cr00mz said:
this game looks interesting, i wonder if this will be like the PS3s Alan Wake
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The first Silent Hill was released in 1991 on PS1 I believe... so technically its more the other way around really.
As for this entry in the series, I'm optimistically pessimistic about it, if that makes sense.
Silent Hill 2 (and to a lesser extend 4) for me mapped out what I want - a physcological horror narrative where the emphasis is not on combat or traditional gameplay but the atmosphere and the experience of a journey down a dark path with your protagonist - something SH2 in particular pulled off supremely well.
I'm not really sure the current market can support that kind of title well, and I'm sure that in the end they'll try and shove in too much combat, but we'll see.
Really, speaking of Alan Wake that probably neatly sums up my fears for the title. Remedy tried to capture an element of SH mood (and borrow - or is that steal?) a generous helping of Twin Peaks atmosphere into the bargin, but in the end it ended up mainly combat centric and repetitive without a deep enough narrative to carry it through (it also nabbed a fair bit from In The Mouths of Maddness as well thinking about it).
A good SH title is about the town, and the experiences of someone drawn to it. Something that peaked with SH2 but has been wavery in the series ever since.