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This afternoon, I braved the foggy streets of New York City today, making my way down to the W Hotel on the 39th Street to attend Konami's holiday media event. One of the games on hand was the final build of the Xbox 360 version of Silent Hill: Homecoming, set to ship later this month.

I spent about forty minutes with the game's opening area, what essentially played out like a tutorial level in a worn down hospital. I'll be posting some hands-on information and impressions tomorrow, but in the meantime, I wanted to pass along these screens Konami gave us of Homecoming's big baddies.

News to me: outside of Pyramid Head (the obvious one) these bosses actually have names. Spoiler alert? Maybe -- half of the surprise and fright will probably come from encountering these monsters for the first time. Or you're just scared seeing them will give you nightmares. 

Names to go with the faces after the jump.

Pyramid Head

Asphyxia

Scarlet

Sepulcher

Siam


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Rainbowblack's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/16/2008 19:54
Rainbowblack
this is coming out THIS MONTH?

THANK GOD, I needed something to play until the end of october, looks like I found my game.
manta's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/16/2008 20:00
manta
Wait, they're promoting boss battles in SH?

*insert elitist dig on the western developers here*

Bollocks!


ib4sterling
Justin Villasenor's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/16/2008 20:08
Justin Villasenor
That Siam thing looks like an Umber Hulk.
Puppy Licks's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/16/2008 20:14
Puppy Licks
Wasn't Siam from Silent Hill 3? It looks kinda familiar.
Rational_Jesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/16/2008 20:50
Rational_Jesus
Doesn't it bother anyone that Pyramid Head is a construct of James Sunderland's psyche manifest through guilt and has no place in this game (or the movie for that matter.) Unless this is a direct sequel to Two, this shit doesn't make sense.
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/16/2008 21:06
Wexx
Rational_Jesus: We know, we know.

I'm still sceptical about this game.
Paroxysm's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/16/2008 21:17
Paroxysm
Yay boos fights! Sounds like they're really nailed the whole silent hill concept! I hope there's online deathmatch or at least boss rush mode with online leaderboards! Oh and gonorrhoea! I hope the game gives me gonorrhoea!
nintendoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/16/2008 22:00
nintendoll
Pyramid Head is shameless fan service and the only one that kind of freaks me out a bit is Aspyxia.

I'll just keep playing the original I guess ;_;
Reeper's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/17/2008 01:16
Reeper
Meh. Let me look again...


Yeah...meh.
El Baneto's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/17/2008 03:21
El Baneto
looks to much like SH2. meh
Murumasa123's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/17/2008 03:43
Murumasa123
If Pyramid Head is shameless fan service they certainyl dropped the ball as any even partial fan knows of of specific to SH2 Phyramid Head is.

From the previews it looked a little clunky but ll give ita go. Hell not much else till Saints Row in terms of games anyway.
Aziel13's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/17/2008 04:00
Aziel13
major E-boner
@Nintendoll not really shameless fan service, but it can actually prove that P.H. comes in many shape and sizes and was not limited to James O.G. P.H.(P.H. short for Pyramid Head((for those of you say P.H. WTF???)), or Travis' wanna be P.H. known as The butcher
P.H. is not limited to only one person, as many claim P.H.come to you out of the persons own pyche
also a big differrence and somewhat proof that my claim can be true look at old P.H. compared to new P.H.
old P.H.'s great knife looks like a huge scalpel
while new P.H.'s looks alot like a huge army survival knife


@Robofart no dice your talking about Leonard Wolf almost similar to Siam but like I said no dice
hjd uk's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/17/2008 04:46
hjd uk
They've rehashed previous 'iconic' monsters and shoved em into this new game, no thoughts gone into it. All of the previous games protagonists created the Silent Hill they were in, I thought that was 'the point'. Looks like the main reference for this game was the film - which was in it self a poor mashing up of SH 1 and 2.
Seems the artistic and creative edginess that marked SH and SH2 out from the crowd has been lost on the new US devs/publishers.
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