Onimusha 4.(video games)(Product/Service Evaluation)

PS2 * Capcom * Winter 2005

We Say: Onimusha creator Keiji Inafune is a liar, plain and simple. During the development of Onimusha 3, the man behind Capcom's soul-sucking action series professed that the game would be the franchise finale. And although he left the team, the demon-hunting continues.

"We're going back to what Onimusha is all about," says Producer Yoshinori Ono. "But at the same time, we need to evolve [the franchise]." Like the original, No. 4 is set completely in feudal Japan and will sport a much darker, creepier backdrop than the last game's--so you can forget about time traveling to present-day Paris for fine wine and cheeses. Here, warlord …