Konami has released an unlucky 13 new screenshots for the next Silent Hill title, the recently christened Silent Hill: Homecoming. They feature everything you'd expect -- fog, gaunt weirdos with sunken cheeks, a creepy playground, a monster coming out of the ground. Yup, definitely Silent Hill.
As some of you may know, the series has been handed over to California-based developer The Collective. It's unfortunate that their body of work is so spotty, consisting mostly of television and film licensed titles, including the Dirty Harry game which will never see the light of day. They did make Buffy: The Vampire Slayer for the Xbox, which to this day remains one of my favorite Buffy console games out of the two that were released.
Silent Hill: Homecoming has been confirmed to be coming to Europe this September for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. For what it's worth, the North American arm of GameStop is currently listing the game for a 2009 release, so you may want to start saving those import dollars.
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8:24 AM on 04.25.2008
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Anyway, I am still holding out hope for this game, even if a lot of gamers wanna shit on it already. My main fear is that they seem to want to just copy a lot of past stuff. The story reminds me of Silent Hill 2 and a lot of visuals seem ripped from the movie. I know The Collective has a lot of SH fans in it, but I don't want this to end up as just a big fanwank.
And the outlook most of us have right now; trading hands can either be a win, or ultimate fail. This project may just be the stepping stone, The Collective needs.
And go Europe for getting some breaks recently. Huzzah.
Capcom are still trumping this series with RE though.
Konami seem stuck with what to do with Silent Hill. I'd prefer they created something else, as they really need to raise their game.
Don't forget this Silent Hill has to go up against RE5, Fatal Frame 3 and Heavy Rain. I'm not fancying Konami's chances, but please prove me wrong. Looks okay.
hope the game can deliver something new to the Silent Hill franchise.
But then again, I also liked clocktower...so sue me.
I honestly think the only scary SH game was the first one, and that was partly BECAUSE of the poor graphics. I'm more scared of things I can't see and can't understand than of the grossest, glossiest HD bullshit they can spew at me.
I don't have very high hopes for this, because of how much the series directors have been talking about WE FARMED THIS TO THE US BECAUSE THEY MAKE BETTER GRAPHICS, completely ignoring the fact that, in general, we epicly fail at horror. I'll still buy it day 1 and play it to death, because I just <3 SH that much, but I honestly don't think this will be even half as good as SH1 or 3.
She also rages every time we see a commercial for an american remake of a japanese horror flick.
However, neither The Collective or Shiny did anything noteworthy in the last few years.
I don't think we'll ever see anything remotely as good as Silent Hill 2 from the series again.
:S