Hauntingly good tunes keep up the intense pace and fit extremely well with the images. Great cinema sequences appear throughout the game as the story develops, and the endings change depending on how well you do. To make matters even more oozy, most creatures gush green pus when you pummel them.

Other critters look like giant, bloody internal organs, and several lose their heads only to reveal bloody, multi-pronged tongues. Incredibly detailed severed hands fall from the ceiling. Splatter- house's best wackos and weirdos line up to take a shot at you in living color. This game's gory graphics will give you the creeps, and probably make horror flick fans feel right at home. That way, one final punch will do in the whole bunch.

Toss all your opponents to one side of the screen.

It's very important to study the Mansion Map and figure out the best route.

Make it through all six creep-infested floors and you face the Evil One in all-out bloody (and we mean bloody) fisticuffs. If this happens, what's left of your loved one's not a pretty sight. You can still clear the level if time runs out, but if the bosses get hungry waiting for you, they'll have a little snack. Just to up the ante, there's a time limit. The game play's simple: You have to punch, kick, and whack the green pus out of all the nasties you encounter, annihilate the end boss, and trek to the next floor. A quick glance at your handy map shows that a bloody 'X' marks the location of each floor's end-level boss, your ultimate destination. As Rick, you start there and clear the ghoul-infested rooms in any order. The adventure begins on the first floor of the mansion.

Sure, the action's still side-scrolling, but now you get to choose your route through the game. Splatterhouse 3 takes Splatterhouse 2's linear game play and gives it a gut-wrenching twist. Now, Rick's got to don his Mask and do some spring cleaning. In the process, the ghouls captured Rick's wife, Jennifer, and their son, David. This time he's sent his bunch o' blobs to infest Rick and Jennifer's new mansion. The Evil One's back for more messy fun and games. More levels, more beat-em-up moves.and more blood and guts.

The formula is the same as the original - only there's more of everything. Naturally, Namco's following up its success with a sequel, Splatterhouse 3. Splatterhouse 2 was a hack 'n' slash hit last year.

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