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Silent Hill
Price: $175.00 Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Video Game
EAN: 0083717170372
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Platform: PlayStation
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Editorial Review:
A downright creepy "survival horror" title, Silent Hill succeeds where most Resident Evil-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 Silent Hill 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.
Silent Hill 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 Tomb Raider.
Rather than resort to cheap scare tactics, Silent Hill 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. --Joe Hon
Pros: - Suspenseful story with bone-chilling gameplay
- Short load times
- Excellent lighting and fog effects
- Five possible endings add replay value
Cons: - Coarse graphics
- Clunky combat
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - In the modern world of HD, Xbox 360, Playstation 3. This game is still scary.
Silent Hill. Is. Still. Scary. When I first played this game I didn't really care for it. I didn't really care for Silent Hill until I played the fourth one. Now I love it! I have all the Silent Hill games and this one is still great. In the world of HD crap, if a playstation one game can still scare you with its inferior graphics its still realy good. Mabye that is why its so expensive. Buy it. Period.
Rating: - Silent Hill
I Learned from this on I went by the picture and didn't read the discription that this was the disk only but that is my fault.
Works great, Got here on time and in very good condition.
Rating: - Major step forward for games as an art form
The story in this game (and all Silent Hill games for that matter) is phenomenal. Games like this are the ones that will help video gaming evolve as an artistic medium like books and film, rather than being seen as toys.
Here's a brief description for anyone reading this that doesn't know about Silent Hill (all 2 of you...); you play as a normal guy (not a military commando) that is driving along one minute and then, after nearly crashing, finds himself in Silent Hill where strange and ... Read More
Rating: - Still, the Best horror game *no spoilers*
This is a game for the PS1 system. It's got underwhelming graphics considering todays standards, but its incredibly immersive, as good as the best horror movies or books, everything about the game oozes atmosphere and style.
The game play, especially the movement is a little clunky though the emphasis is not on fast paced action so that is never and issue. The objective of the game is to go through a "haunted" town looking for a missing little girl while slowly discovering the back story of ... Read More
Rating: - Very scary
This game is one of the scariest of all time. Fear perpetuates throughout the game at all times. And most of it is genuine fear, not just the cheap scares like something jumping out from behind a corner (but there are a few of those too). I can't play this game in the dark or alone, it messes me up.
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