Konami has announced that Silent Hill 5 has been renamed Silent Hill: Homecoming and now has a European release timeframe of September.
The game, which is being developed by The Collective instead of Konami's traditional Japanese team, is being met with tentative excitement from fans, myself among them. While it looks solid and the team seems to be made up of big Silent Hill fans, the homages to the Silent Hill movie and the rehashed "looking for missing person" storyline is worrying. In this game, it is Alex Shepherd looking for his missing brother.
No American date for Homecoming has been announced, but it can't be too far off the European date.
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11:15 AM on 04.21.2008
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Ahem... I'm a little more worried but... best of luck to the developers.
What are they going to do, unleash Carrie?
Co-op would be a nice touch but I think it would be hard to implement given the nture of Silent Hill. Sitting next to a friend wouldn't be as scary as solo.
I loves SH so this will be in my collection day 1!
and this just gives me more reason to feel that way...aha
Also, zombie-monster or not, the creature in the background of that pic has rocking beuuubs
And what about the North American release schedule?
/RUNS!
I mean, HOMECOMING? They could've done better than that. :/