Should you grab this on PSN?
The 3rd Birthday is the third game in the Parasite Eve series, I’ve already reviewed Parasite Eve 1, and Parasite Eve 2, so I thought I might as well finish off the trilogy, continue on to the review of this PSP game.
Original release: March 29th 2011 (NA)
PSN Price: 19.99
Developed by: Hexa Drive
Published by: Square Enix
Parasite Eve 2 Boxart
Once again you play as the protagonist from the first game, Aya Brea, formerly at New York City cop, now working for the Feds after the events of Parasite Eve. This time you’re part of a task force that finds strange mutated monsters and shoots them. This takes you all over to different locations in the States, but it also gets rid of the open world and colourful setting of New York City as seen in the first game. Really, I haven’t played all the way through the title so I couldn’t tell you if the story is worth experiencing or not, but you’ll see my problem with it when you look at the next section.
Box Art for Parasite Eve 2
After months of wait and being the last territory in the world to get the title, Parasite Eve 2 is coming to the PSone Classics this tuesday as part of the weekly Playstation Store update. Parasite Eve 2 follows the story of Aya Brea a New York City detective who somehow got some pretty awesome psychic powers. If you’re looking to see what the first game in the series is like you can check out our review of Parasite Eve 1 here.
Parasite Eve
Original Release date: September 9th 1998
PSN release date: March 15th 2011
Price: 5.99