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Countdown Vampires (PS)

Description: Genre: Action / Developer: Ban Dai / In Countdown Vampires, you play Keith Snyder, a tattooed celebrity bodyguard who ... more

Countdown Vampires (PS) ... has come to the ritzy Desert Moon Hotel on New Year's Eve 1999. When a fire starts in the hotel, the ceiling sprinklers go off. Rather than spray water, they drop an oozing dark liquid all over the glamorous guests. This liquid, whatever it is, turns the other guests into vampires. Now it's your job to find an antidote while fending off preying bloodsuckers, flesh-eating zombies, and bone-crushing monsters. Through the game you'll explore eight different locations--from woodland areas to bars to casino floors--to solve the mystery.

Newest Review: ... and well-spaced save points that fortunately don't require the collection of typewriter ribbons or any other such frivolities ... more

... to use them. There's more to a game than manoeuvrability and aesthetics however, and sadly elsewhere CV starts to feel uninspired. Whilst the inclusion of puzzles is always welcome in survival-horror games, Countdown Vampires' efforts seem almost deliberately hackneyed. They range from the utterly banal find-a-key-to-a-room-with-another-key train of the thought, to some extremely difficult code/password locks that, even in hindsight, seem obscure in their logic. It often makes hard work of simple situations; an e...more

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Countdown Vampires (PS): In Need Of ReVAMPing? (1202 words)
by - written on 29/12/07 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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Equipped with a trio of great Resident Evil's and the mother of all scare fests in Silent Hill, the PlayStation certainly wasn't short of quality games to represent its new-found survival-horror genre, as it emerged as perhaps the first generation of games console to have the capacity to truly scare the player. And following the massive success of the aforementioned titles, it stood to reason that many imitators would arise. Surprisingly though, whilst many titles would mimic the distinctive controls and pre-rendered environments that were so popular in the mid-late nineties, few would go onto emphasise the 'horror' element. Countdown Vampires, released in ... Read the complete review