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Siren: Blood Curse priced and dated for Europe

by Jem Alexander on Jul 4th 2008 12:00PM

ThreeSpeech has the scoop on when we can expect Siren: Blood Curse to hit the European PSN Store, as well as how much we will be spending on this episodic horror. We're not sure what Sony's understanding of "episodic" is, but we were expecting something a little bit different to what's been described. Siren will be split into four chapters, each containing three episodes of the game, but the strange part is that all four chapters will be made available on the same day -- July 24th.

I guess we can't complain now that we know we won't have to wait in between episodes, but we can't help but wonder why they've bothered with splitting the game up at all. Why not just release it all as one? When the game releases you'll be able to pick up each chapter for £4.99 (no sign of a price in Euros, sorry!), with all four chapters bundled together for £19.99. Pro tip: Buy them all separately and you'll save 3p. That's three penny sweets!

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Tags: europe, Siren, Siren-blood-curse, threespeech

Reader Comments (14)

Sounds somewhat of a marketing ploy. Lots of people will pick up the first episode to "try it out". The total of these increased number of transactions may be greater than what the amount would have been if it was released as a normal singular release.

so wait is this coming out for the us?!

ugh

Why are you upset? Did you import it already?

He's upset because he doesn't know any information about the US release.

We're all a little upset : (

So we don't have to buy each episode seperately? Anyway this is much cheaper than expected, really looking forward to this.

Sony do some strange things. What was the point in making it episodic if they all come out at once? I think everyone will just buy them all the same day. I know i will.

Maybe they are trying to test the market of Store games vs downloads ( store games need more money... they need to make a BD then make the package...then ship it to every store). Thats why the game is cheaper to download...

Hey! if the total download is like 5gb... im guessing the BD need a mandatory 5g Install lol :P just joking..oh! and sorry for my english. from mexico here!

i could be wrong, but for some reason, i'm assuming that it'll only be the european store where they'll all be released on the same day. for all i know, scea could release them the same way here, but i just get the feeling this is more of scee not trying as hard as the other divisions.

For some reason, I get the feeling this is just another example of SCEE being lazier than the other Sony divisons. While I wouldn't mind it being this way when it comes to the States, I don't think they'll do it this way here. But I could be wrong. Would probably prefer to be wrong, honestly. lol

That is kinda stupid.. :P I wont be getting this anyways, unless is MAD FUN AND SCARY!

The idea of an episodic game is to release an episode periodically, like on a weekly basis... to create hype.. i just hope this does not turn out to be another flop.. tire of those. I really hope this works out for the best.

Why would anyone care if they are released at the same time? Of all the things you can whine about...

Well I'll just buy them all... I was hoping for like a chapter a week, could have lasted 12 weeks... or with the four three-chapter packs (like they are doing) one every 2 weeks would have been eight weeks... oh well... I guess it's episodic... you don't have to buy them all @ once...

I'm looking forward to the game, but I was kinda looking forward to getting it once a month or something like that, so its kinda like a tv show or miniseries that shows a big plot point then you have to wait for the next episode, where waiting is part of the fun. I guess it'll be good to have the full game at once, but I was kinda looking forward to it actually being episodic, and this decision makes me wonder if they doubt how immersive the game actually is, maybe they think people would loose interest if it was episodic, but I hope that isnt true.

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