Rumour: Fatal Frame IV Heading to US, Renamed?

By Jorge Ba-oh 04.02.2009 6

Rumour: Fatal Frame IV Heading to US, Renamed? on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

The Wii exclusive Fatal Frame may be heading to the US under a different branding, according to rumours.

According to GoNintendo, there's talk of the Tecmo/Grasshopper collaboration leaving Japan, but not following the US franchise name of Fatal Frame. The likely option would the Tecmo's decision to continue the franchise using the European/Japanese series title "Zero/Project Zero".

With the previous three games released globally, it's highly likely that there's truth to this rumour and survival horror fans in the US can grab their fix on Wii sometime this year or the next.

Box art for Project Zero: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Also known as

Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse

Developer

Grasshopper Manufacture

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

Horror

Players

1

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  8/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  10/10 (8 Votes)

European release date None   North America release date None   Japan release date Out now   Australian release date None   

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Angus is offline. Angus 04.02.2009#1

This is supposed to be out here this Friday under the Fatal Frame guise. The only place that seems to have it listed, however, is play.com, so I doubt it is actually out.

 
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RudyC3 is offline. RudyC3 04.02.2009#2

Well i'm still waiting for it to be released here, in Olde Europe. Supposed to be out this month. A must buy, no doubt about it.

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Wolvesgod is offline. Wolvesgod 04.02.2009#3

Wow that sounds nice, but why Zero?

When all is bad don't look for a easy way out. Because you wont know what to do once your out
 
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RudyC3 is offline. RudyC3 04.02.2009#4

project Zero is the name the series has beared since its first installment in Europe.

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Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 04.02.2009#5

I don't know why it was named Project Zero, but since it's the Japanese name (says jb), it's better then Fatal Frame. I don't like 'Fatal Frame' very much, it's a bit lurid...

And with a global name confusion may be stopped...

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
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RudyC3 is offline. RudyC3 04.02.2009#6

It may have had to be renamed in the US because the trademark "Project Zero" was already owned by someone else. Y'know, like the Starfox series in Europe (Starfox > Starwing / Starfox 64 > Lylat Wars) until the trademark wwas not owned anymore by its former owner and Nintendo could start naming Starfox games... well... "Starfox"... In Europe, like in the rest of the world.

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