Silent Hill 5 is "very Western-minded" ... It's also influenced by Hostel!

quote

Recently Kotaku got their hands on a demo of Silent Hill: Homecoming and they left feeling impressed.

MTV.com has similar feelings towards the game's demo. Though they mention a few things that may disappoint SH fans, including the abundance of references to the Silent Hill movie and other Western gore flicks ...

quote

"Homecoming" opens with an opening very much influenced by "Hostel." Your character is shuttled through a grimy hospital, while unknown individuals are torn apart, their screams echoing as you're shuttled to what seems to be your doom. It's far less subtle than the openers of previous "Silent Hills". It's very Western-minded.

But back to the nurse, my favorite part. The animation on "her" was phenomenally disturbing. It certainly felt like The Collective took notes while watching Christophe Gans' "Silent Hill" movie from a few years back. Her movements are almost note-for-note the same. You want nothing more than to stab her so she'll stop moving.

more info

quote Raziel_326

quote Dark Dom

For the record, the same team made the SH game on PSP, which I own, and it isn't all bad. Besides the countless weapons you're given. >_>

This game does seem to be based more off the movie though, even the PSP game's Nurses were identical to the movie... -_-

No, they didn't. Climax made Silent Hill Origins, a UK team. The Collective were working on the original version of Origins, but it was looking so shitty that Konami completely scrapped it and gave it to Climax to redo the whole game.

Oh I thought this was being made by Climax.
Damn, this doesn't give me much hope for the game.

quote S H E P E R D

Great, so we have Brits' tackling a Western themed horror game.

At that, Climax is not a 'great' developer.


You're going to get a lot of Clive Barker inspired "Hellraiser" like scenes here, not the style of Japanese horror the series has been known for. It may still be a decent game, but I don't see the need for them to slap Silent Hill on the title anymore. That almost limits what the game can do because they have to relate it to Silent Hill, and try not to piss off fans (like SH4 did). They aren't going to rake in big bucks like Silent Hill 2 did for them - that's what they are aiming for, and they're the ones that are stemming the problem, not the dev team.

I don't have a problem with Hellraiser blood, guts, demons, etc, but ditch the Silent Hill title. Let it be its own monster.

quote mynamegoeshere

quote Gothic Girl

Resident Evil 5 is looking more action-oriented than horror-oriented.

you obviously havent seen the new trailer, with the dark gory blood efrects, dirt covered chansaw man, and freaks with squid tentacles coming out there mouthsor the massive worm tendril heads?