Gregory Horror Show – PS2 – Preview

E3 2003 – Hands
On

 

Gregory Horror
Show is a horror game based on a popular card game in Japan. The game starts
with the main character (you) checking into a hotel run by Gregory, a goofy yet
creepy rat. You soon find out that you can’t check out of the hotel until you
have collected all of the souls of your fellow cute, crazy animal guests. 

 

The interesting
graphics of Gregory Horror Show may turn a lot of gamers off, but my advice is
to look past the graphics and experience the gameplay. Gregory Horror Show
focuses more on how you can collect everyone’s soul by using sly techniques and
distractions. A big part of finding out how to get souls is to watch a
character’s actions and patterns to exploit their weaknesses and catch them off
guard. But once you get a guest’s soul, they come after you in hopes of trapping
you in the hotel forever.

 

The controls are
very simple. One button does most of the required tasks in the game, like
talking to people or searching for items. A lot of the game is sniffing out
clues, so you’ll have skills like peeping through keyholes to help you gather
evidence on certain characters. The camera always seems to be in the right
place, too.

 

Even though
Gregory Horror Show is very comical and cartoony, it can get fairly creepy at
times. This was definitely one of the more interesting games at the show, and I
don’t mean that in a bad way. The release date for Gregory Horror Show is still
TBD.