Splatterhouse

 Xbox 360
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 78 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 53 out of 78
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 78
  3. Negative: 8 out of 78
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  1. TDK1984
    Nov 30, 2010
    7
    This game deserves a solid 7/10. I don't feel the visuals are overly impressive, but I feel that game play and a wonderful job by Jim Cummings as the "Mask" pull this game above mediocrity. I will admit that the load times in this game are horrendous (install to HD - it helps a bit), the platforming segments are a borefest, and the game difficulty is horribly inconsistent, but there isThis game deserves a solid 7/10. I don't feel the visuals are overly impressive, but I feel that game play and a wonderful job by Jim Cummings as the "Mask" pull this game above mediocrity. I will admit that the load times in this game are horrendous (install to HD - it helps a bit), the platforming segments are a borefest, and the game difficulty is horribly inconsistent, but there is something to be admired by this title. Perhaps it's like watching a horror film that seems cliche, too familiar, but at the same time we embrace that familiarity. I highly recommend as a weekend rental or a purchase once it drops to the $30 mark (a 5 hour campaign is NOT worth the asking price for this title). And I will warn people this game is crude, violent and shouldn't be played by minors.… Expand
  2. Makaveli
    May 13, 2012
    7
    Someone once told me that they didn't like this game because it had no story. WTF do you expect out of a game called "Splatter House" I've had the game for awhile andit's still fun to play. If you had a bad day at work, this game can be fun. It's not the best game ever. I'm just glad it's not Call of Duty..
  3. SargeGO
    May 25, 2011
    5
    The biggest problem with this game is that it is just way to repetitive. While the voice acting and story are not good at all, I could get over that if it was a fun beat-em-up. And for the first 30 minutes to and hour it was. It just got way to repetitive after that.
  4. SherlockHolmes
    Dec 8, 2010
    5
    Sorry to bust your bubble, but this game is not very good. At all. In fact it's pretty lousy. I don't know if some of the people who wrote reviews here worked on the game or what, but they are not being very nice. Tricking consumers into buying a lousy game is mean. Don't buy this turd. Rent it if you must, but save your money.
  5. NikeSh
    Jul 15, 2019
    7
    Об игре расскажу вкратце, т.к. особо говорить и нечего.
    Это мясной, кровавый, брутальный слешер.
    Всё прохождение вам придётся только рвать и метать врагов. Про сюжет говорить не буду, его здесь мало, иногда возникает ощущение что он исключительно для галочки. Визуально игра выглядит красиво, стильно, в первую очередь заинтересовала игра своей стилистикой. Геймплейно играется всё    Об игре расскажу вкратце, т.к. особо говорить и нечего.
    Это мясной, кровавый, брутальный слешер.
    Всё прохождение вам придётся только рвать и метать врагов.
    Про сюжет говорить не буду, его здесь мало, иногда возникает ощущение что он исключительно для галочки.
    Визуально игра выглядит красиво, стильно, в первую очередь заинтересовала игра своей стилистикой.
    Геймплейно играется всё весьма приятно, кроме момент когда игра превращается в платформер, в этот самый момент вы сразу же понимаете насколько не отзывчив ГГ и управление, когда вы не можете прыгнуть в нужное время, на нужную длину и начинаете всё по новой и ещё раз и снова, некоторые моменты проходил почти что с десятой попытки.
    Музыка драйвовая и наверняка известна многим, всегда играет в нужный момент.
    Также в игре интересные коллекционные предметы, это фотографии вашей девушки, в первое время вы их собираете не особо горя желанием, но каждый уровень фотка своя и в какой-то момент вы понимаете что уже пошли не просто фотографии, а обнажённые, и из чистого (кхм) интереса вы начинаете рыскать по уровню чтобы посмотреть что разработчики любезно оставили вам посмотреть.
    В общем, игра весьма неплохая, достаточно интересная, а местами дико сложная, месить врагов затягивает. Также игра почти не успевает надоесть, когда в тот самый момент когда она вас вымотала - игра заканчивается, всего в игре 12 глав.    … Expand
  6. JDConspirator
