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This time the main protagonist is female freelance photographer (handy, that) Rei Kurosawa, with intermittent playable roles dished out to Rei's personal assistant Miku Hinasaki (the heroine of the first game) and later Kei Amakura, a friend of Rei's dead fiancé Yuu (and also the uncle of Mio, one of the main characters in the second game). The latest in the series neatly ties up various loose ends, introduces new 'victims' to the increasingly thickening plot, brings back old faces from previous games and conjures yet another gripping ghostly tale that's much, much longer than the previous games (our first run-through pushed 30 hours of punishing slog). Yes, Tecmo is stuck its own little time warp, just as Capcom was content to be for so many Resident Evil incarnations, and has produced a fine game that stays doggedly rooted in past game design conventions: a classic fan's-own conclusion to a wonderful trilogy, but one that snags on a few old-school quirks that conspire to take the shine off what is obviously an excellent game. Shine off Come on Miku, she's behind you.

Tecmo has done what do many developers do: made roughly the same game again, added a few nice new features, padded out the content a bit and said 'thankyouverymuchthat'llbefiftyEuroplease'. But cruel, heartless reviewers that we are, we have to douse the exuberance in a few tears of regret. You might reasonably ask that if it's so goddamned brilliant then why only an eight? Sure, in survival-horror I've-completed-all-six-Resis and all-four-Silent Hills-uberfan's parlance, it's a nailed-on must buy. Job done, go and buy it (on 24th February, before you ask). In the words of Simon Pegg: Skip to the end. Now that we've got our traditional Exasperated Commercial Failure(TM) rant over with (and in record time! First paragraph!), the basic gist is that the latest in the hugely admired Fatal Frame/Project Zero series is absolutely brilliant as well.

Now onto its fourth European publisher, we can only hope that Take-Two recognises the strength of the series and can do a little more than push it into the dark recesses of store shelves when it finally gets its belated release across the continent next month. No matter how many rave reviews the Project Zero games seem to get over here, a mixture of publisher indifference, retailer apathy and consumer foolishness has maddeningly conspired to completely scupper any chance of Tecmo's superb survival-horror series selling in Europe.

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