Topic: Silent Hill: Homecoming reviews!
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Miss Razz...CruisiN'  since: Sep 2003
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Silent Hill: Homecoming reviews!
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I thought I might as well put most of the reviews in one thread, to make them more easily accessible and not flood the forum with a new thread for each one ... quoteOXM reviews Silent Hill: Homecoming ... Gives it a mere 6.5/10 ?! OXM recently reviewed the upcoming horror game Silent Hill: Homecoming and they weren't very impressed, giving it a mere 6.5/10. Their main complaints were the gameplay's cheap hits, the abundance of respawning enemies, and that the first half of the game "feels uneven and unbalanced". They also noted that Joshua (the protagonist's 12 year old brother) seemed to act more like a 4 year old than a 12 year old. Although OXM were happy with the game's creepy atmosphere. At least fans will be happy with that! gamegrep article quoteIGN's Silent Hill: Homecoming Review - Only 6.7/10?Today IGN reviewed Silent Hill: Homecoming and they were not impressed, giving it an overall score of 6.7/10! Their main complaints were that the game felt more like an action game than a horror, that some graphic models and textures looked odd, and that the plot itself "came across more like a subplot than a full extension of the Silent Hill franchise". Although they praised the game's amazing locations and Akira Yamaoka's incredible musical score. quoteAs a fan of the entire Silent Hill universe and someone that has every game associated to the property, I was hoping that Homecoming would be an excellent step forward for the franchise. Unfortunately, I admit that the game feels like a bit of a letdown. The gameplay has been reduced from a tense psychological experience fraught with spine tingling jumps and scares to a generic, predictable action title set in the location with good graphics and a great soundtrack. If Alex had been limited in some way, or even if there was an adjustment to the fearful aspect to the title, this could've been a solid game. full IGN review gamegrep article
Ouch! Harsh reviews! quoteSilent Hill: Homecoming In-depth review!Adam Rosenberg of UGO.com's Gamesblog sounds off with this well written and in-depth review for Silent Hill: Homecoming. From the sound of it, this may be the best Silent Hill game to date! quoteIn Homecoming Double Helix have crafted an experience which is a uniquely modern take on survival horror, incorporating now-standardized game elements such as 3D camera controls and smooth character interactions into the genre's basic tenets, bending them where necessary but never breaking them outright. In Homecoming, fear comes from keeping players in a constant state of high tension, achieved through combination of deft level and art design, unsettling audio cues and perfectly paced proceedings. In short, this latest Silent Hill, new developer and all, is at once a return to form and a bold step in a new direction. full UGO review gamegrep article quote1UP Reviews Silent Hill: Homecoming - Gives it a BThe Silent Hill: Homecoming reviews are starting to pour in, and it appears they are rather mixed. It seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it game. 1UP has reviewed Homecoming today, and they were impressed. quote 1UP
Ever since my first encounter with Silent Hill 2, something about this survival-horror franchise really got to me. Not that running from zombies wasn't terrifying when I played the original Resident Evil -- it's just that Silent Hill's themes of sin, punishment, and forgiveness (not to mention the nightmarish abominations) drew me in on a deeper level. While I'll always associate earlier series games with clunky combat, hard-to-follow stories, crappy camera positions, and load times between every room, those imperfections became synonymous with the franchise for me -- even endearing. What can I say? We love games for their flaws and their strengths alike. With Silent Hill: Homecoming, everything's changed. So many of my associations with the franchise simply aren't applicable anymore: The clunky controls are now streamlined, combat's much more intense (at times, a little too intense), and the storyline -- for once -- makes clear-cut sense. None of this is bad, just...different. Very different. full 1UP review gamegrep article Read more reviews here
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Seeker XNo Religion in my Freedom.Permanently Plugged In  since: Sep 2003
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Meh, Silent Hill games are usually in the low scores. Then again, compared to games like SIREN (yes, THAT game again), it ain't doing too good already.
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trickygamerRIP Snigget </3high on "N"  total posts: 753 since: Aug 2006
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I don't care what they say, Silent Hill will still be awesome. 
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Wile E DaigoInternet tough guy©threadnought  total posts: 583 since: Jun 2008
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Tbh, at this point, that's about all you could expect. Silent Hill, in its current form, is played out. Make it too similar and you get slated for repetition. Change it too much and fans of the series are up in arms. Looks like they've played it safe and made it similar in gameplay to the previous games....which had big game engine problems. Fans were willing to forgive them because the atmosphere and story were so well done, but how many times can you be scared by the same thing? The scores have been declining steadily since SH2.
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lycan2000Free Love, babys-e-e-k-e-r  total posts: 1920 since: Oct 2004
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Doesn't surprise me really, i've never fully had faith in this game ever since i started to see in game play and things like that and like Seeker X said Silent Hill always gets low scores and really people are YOU going to listen to what a critic says about a game hell, i know i don't i let the game do the talking to me because you see each person had there own likes and dislikes.
Hell people said Mission Impossible was a good movie i hated it, they said Little Nicky was the worst comedy film of the year, i enjoyed it enough to buy it
Of course there are going to be people who loved Mission Impossible and hated Little Nicky.
I hated RE4, i've tried to play it again but i got board with it, and yet people will say that RE4 is the best Resident Evil to date.
