Which was a stereo typical joke to be honest. So that was my first real disappointment, apart from the god awful framerate issues which just to add, have STILL not been patched after 3 months.Īfter killing the screamer with a handy wrench I set out to find the ticket for the sky-tram and bumped into Howard Blackwood only the second black character to be in a Silent Hill game since Wheeler in Homecoming. It was like a guy stood next to me on the sofa and kept repeating "this is a video game! this is a video game! kill the immersion! kill the immersion!" (no I'm not crazy). Then it did that lame scream soundwave attack and totally took me out of the game. I always thought they looked a bit silly, but my first encounter with one was unnerving as I ran away and turned my head to see, it looked really messed up as it chased me through the fog. So I moved on and saw the wheelchair on the roof with the wheel still spinning, nice touch but haven't we already seen this in a hospital basement somewhere?Īnyway, I must say I was never a fan of the screamers. That was a big tick in my book, also the tension when it starts to rain was kinda cool because you knew the monsters were coming to get you.
I really liked the moody, wet and dank feeling like the way the air goes just before it starts to rain. I will say this though, I thought the atmosphere was great. The best track I've heard so far though to be honest. So I moved on and got to the gas station where I could hear a well known track playing from Silent Hill 2 and I thought to myself that's kinda cool but man does it feel out of place in this game.
I chose to save her and she fell anyway -_- that annoyed me a bit. So the first choice is the part where Anne Cunnigham is about to fall off the cliff and you get to choose to save her or leave her to fall. So we start off with the not so subtle scene with Murphy shanking some fat dude to death in all of its dated unreal engine, texture popping glory (I can't stand that engine) and that first scene was like some cheesy B-movie flick and already we are far, far away from the opening sequences of the past games, not necessarily a bad thing I know, but in this case it really really is.Īnyway, so after that we get all of the stern prison guard stares from 80's action films and we are onto the bus and on our way to Silent Hill. Problem is though I couldn't help but feel that it was like some kind of parody game to the Japanese games. In fact some people have said "the scariest silent hill game since silent hill 1!" and "the best silent hill since 2!" so after a while I gave in and decided to give it a chance.įirst off before all of you Downpour fans chase me with pitch forks I did actually enjoy the game, I had fun with it. So after playing the Downpour demo at the Eurogamer Expo I wasn't really expecting anything great from Downpour and after reading a few reviews such as IGN's review of the game let's just say I wasn't going to buy it.like.ever.Īfter going through the Silent Hill forums of various sites though,the fans seemed to have a different opinion of the game and most people said that it was better than the train crash Homecoming. I'm not going to go into Homecoming, Origins and Shattered Memories, instead I'm going to go through my first play-through of Silent Hill Downpour. I know Silent Hill 4 was the weakest of the first 4 games but it was a minor misstep in regards to what we have today.
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Little did I know that once the series was given to western developers, the games would take a dramatic turn for the worse. I was hooked.Īs the franchise continued, it revolutionised (along with resident evil) new ways to bring horror to our consoles, and have stood the test of time when it comes to the genre especially Silent Hill 2. Nothing could prepare me for that game, the first scene in the alleyway was a true sense of horror I had never felt even in the Resident Evil games. "What's this?" its a demo of Silent Hill, soon to be my favourite franchise. It's 1999 and I have a copy of Metal Gear Solid for the PSOne in my hands and I notice an extra disc in the case.
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