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A downright creepy "survival horror" title,
f1i Silent Hill
f0i0 succeeds where most
f1i Resident Evil
f0i0 -inspired titles suck: keeping you hooked and instilling you with fear throughout the game. Players are cast as Harry Mason in his desperate search for his daughter, who mysteriously disappeared after their car crashed into a gully outside of a desolate resort town.
The 3-D environments in
f1i Silent Hill
f0i0 are bathed in fog or darkness, making its dismal setting all the more eerie; this also allows for some spectacular lighting effects when using a flashlight in the dark. Granted, there are some pretty coarse graphics being obscured here, but it's a fair trade-off, considering the game's short load times.
f1i Silent Hill
f0i0 is played from a third-person perspective, viewed from both fixed and moving camera angles. As with similar games, the viewpoint can be awkward at times, especially during combat, which here is so clunky that you should try to avoid it whenever possible--something you should do anyway, as this isn't
f1i Tomb Raider
f0i0 .
Rather than resort to cheap scare tactics,
f1i Silent Hill
f0i0 features a gameplay twist that works very well with its limited visibility environments. Harry carries a radio with him that crackles with static whenever the game's nasties are near, and continues until they're no longer in the vicinity or have been killed off. (Enemies may require further whacking when they're down, as they like to play dead.) Additionally, the supported Dual-Shock controller pulsates in a heartbeatlike fashion whenever you're moderately or seriously injured.
f1i --Joe Hon
f0i0
f2b Pros:
f0b0
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cf0 'a5 Suspenseful story with bone-chilling gameplay
'a5 Short load times
'a5 Excellent lighting and fog effects
'a5 Five possible endings add replay value
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f2b Cons:
f0b0
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cf0 'a5 Coarse graphics
'a5 Clunky combat
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| uuid: |
AEC2686A-81EF-11D9-88C4-000A959D0BD2" |
| upc: |
083717170372 |
| title: |
Silent Hill |
| purchase date: |
18-02-2005 |
| publisher: |
Konami |
| platform: |
PlayStation |
| net Rating: |
4.48 |
| last lookup time: |
130453043.0100731 |
| genre: |
Video Games
Action and Adventure
Horror
Sony Playstation (Play station)
PSX (PS1 PSOne PS (1 one I)
Action Horror
Adventure |
| esrbrating: |
Mature |
| edition: |
CD-ROM |
| created: |
130453041.3283644 |
| asin: |
B00001XDUB
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