There are also people that hated and disliked Silent Hill 4: The Room i liked it, BUT i still will stand by my opinion of Silent Hill 5 not looking so good but hey i'm still waiting for it just like everybody else and i won't cast my iron fist of true opinion until i play it and beat it.
And for the love of god nobody start tossing rocks at me.
P.S. Siren 2 was pretty freakin' awesome scared the living hell out of me much more the Silent Hill ever did something about that game just got the heart thumping.
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Miss Razz...CruisiN' since: Sep 2003
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quote Seeker X
Meh, Silent Hill games are usually in the low scores.
I dunno, the PS2 Silent Hill games have always recieved good scores. True, they were never exceptional scores, but good scores nontheless. (well, I consider an average of 80% + to be good). The Xbox and PC ports were never as well recieved, for whatever reasons, but that's usually the case with ports.
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Seeker XNo Religion in my Freedom.Permanently Plugged In since: Sep 2003
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Well yeah I wasn't really impressed with some of the individual review scores myself, but I didn't exactly count the Metacritic scores.
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Miss Razz...CruisiN' since: Sep 2003
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I'll agree that some of the individual review scores seem harsh. Some reviewers also don't seem to "get" the games or the plot (that happened a fair bit with SH2 in particular) so they marked them down for that. Bah. - - - - - - The gamegrep article has been updated. Here is a part of the full review: quote"Very good things come to those who wait, bludgeon, and patiently endure the sixth chapter in the Silent Hill series. But right from its plodding start Homecoming's stab in the soupy fog does itself no favors by committing a number of grievous sins. From its leaden, cheap-shots-aplenty combat to its wild-goose chase through gray, same-y hallways filled with useless, placebo doorways to a story that takes much to long to get off the ground, its entire first half feels like a death march through a clunky hot mess. Yes, we get that we're Alex Shepherd, a discharged soldier hot on the trail of his mising brother. In his path is a spaced-out mom and his mysteriously deserted hometown of Shepherd's Glen - a town with the motto "Where family comes first" rather than the more appropriate "Where broken locks and respawning enemies come first.". And we appreciate that there's something bigger and more sinister going on behind the occult-happy scenes that somehow involves the dark neighboring city of Silent Hill." "But Homecoming puts all the intrigue and genuine spooks on hold until its second half, which genuinely ramps up the creep factor. And thankfully, by then, you may have gotten a grasp on the games revamped combat scheme - one that forces you to avoid as much conflict as possible due to quick enemy patterns and a somewhat slow-to-respond dodging/counterattack mechanic that usually ends in your taking cheap hits galore. Put those fights in cramped corners with a protagonist that controls to much like circa 2000, Lara Croft-ian tank, and we've suddenly got the urge to punch our TV set in low-hanging you know whats." "But the good... no, great news is that Homecomings second half saves its bloodied bacon by more thoughtfully pacing out enemy encounters, giving you more than just one health drink and one box of pistol rounds to survive, and cranking up the foreboding atmosphere to breaking point. Once this happens, you'll immediately know - and from that moment on, it's a tense, bloodcurdling trip to tear the curtains off of Alex's unhappy, plot-twisty ride into hell. Sure your enjoyment relies heavily on whether you guess the story's big end reveal in the first 30 minutes (we didn't), but Homecomings half-hidden, melancholy little heart is shown only to those who look past its incredibly M-rated gory kicks and often frustratingly lopsided, questionably balanced exterior." source Reading that has given me a bit of hope for the game. The review has quite a bit of praise, despite it's low-ish score. And I do love a good plot twist. XD
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Wile E DaigoInternet tough guy©threadnought total posts: 583 since: Jun 2008
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Yeah, that actually makes it sound like something worth playing, plot revelations were sorely missed in SH4, right up to the end I was hoping for a cutscene that threw the whole story into a different perspective but it never materialised.
Combat sounds like it sucks even worse than ever though.
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RaidenXSComatose but audibles-e-e-k-e-r  total posts: 1559 neopoints: 516 GameGrep pts: 381 since: Mar 2008
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who is OXM?
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Miss Razz...CruisiN' since: Sep 2003
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quote RaidenXS
who is OXM?
Official XBox Magazine.
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RaidenXSComatose but audibles-e-e-k-e-r total posts: 1559 neopoints: 516 GameGrep pts: 381 since: Mar 2008
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any news from other mags?
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Miss Razz...CruisiN' since: Sep 2003
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Nope, unfortunately it looks like OXM is the only mag that has reviewed the game so far. Which is a little strange considering Homecoming is just over a week from being released... you'd think there would be more mags and sites with their hands on a copy of the game. 
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Memory of EileenGood bye everyone...Seeketh Maximus  since: Mar 2005
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Ah... :T
Oh well, I will and am still waiting for the game to be release anyway since I'm willing to try the new game and it changes a lot of course, but who knows? I might end up liking it or not. 
Still, maybe there is a reason about Joshua acting like a 4 years old kid...I mean, no one will be in their normal conditions esp in Silent Hill, like Laura from Silent Hill 2. :T
I am wondering if the mag even finish the SH5 game. >.>
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landwalkerdangerous  total posts: 194 since: Dec 2005 |
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I'll still give this game a try.
Still waiting for that EGM, Gameinformer, or even X-play review.
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