    Feb 28, 2011
    5
    Splatterhouse is fun in places and provides some slasher intrigue but it is repetitive and boring in terms of level design. The gameplay itself is underwhelming and unspectacular and the voice acting and narrative elements are atrocious. The soundtrack adds to the immersiveness of being in a violent and scary place but the game can be summed up as not being as hard as it thinks it is, theSplatterhouse is fun in places and provides some slasher intrigue but it is repetitive and boring in terms of level design. The gameplay itself is underwhelming and unspectacular and the voice acting and narrative elements are atrocious. The soundtrack adds to the immersiveness of being in a violent and scary place but the game can be summed up as not being as hard as it thinks it is, the boss battles are easy beat em up squabbles and in general the game lacks challenge.… Expand
  7. Benny_Hahna
    Dec 1, 2010
    7
    Not too shabby! Not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it's entertaining and pretty fierce. The story and the graphics are really solid. The characters are brought to life by some top notch voice overs though. If rated for the acting alone this would be a 10! The game play suffers a little from clunkiness but is not too bad and once you get used to the controls it's fairly good.Not too shabby! Not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it's entertaining and pretty fierce. The story and the graphics are really solid. The characters are brought to life by some top notch voice overs though. If rated for the acting alone this would be a 10! The game play suffers a little from clunkiness but is not too bad and once you get used to the controls it's fairly good. Does take some getting used to though. I like this and will likely play through again sometime.… Expand
  8. kabulce
    Dec 20, 2010
    6
    if is now 2009 this game will be real hit , but in time with games with so good graphics scene , so good gameplay , interesting stories, this game look like some try to go with something non-seen in the other games and that is it. If you like blood everywhere on the screen , gore and again blood on the screen you'll get it here, I played this game 45min and I newer got a desire to play again.
  9. SFN
    Jan 4, 2011
    6
    a reboot of the 1980 arcade series game sounds good right? wrong, even thou this game is a improvement of the 1980 series it still has its problems , and i will admit i liked the storyline of the game and i also like how you use blood to do move called a splatter kill which means you can tear oppents in half or pop their head like a pimple and the game might see fun at first but aftera reboot of the 1980 arcade series game sounds good right? wrong, even thou this game is a improvement of the 1980 series it still has its problems , and i will admit i liked the storyline of the game and i also like how you use blood to do move called a splatter kill which means you can tear oppents in half or pop their head like a pimple and the game might see fun at first but after about a hour or so, it gets repeitiive and boring, its the same thing over and over again, you fight a room full of enemys, you move to the next and what do you know, a room full of enemys is waiting for you, theyn miss it up by dding weapons to the mix but the weapons seem to do nothing for you, and yeah you might get a few kills with it but then it breaks and you have nothing now, they also added power ups which you buy and even thou it adds more to fighting in this game but the more you progess the harder the enemys get and the more frustrated you get, the game is ok for what it is and is better than the original games but it fails to show you the brightness of a new game because its just a beat'em up type game and we all know it gets boring after awhile… Expand
  10. aryanrule
    Mar 10, 2011
    6
    Beat-em up until your A button crashes. Nice atmosphere and great acting, lots of gore which is excellent. Sound and graphics are great in this remake, so it should be played. but...deja-vu game...
  11. GodBleeder
    Jul 31, 2011
    6
    Splatterhouse is exactly like the old Splatterhouse titles on the Genesis/Mega-drive. It's a dumb but fun, button masher for people looking to break a £20 note. In some ways it transcends the old school Splatterhouse, and in others it does not.

