If a DualShock controller is used, a heart beat rhythm can be felt signifying that the player is at low health. Instead of relying on illustrations, Sato conceived the characters of Silent Hill while creating their computer-generated models. Alex soon discovers that many more people have gone missing in Shepherd's Glen since he left, when he finds his childhood friend Elle Holloway pinning "missing" signs to a board outside the police department. Perhaps what stands out most about Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is the use of the psychologist, who pushes you out of your comfort zone by psycho-analyzing you in conjunction with events that happen in the main story. The game was released on December 8, 2009, for the Wii and on January 19, 2010, for the PlayStation 2 and the PlayStation Portable, to mostly positive reviews.

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The Silent Hill HD Collection, a compilation of the high-definition remastered video game ports of Silent Hill 2 (2001) and Silent Hill 3 (2003), spent more than two years in development. Toyama did not have much experience of horror movies but was interested in UFOs, the occult and David Lynch movies which influenced the game's development. The ever-present fog, for example, is downplayed in favor of frequent, violent rainstorms that whip nearby enemies into a frenzy. The release date was later pushed back to March 2012, slated to be published alongside two other upcoming installments in the franchise, Silent Hill: Downpour and Silent Hill: Book of Memories. While some reviewers graded it positively, describing it as "intriguing and disturbing", [9] it was also noted that it "isn't particularly original, and there are no great surprises", even though it "still makes for a very involving journey into the macabre".

A portable radio collected early in the game alerts Harry to the presence of nearby creatures with bursts of static. For the most part they don't get in the way of what makes the gameplay work, and those that did dragged the score down to what it is. Chasing her through the streets of Silent Hill, he finds himself running down a small residential road and into a dark alley.

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He has over 10 years experience in online and print journalism, and holds a BA (Hons) in Journalism and Feature Writing. On July 25, 2018, the game alongside Silent Hill HD Collection became backward compatible on Xbox One. Music [ edit ] Akira Yamaoka requested to compose the soundtrack for Silent Hill after the original musician decided to leave the development team. This had the effect of banning the game for sale in the country, and representatives for publisher Atari mentioned that they would be asking Konami to tone down the violence to allow the game to receive the needed MA15+ rating for its sale to be permitted in early 2009. Silent Hill 2 centers on widower James Sunderland who travels to the titular town after receiving a letter from his dead wife, while Silent Hill 3 is a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill game and focuses on Heather Mason, a teenager who finds herself in conflict with the town's cult.

Others felt that Silent Hill was Konami's answer to the Resident Evil series [5] in that, while they noted a similarity, Silent Hill utilized a different form of horror to induce fear, attempting to form a disturbing atmosphere for the player, in contrast to the visceral scares and action-oriented approach of Resident Evil. Homecoming 's average at Metacritic is 71 out of 100 for the PS3 version, [56] 70 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 version [57] and 64 out of 100 for the PC version. Up until now, I didn't realize Wii U owners would be able to access the Silent Hill universe, but the console's ability to play Wii discs makes that possible. Toyama questioned Konami's decision to appoint him as director, as he had never been one prior to Silent Hill. And to its credit, developer Vatra Games succeeded in making the town of Silent Hill feel genuinely different.

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As the time passed, the personnel and management of Konami lost their faith in the game, and the members of Team Silent increasingly felt like outsiders. Health" restoratives and a limited range of weapons and ammunition to fight off various hostile creatures can be obtained. Ad Archived November 8, 2021, at the Wayback Machine placed in French magazine Game On, issue 2 (July 1999), which reads (in French): "Silent Hill - Quand même la mort n'est plus une issue _ 16. Five game endings are possible, depending on actions taken by the player, including one joke ending.

Book of Memories took the Silent Hill series in a wholly unexpected direction by turning it into an isometric dungeon crawler – a semi-blasphemous notion that nonetheless had loads of potential. Lead designer Jason Allen described the intentions of the development team to be to maintain the depth of storytelling and atmosphere of the series whilst making combat more intuitive and less frustrating.