Michigan: Report from Hell
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| Developer(s) | Grasshopper Manufacture |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Director(s) | Akira Ueda |
| Programmer(s) | Tetsuya Nakazawa |
| Writer(s) | Nobuhiko Sagara Ren Yamazaki |
| Composer(s) |
Masafumi Takada Jun Fukuda (1 track) |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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| Genre(s) | Survival horror |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 53/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Famitsu | 30/40 |
| X-Play |   |
Michigan: Report from Hell, released as Michigan (ミシガン Mishigan?) in Japan, is a survival horror game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Spike. It was released in Japan on August 5, 2004, in Europe on September 29, 2005, and in Australia in 2005. This game was never released in North America. Directed by Akira Ueda and planned by Goichi Suda, the game focuses on a news crew for the fictional ZaKa TV, dedicated to covering strange phenomena. The game is unique in the sense that it is played almost entirely though the viewfinder of a camera; and the game is lost if the player runs out of film before solving the mysteries in a mission.
In Michigan, players take the role of a rookie cameraman for ZaKa TV, the entertainment division of the powerful ZaKa conglomerate. Accompanied by Brisco, an outspoken sound engineer, and Pamela, a reporter, the player is sent to investigate a mysterious mist that has descended over the city. The player quickly discovers that the mist is somehow transforming people into fleshy, leech-like monsters with human limbs. Pamela is attacked by the creatures, and is later found in the process of transforming into one. The player, Brisco, and a new female reporter are sent to investigate the source of the monster outbreak.
It is eventually revealed that the cause of the monsters is a mutative virus developed by a scientist, Dr. O'Conner, intended to be used as a biological weapon against the enemies of the United States. The virus was developed with the complicity of the U.S. military, the U.S. government, as well as the powerful ZaKa group for whom the protagonists work.
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