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26 December 2008 | | Format
Xbox 360, PS3 | | Developer
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Silent Hill: Homecoming
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While most Silent Hills have been the twisted brainchildren of Japanese coders, the business of bringing the series jerking to life on the Xbox 360 and PS3 has been entrusted to an American development house. Yet while the Yank’s more gung-ho approach goes a long way to enticing a new breed of players to sample Silent Hill’s psychological terrors, adopting a more measured take on the combat loses sight of the game’s most disturbing aspect.
While Silent Hill’s biggest draw has always been its everyman heroes – real people trapped in nightmarish situations, rather than Resident Evil’s pumped up policemen – making a war veteran the focus of the game lends itself to more refined violence, the gruff protagonist using advanced moves to dodge attacks and pummel the undead. But while the game’s fastidious fisticuffs take genuine skill to master, gone is the blind panic of swinging a lead pipe in almost total darkness to clobber skinned zombie children, Homecoming in turn offering players more control of their digital destiny, but ditching the acute sense of helplessness that made its predecessors so chilling.
Reviewer: David McComb
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| SILENT HILL/ BETTER THAN FEAR 2 & RESI EVIL 5 | | | Having recently clocked FEAR 2 & Resi Evil 5, i discovered that SILENT HILL HOMECOMING was actually a more rewarding experience, You see RESIDENT EVIL at is core is a rip off of GEORGE A ROMERO's Zombie Mythos, SILENT HILL has always seemed to be a much more original and horryfying experience, Sure HOMECOMING was a bit of a dissapointment compared to the other four games, however it is a lot more emotionally engaging than most of what passes as Survival Horror these days. ... Read More
| | | Horrorguru About me | | 19:10, 16 April 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: Silent Hill, Great but.... | | | I think they dropped the 5 from the title as it often puts people off if they see a sequel that they haven't played the previous title, and being that this is the first time the series has been on the current generation of consoles there will be a fair few people who have never played a Silent Hill game (it happens a lot with games and moves - there is no Friday The 13th Part 9 or 10 and yet there is Jason Goes To Hell and Jason X
Back to the game, well I'm enjoying it so far but it... Read More
| | | satan_claws About me | | 12:14, 06 March 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Silent Hill, Great but.... | | | This game suffers from the lack of Team silent, sure it looks like a silent hill game, hell it even smells like a Silent hill game, however i think what was lost in translation in the original Japanese games, became a cornocopia of lost sanity and a feeling of utter helplessness, The american take on the game is great, however i was expecting so much more. Maybe Konami were as well, i noticed that SILENT HILL V, was ditched in favor of SILENT HILL Homecoming, was this Konami making sure that if ... Read More
| | | Horrorguru About me | | 21:55, 16 February 2009 | Report This Post | |
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