Forbidden Siren being remade for PS3

By Robert Purchese Published 16 April, 2008

Japanese demo due this month.

The bloody countdown timer on the Sony Japan site is for a fresh Siren game on PS3.

Japanese magazine Famitsu (translated by Kotaku) unearthed the game's title as Siren New Translation, and said it would be a reworking of Forbidden Siren from 2003.

Apparently those in Japan can expect the game as early as July, with a demo due out on 24th April.

Unfortunately Sony Europe offered no comment on the game's Western whereabouts.

Forbidden Siren was dreamt up by the director of Silent Hill, Keiichiro Toyama, and was wonderfully bonkers if a little tricky to get into. It went a little unnoticed, bizarrely, but both it and its sequel are worth looking into.

Pop over to our Forbidden Siren and Forbidden Siren 2 reviews for a bit more of all that.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Triggerhappytel #1 4 years ago

    Being a fan of Silent Hill, I've always meant to check out the FS games, but never got around to it. Hopefully the PS3 version will be good, and will see an EU release.

  • Tejstar #2 4 years ago

    There are rumours that this will be a remake of the first game and come come to the PS3 in episodic form…

  • betahoven #3 4 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:36:16 17-12-2011

  • Kiigan #4 4 years ago

    Awesome - let's hope they restore the Japanese voices for the western release and lose the cockney accents...

  • HermitArcader #5 4 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:17:39 22-12-2011

  • Apologie #6 4 years ago

    SHIT... i can't believe it, another great title... my anorexic wallet will beg for mercy, possibly another instant buy for me, along with Haze, MGS4, Killzone2, REsistance2, Motorstorm2, Little ig Planet, GTA4 etc... keep 'em coming Sony.
    Edited by 1 at 16/04/08 @ 17:31

  • BBIAJ #7 4 years ago

    Rented it - hated it: No thank-you!

  • space_ace #8 4 years ago

    sony pet projects huh... then where's ico and colossus (good framerate version) on ps3? :)

  • M83J01P97 #9 4 years ago

    I loved the idea of totally mixing up the order of the narrative in the original game, made it kind of feel like a nice cross between a David Lynch film and Silent Hill. But yeah, sadly that awful American dub ruined the game.

  • drumbaby #10 4 years ago

    Cool...currently playing (and for the first time really enjoying/ appreciating) RE4 on my PS3...so am in the mood for some more survival horror.

    Would prefer RE4 remake/ RE5 though :)

  • JediMasterMalik #11 4 years ago

    I'd love more re-makes of, good but flawed games on the PSN, provided they updated graphics and fixed the flaws of course. I think it's an excellent idea, especially for games which a lot of people may not have played.

  • Triggerhappytel #12 4 years ago

    Yeah, building on JMM's comment, let's have an updated downloadable Primal, Mark of Kri and Sly Cooper, please Sony. Get these decent-but-underrated titles to the masses!

  • hybridial #13 4 years ago

    I absolutely hated this game. Horror game + snipers who never miss = no thanks.

  • Feanor #14 4 years ago

    "sadly that awful American dub ruined the game."

    It was a British dub, wasn't it? Hence the comments in this thread about cockney accents.

  • penhalion #15 4 years ago

    FS was a good concept but, you pretty much had to be psychic to complete it. A lot of deaths were from things you couldn't possibly have seen coming. Think back to the Tomb raider 2 style of sudden death from nowhere syndrome.

  • Mashum #16 4 years ago

    ...I'm already shitting myself at the mere thought of it... brrrr...

  • krudster #17 4 years ago

    A game that was about a million times better if you played it with a guide, I subsequently found out.

  • space_ace #18 4 years ago

    A game that was about a million times better if you played it with a guide, I subsequently found out.

    like lair?

  • DUFFMAN5 #19 4 years ago

    The second is a lot more enjoyable and playable. i still have a copy.

  • Mashum #20 4 years ago

    Agreed, I remember the first being too hard and I didn't have the patience for it. The second was much better, but still pretty tough at times.

    I wonder how they'll do the faces this time? The projected on and statically shadowed photos of face parts that worked so well previously might be a tough sell in HD.

  • NumberNone #21 4 years ago

    'sony pet projects huh... then where's ico and colossus (good framerate version) on ps3? :)'

    Updates of Ico and SotC would be fantastic. As both games only need a HD overhaul, how hard could that be? A disc version with both games on it for PS3 with HD visuals would get my money :)

  • Darren #22 4 years ago

    I remember playing and enjoying the demo of the first game on the PS2 shortly before I sold my machine on so I never got the chance to play the full game. Thus I'd be interested in buying the remake provided it isn't a lazy port with shite graphics otherwise I might as well buy the originals and play them on my PS3!

  • DAN.E.B #23 4 years ago

    @ Apologie
    i dont know what great new titles are coming to the PS3 this year could you do one of your daily helpful lists for me please?

    oh wait...........

  • Hypercube #24 4 years ago

    Only played the first. Very atmospheric, genuinely eerie, but the wacky timeline and very unforgiving nature means it's never been finished by me.
    Although it's in the pile of "games I must finish before I buy another console". It's just under Final Fantasy XII...