Well, video game publishing company Konami is hoping your answer to that question is yes. I've always said there isn't enough horror movie licensed video games on the market. So it's good to see some love being paid here but is this too little too late? Saw the video game hits stores October 6th and we have some never before seen screen caps of the game to help tide you over....

Follow up:

Normally movie licensed video games are about as much fun as watching grass grow but we are keeping our fingers crossed that this could actually start a trend and more and more horror franchises will jump on the video game market. Can we not get a good Friday the 13th or Halloween game on the next gen consoles?

This Saw game takes place between the first and second Saw films, shortly after Dr. Lawrence Gordon and Adam Faulkner's trap concludes at the end of the first film. David Tapp, a cop who was shot in the chest, was healed and brought to an abandoned insane asylum. The building contains many traps and victims left in place by the Jigsaw Killer to test Tapp and his "survival instinct". The asylum itself has many sections. There is a morgue, cold storage, security wing, washrooms, offices, and other areas. A large part of the asylum are cells that held the criminally insane before it was condemned and abandoned.

GAMEPLAY:

Saw is primarily a third-person survival horror game with action elements. The player controls David Tapp, a former detective trapped in the Jigsaw Killer's asylum filled with traps. The primary goal of the game is to traverse the asylum and solve traps and defeat hostile prisoners in order to escape alive. Tapp will have several abilities in the game to fulfill his objectives such as searching things like toilets, dead bodies, nurse's carts, and nightstands to find things like weapons, health, clues, or others.] There are also various things hidden around the asylum that can be found to provide background on why Tapp is there and other information on Jigsaw and others. Many of these come in the form of "Jigsaw Notes" left behind or cassette tapes found laying around, similar to the "Holotapes" and notes found in Fallout 3.

The player being prompted to control the in-game character. A close-up camera angle is used to aid the player in completing a task.The game's combat system allows the character to block, counter-attack, and perform weak and strong attacks to fend off enemies in the asylum. Tapp will have a variety of weapons and resources available to him such as lead pipes, scalpels, crutches, or just bare fists. Certain weapons may also be used for other purposes such as cutting open a body to search it or breaking down a molding wall to reveal hidden paths. Similar to the Condemned series, weapons in the game deplete over time in real time until they are rendered unusable. Tapp's health bar, once depleted, can only be restored by hypos which can be stored in an inventory.

Dread central reveals that Saw will in fact have an online multiplayer component because, "working together will help you survive The Game." The extent of the multiplayer has yet to be revealed except that it will be online through Xbox Live and Playstation Network. At certain points in the game, the player will be joined by AI teammates that will help Tapp in certain tests or areas. At many points in the story, there are multiple paths that can be taken to avoid certain areas or uncover hidden items. The game can be played at two difficulty settings; normal and hard.

A few minigames have been incorporated into the game. These include a searching minigame in which an X-ray view is given to avoid dangers like razors or syringes and grabbing a key before a "Pain meter" fills and wounds Tapp. There is also a lockpicking minigame in which he must turn the dials of a lock so that they all match to successfully unlock the door. Finally, there are doors rigged with shotguns attached to pulleys littered all around the asylum. As soon as opening such a door, the player must press a randomly assigned button before the pulley falls too far to avoid the gun discharging. There are also puzzles called "environmental traps", in which Tapp must use different elements in the environment, the in-game camera, or go to certain locations to accomplish a task. This game will be available on the XBOX 360 and Playsation 3 gaming systems.


Now onto the new SCREEN SHOTS of actual gameplay footage and Jigsaw himself:

Updated screen shots of the game in action: (updated 9/21/09)

SO YAY OR NAH? ARE YOU READY TO PLAY THIS GAME?