    With the flat sprite sliding visuals gone, you're greeted by more atmospheric visuals but also,an awful camera, and some inconsistent    Splatterhouse is exactly like the old Splatterhouse titles on the Genesis/Mega-drive. It's a dumb but fun, button masher for people looking to break a £20 note. In some ways it transcends the old school Splatterhouse, and in others it does not.

    With the flat sprite sliding visuals gone, you're greeted by more atmospheric visuals but also,an awful camera, and some inconsistent textures. You get more moves to splat your foes, but some are just crap and not worth using. Another way in which it remains faithful, is the way in which it copies it's peers to a T. If Splatterhouse was trying to harvest some of the success of Streets Of Rage and Golden Axe, then it is most certainly now jumping on the God Of War band-wagon. Pulling levers, upgrading your combos, unleashing special power meters and initialising brutal quick-time finishers.

    This is the 3D beat 'em up template. For the most part it's a bloody good laugh. But there are some chinks in the terror mask that can make it a little annoying at times. On the back of the case, (the European case atleast) it reads, "THE UNMISTAKABLE SOUND OF TEARING FLESH". Sadly, the sound in the weakest thing in the game, and in my mind the one thing that really drags it down. All of the sounds, including the music are poorly mixed, the volume is all over the place. One minute the mask is shouting directions at you, the next you can only hear a faint mumbling, upon which the optional subtitles become essential. A punch is louder than a door being smashed, a creaking floor-board is louder than someone's head being forcibly removed. What good is squeezing some one's head until it blows-up if all you get is a muted squelch like someone manipulated jelly in there hands. Where are the snaps, the splats and the crunches. It takes away from the otherwise hilarious mayhem.

    Another final, but small issue, is the special meter. When it is partly filled you can harvest blood from enemies at any time to heal yourself. Fill it up and you can multiply your strength and go mental for 60 seconds. Problem is, it's pointless. When the minute is up, your meter is drained, so no more healing until you can pull off a big finisher. As for the going mental part? You can kill everything with a single hit, but you become so slow, enemies just evade you until it wears off, and there are never enough enemies on screen at once to make it worth doing.

    So crank up the volume, put on the subtitles, don't bother with the "Hulk smash" button and get splatting!    … Expand
  12. ULTRAPARANOID
    Jan 24, 2020
    7
    "I love this ride!"

    I mean, this game is awesome. I played it much times on PS3 and X360, and 100% completed this on both platforms. The gore looks amazing. Best voice work I've ever heard. Jim Cummings as Terror Mask is incredible! (Winnie-the-Pooh **** you all the time -- what could be better?) Fighting mechanics are great -- beating and slashing are really enjoyable, and splatterkills    "I love this ride!"

    I mean, this game is awesome. I played it much times on PS3 and X360, and 100% completed this on both platforms. The gore looks amazing. Best voice work I've ever heard. Jim Cummings as Terror Mask is incredible! (Winnie-the-Pooh **** you all the time -- what could be better?)

    Fighting mechanics are great -- beating and slashing are really enjoyable, and splatterkills are beautiful, but them not enough.

    Graphics are good. Comic style is cool. But last levels of the game looks bad -- the lighting is awful. In the dark corners it looks very beautiful, but in the open air it sucks.

    The story is good, and unfinished. Now we know why Dr. West is a **** and why he kidnapped Jen, and how the Mask found Rick. It's bad that's we will never see the second part of this game. It have some perspectives. Refereces are great -- horror movies and Lovecraft's stories that added with fan love -- from horror fans to horror fans.

    I love this game, really. But bugs and other flaws are prevent me from rating above 7. It's a good project and great remake, I think you must try it at least once.

    X360 version looks better than PS3 version. You can install the game on your system and it will be work faster and better. But sometimes (I don't know why) this game may be crashed. After 2 phases it may lagged, and you will need restart your system. It happens, but very rarely, and yeah, on both systems.    … Expand

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#45 Most Discussed Xbox 360 Game of 2010
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#62 Most Shared Xbox 360 Game of 2010

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Metascore
62

Mixed or average reviews - based on 51 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 38 out of 51
  3. Negative: 4 out of 51
  1. Console Monster
    Jan 30, 2011
    65
    Splatterhouse is a strange one because there will be times when you will be having a ball, ripping limbs from zombie clowns or shoving your hand down a gremlins throat, but at other times the frustration of dying on the side scrolling levels and having to wait ages for the game to load up again is beyond words.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 15, 2011
    50
    Take a meatchopper and use it on raw piece of meat for 10 minutes. Then ask yourself if you've enjoyed it. If YES, Splatterhouse is a perfect match for you. [Issue#199]
  3. GameCritics
    Jan 11, 2011
    65
    While there's no getting around the fact that Splatterhouse feels like something that could have significantly benefited from another six months in the oven, it's not hard to see that the developers have solid ideas that are on the right track.
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