Give Silent Hill 3 some love too. :)

@32BitSin If you have Netflix it's instantly watchable on there.

Thanks Chad! I was hoping that's the case.

The tunnel bit reminds me of Siren: Blood Curse

Looks way more like Siren to me.

The shots do look like this new SH will be more atmospheric than Homecoming, but honestly if you hadn't told me these shots were of a Silent Hill game, I wouldn't have known. Used to be you could identify a shot of a Silent Hill game without being told what it was pretty easily.

Fingers crossed, but the landscape that allowed a game like Silent Hill 2 or 3 to exist no longer does. Downpour could be a great game in its own right, but I hope that this isn't that game that definitively proves the Silent Hill name is just that, a name with recognition that gets plastered on a case.

Strawberries rip of strawberry ice cream, strawberry ice cream rips off strawberries. But it's OK, because they both ripped off raspberries.

I liked Homecoming and loved Shattered Memories. Both were pretty unique/good even if they were different from the other games.
It does sort of Sirenish. Siren Blood Curse is one of the best horror games of this generation, I implore all of you to check it out(psn)

This just doesn't feel very Silent Hill to me.
This fog really seems more like that kind of light, moody fog you'd see in a more realistic environment.
The early games' fog felt as though it was trapping you in, like a dark all-encompassing entity.

Nothing is scarier than what people can imagine for themselves, and this fog just doesn't seem to be hiding any secrets.

Still though, my fingers are crossed.

Doesn't look like Siren or Silent Hill to me. However, it certainly looks like Alan Wake. Everything about it is Alan Wake. Heck, even the wood on the deck is basically identical to the wood on the deck when you meet the sheriff and his dog outside in Alan Wake. The lighting looks the same. Everything.

But that's a good thing!

Alan Wake sucked, was way too easy, and the day time sections broke off the flow of the game. I was hoping it would be Resident Evil 4 in HD, basically, and instead I got Grand Theft Auto 4 with enemies that can't shoot back.

@gaidenrider

Don't know if serious.....

Shattered memories was superb.

Besides that though, I've not played a Silent Hill since the very first one.
This is looking pretty good. Alan Wake is one of the few games that make me wish I had a 360 so I like the similarity as well.

@32BitSin You haven't seen Twin Peaks? Well brew yourself up a damn fine cup of coffee & start searching for it.

Silent Twin? Alan Hill? Wake Peak? I'm getting confused now.

@Gaidenrider
All well and good criticisms but GTAIV? Really? Umm...what?

I want this game to be good, I really do, but considering I couldn't finish homecoming due to it constantly freezing, I'm skeptical.

@Gaiden

Anno! Solid game mechanic's really get on my nerves too.

Frankly, I'd rather a new Silent Hill resemble Alan Wake much more than resembling one of the last few Silent Hill games.

I've been a diehard Silent Hill fan since the original game. I liked Shattered Memories a lot, but the problems I have with Homecoming and Shattered Memories were that they tried to radically change the series in a completely new direction. With Downpour, it sounds much more like they are taking the old formula and trying to evolve it naturally, which I'm hoping really works out.

Although, Jim Sterling really needs to do more research. Every time he rants about Silent Hill it bugs me because he clearly didn't do his research. For example, the town of Silent Hill is NOT abandoned. It's a normal-ish populated tourist spot. The characters we play as are in other layers of reality. That's why other people are around and sometimes you meet up with a lot of people. And Silent Hill was ALWAYS inspired by things like Twin Peaks. Alan Wake was INSPIRED by Silent Hill as well, so saying that Silent Hill looks inspired by Alan Wake is just silly. Downpour just looks like how the old Silent Hills were trying to look like.

So long as the game isn't as ridiculously dark (in terms of lighting) as Homecoming was. I mean, Jesus, even with the contrast of that game turned up high I could barely see anything going on.