Posts Tagged ‘Saw’

Review: Saw (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Saturday, October 31st, 2009
And THIS happy little fellow is "The Gouger"...

And THIS happy little fellow is "The Gouger"...

The Charge:

One Saw that is overdue for sharpening.

Opening Statement:

The films all pretty much start the same way.  A person who has been taking their life for granted wakes up, their bodies usually wired into some sort of hell-born death machine.  There’s a maniac out there who wonders if these people even deserve the breath they draw without a single moment of joy.  And if they want to keep drawing breath, they’ll have to prove it to him.  This is the very core of the Saw franchise, a series of low-budget horror films that took the genre by the throat in 2004 and have produced a steady supply of screams for 5 years straight.  After bringing in more than a half a billion dollars worldwide, the grisly series has finally scored itself a videogame adaptation.  But does this Saw cut deep, or will gamers find themselves wondering if this is one of Jigsaw’s cruel tests? (more…)