Silent Hill Homecoming (Xbox 360)

Silent Hill: Homecoming is the latest console release in the incredibly successful franchise which not only spreads across a number of consoles, but has spawned its own Movie. In true Silent Hill fashion, the game centre around our hero Alex Shepperd, recently returned from war over seas on the lookout for his missing brother. Starting in Shepperd's Glen and moving through the surrounding towns of Toluca Lake in his search which challenges his own grip on reality. This is pretty much where the similarities with the previous titles stop. The first of the series on next generation consoles, Homecoming moves away from the traditional father figure and ...  Read the complete review

I don't normally go for this type of game, but my brother lent me a few of his old games to try out, and with this one I'm glad he did because I enjoyed playing it. Seemingly there's a whole series of Silent Hill games before this one, but I've never played any of them, so I can't say whether this is better or worse than the previous ones. The storyline follows Alex Shepherd, who's an ex military man going home to see his mum and dad, after having a strange dream about his younger brother in the lorry on the way, he returns to find his brother missing and the same creatures that he dreamed about are lose in his town. The town for the most ...  Read the complete review

Silent Hill Homecoming-Welcome Home (Sanitarium)... The horror genre is on its last legs. With bad, scareless 'horror' games like Clive Barker's Jericho and Alone in the Dark flooding the genre with their mediocrity, only classics like Condemned and Resident Evil 5 keep the genre breathing. Just. It's a shame-a once thriving genre has now become near extinct, which in my opinion is due to the two top dogs being missing for a while-Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Back in the days of the PSone, these two games were competing to be the best horror game out there with dozens of clones following suit. However, Resident Evil has evolved into more of a shooting game ...  Read the complete review

Silent Hill Homecoming is the series first outing on the next generation machines, is it set out to beat Resident Evil 5? The story follows our main character Alex Sheppard, he is an US soldier who gets injured and sent home where he stays in hospital, while there he has nightmares about his brother. He goes home to try and save his brother and uncover the mysteries that plague his hometown. The story is quite good I thought but it didn't really flow well and it was quite slow for anything to happen. The gameplay has definitely been refined from previous outings, your main character no longer moves like a tank and he can beat the cr*p out of enemies ...  Read the complete review

I feel I should prefix this review with a warning - that this is the first Silent Hill game I've ever played seriously. I played the first one for about an hour on the original Playstation, but that's not really enough time to be any kind of authority on the series. And so I approach this review as something of a newcomer. With that out of the way, I'll say that when I first started Homecoming I was a little disappointed. The control scheme is ancient - very reminiscent of the original Resident Evil, the graphics are just OK, the atmosphere isn't up to much, and the story is more or less nonexistent. At least, that's the case for the first half of the game. ...  Read the complete review