Silent Hill 4 - The Room (PS2)

Originally appearing on the Playstation, the 'Silent Hill' series is a successful series of horror games, probably most comparable to the 'Resident Evil' games in some ways, however Silent Hill has a tendency to be much more twisted and freakish than the gory and action packed nature of most Resident Evil games. It has seen six major games and also a translation to cinema. Silent Hill is developed by Japanese company 'Konami' and as a result the games are well-produced and well-marketed and have resulted in a successful franchise of games. Unlike all the games that proceeded 'Silent Hill 4: The Room,' this game is set in the fictional American town of 'South ...  Read the complete review

Silent Hill 4, the latest in the long running Silent Hill saga tries with some limited success to take the game into a different direction. Whilst fresh and innovative, it is not enough to break the game completly fro the rather lacklustre appeal it is now beginning to accumulate. This is not down to the game per se, indeed it tries very hard to be original. However, much like the chained door that binds our tortured hero, the game is too damn linear, with too many features recycled from the previous games, and to be honest, its getting a bit tedious Konami! SH 4 revolves around not fog-ridden and demented landscapes with bizzare cultists or ...  Read the complete review

Whilst the original Silent Hill may have ‘borrowed’ heavily from survival-horror pioneer Resident Evil, it certainly upped the stakes when it came to the scares. Silent Hill was released back in 1999 and with its bizarre storyline, near-legendary fog-filled streets and terrifying alternate realms (bloody, hellish juxtapositions of environments already visited) meant it was something of a classic. Utilising PS2 technology put its 2001 sequel in good stead as the imaginatively-named Silent Hill 2 proved a top-class scare-fest in its own right. A couple of years later and it was followed by the fabulous-looking Silent Hill 3 and it had become clear Konami had ...  Read the complete review