark
The puzzles are easily the game’s most enjoyable aspect, as the combat is underwhelming with few exceptions and exploring the linear facility isn’t tense or frightful.
Read Full Review >SpazioGames
Saw The Videogame surely has some good ideas, but the implementation is really bad, as you'll find yourself wanting the dead of your alter ego frustrated by his inability to execute your command. Nothing here for gamers, maybe just for the most avid fans.
Read Full Review >Play UK
A pale imitation of a good survival-horror game. [Issue#186, p.83]
Eurogamer
With just six short chapters to wade through, Saw is never in any danger of outstaying its welcome, despite its flaws, and that's probably just as well. Its puzzle-centric design is satisfying for a while, but the game's reliance on the same stock challenges wears thin, as does the hilariously broken combat.
Read Full Review >Teletext GameCentral
Not the worst tie-in of the year but one that runs out of ideas even more quickly than the films.
Read Full Review >VideoGamer
If you're after a game on a par with the likes of Resident Evil and Silent Hill, you'll find Saw severely lacking.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
In the end this game feels less like a thrilling adventure and more like an eight to ten hour endurance test. It's a good looking game, though the visuals will never 'wow'.
Read Full Review >1UP
Saw's derivative gameplay -- which even includes sliding around crates (or racks of frozen pig carcasses) and searching dressers for hidden valves to shut down nearby pipes spewing hot gas (did that happen this often in the movies?) -- has all been done before, and done better by titles like Silent Hill and Condemned.
Read Full Review >GameSpy
It's just a crappy movie tie-in, pushed out just in time for the upcoming film.
Read Full Review >games(TM)
As an extra disc to a six-film box set its existence is just about justified, but placed against a slew of superior titles it offers nothing more than an evening's mild distraction. [Christmas 2009, p.128]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Johnathan M gave it a6:
Rent it. Don't buy it. It's too short and has little replay value. It's a bit formula how you make your way around. Essentially there are about 5 different kinds of puzzles, and once in a while there is a main puzzle which is quite different. The combat is majorly flawed, but you are fighting very often, the challenge is the puzzles. A game like this should be hard to navigate based on the size of the asylum, but Jigsaw often seals the doors behind you until you finish what you need to finish in a room before leaving, which is good.
