Play{dot}com have a listing for “Siren: Blood Curse” (on Blu-ray disc for the PS3) being released on 31 October 2008:

[ http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation3/4-/6459565/-/Product.html ]

£17.99… and I still haven’t played the Asian import I bought in July!

BFN,

fp.

tks

[ http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-bp-49-en-70-2q0u.html ]

Hmmm… in convenience… I wonder if it will scare that much?

BFN,

fp.

If there are only ever going to be four chapters, what do we get for the extra 3p for the “full game”?
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Spot the issue with this statement…

[ http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/07/21/siren-blood-curse-to-terrorize-psn-for-40-15-each-episode-pa/ ]
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…The survival horror game will be downloadable for a discount price of only $40 for the entire game … or $15 for each episode pack. Each episode pack will contain four episodes, with each episode averaging about an hour or two of gameplay each. That’s 4-8 hours of gameplay for $15 each. Buy all three episode packs and save $5.
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“Siren” around the point of the pricing model for the US.

Let the moaning commence…

BFN,

fp.

As I mentioned above [@10], it is only planned in Japan/Asia at present.

FYI:
[ http://kotaku.com/5020139/how-to-get-siren-blood-curse-on-blu+ray ]
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The third game in the Siren series - Blood Curse - will be coming in two flavours. In Japan, you’ll be able to get it on Blu-Ray. But in the US? It’s being released as episodic, downloadable content, presumably in order to test the waters, see if there’s really a market for the game in the US. Fine for Sony, but what if you’re less a single-issue buyer, more a trade paperback kinda guy? Here’s what you do: import the Asian edition of the game, which also comes on a Blu-Ray disc. Like most Asian edition’s, it contains an English-language option, so you’ll have it all on one disc and be able to understand the thing. Win win!
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BFN,

fp.

[ http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=172394&page=2 ]
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“…Of course, the real question is whether Blood Curse is actually worth spending your money on. When we originally received these chapters for review, we were expecting them to be charged at a few pounds per chapter - and we were particularly wide-eyed about the first chapter, which is really just the prologue and doesn’t boast more than about 15 minutes of actual gameplay. Later chapters improve this significantly, and you’ll get easily 40 minutes apiece out of them - and much, much more if you subsequently replay on the game’s very challenging harder modes.”

Rating 9/10
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From PS3Fanboy.com…

[ http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/06/30/siren-blood-curse-episodes-will-average-around-600mb/ ]
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“…It appears each episode will average around 600 MB each… Considering that there are 12 episodes in total, expect to set aside a good 7.2 GB.”
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Ouch!

BFN,

fp.