


The action takes place on a single scrolling plane, monsters graciously hesitate before attacking, and your masked hero can jump, duck, and perform a couple of different punches and kicks. When it comes to beat-'em-up games, Splatterhouse shares the most in common with the simpler ones, such as Altered Beast and Vigilante. Furthermore, Splatterhouse is the kind of simplistic, repetitive beat-'em-up that you'll play for about 15 minutes before moving on to something else.īefore Mortal Kombat came along, Splatterhouse was considered overly gruesome.

However, before you rush off to spend 600 Wii points ($6) on it, you may want to consider that it's the TurboGrafx-16 version, which is considerably less bloody and gruesome than the arcade version that you probably remember seeing back in the day. Namco's late-'80s slasher game, Splatterhouse, is now available for download and play on the Wii's Virtual Console.
