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until last year’s allegedly final film the ‘Saw’ franchise was something of a
Halloween tradition, and is something that seems to have divided cinema goers.
Some see it as a lumbering dinosaur of a series that had long since worn out
it’s welcome, whereas others see it as nothing but shock whoring ‘torture
porn’. But there must have been some sort of a demand for it, since the series
ran for a total of seven films with many fans still hoping for an eighth. Then
again, this game got a sequel, too, so that’s probably less an indicator of
quality than it is an indicator of how many people are dumb enough to spend
money on something.
I’ll
put my hands up to personally being a fan of the films, though, mainly due it
having some fairly intelligent writing under all that gore and it’s sticking to
analogue special effects in a digital age, for the first seven movies at least.
Plus Tobin Bell’s performances each year were always the films’ saving grace.
One thing that EVERYBODY agrees on unanimously, though, is that the game freakin’
sucks and couldn’t be salvaged by a million Tobin Bells!
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