Silent Hill: Downpour Gameplay Gives Us The Chills
Silent Hill: DownpourIt's the long-awaited Silent Hill installment on the PlayStation 3, and we're interested to see what developer Vatra has to offer.
This is the best look yet at Silent Hill: Downpour, which should capture that effectively creepy atmosphere for which the franchise is known. Survival/horror fans aren't too happy with games like Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City but you can always rely on Konami's freaky series to deliver the dark, subtle terror we all know and love.
Yep, this looks like what we want. We don't want a third-person shooter; we don't really even want an action game. We want a survival/horror, and Vatra seems to grasp that concept well. This is one of those titles that reminds us what it means to be afraid of a video game... What do you think?
Related Game(s): Silent Hill: Downpour
Tags: silent hill downpour, silent hill ps3, silent hill downpour video
9/6/2011 10:59:55 AM Ben Dutka
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Ultimadream
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 3:09:26 PM
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TrophyHunter
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 12:05:12 PM
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Ultimadream
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 12:45:06 PM
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As for the game itself... Well I have to say if that is an example of what it has to offer I doubt I will even buy it at bargain price. The combat was just sloppy, the animation was very slow, I got the impression due to the article that combat would not be a massive feature and it would be more like Shattered Memories, but no it looks just as tedious as it is in Homecoming.
The enviroments were not very interesting either, I am sure it will have more to offer but from this and the Alan Wake rip off town I have seen, yeah I am not convinced. Also, Why was that creature eating the body....Silent Hill is not a Zombie game...which I can see happening as it seems to have them undead people.
I also hate the camera, I know even in the early SH games the camera would follow the character, but when the character walked to a certain space the camera would chain for suspenseful moment. (& yes I noticed it changed everytime he climbed a ladder, but does that really count?). Films have cinematography attirubtes for a reason, Old survival horror games nailed this. games like Resident Evil 1-3, Parasite Eve 2, Silent Hill 1-4. Ever since RE changed the way of horror we have lost so much. I honestly can say I am looking forward to Tomb Raider more than this for it's new wave of Survival Horror, or even Amy.
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SayWord
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 12:58:32 PM
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Ultimadream
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 1:07:28 PM
Platformers have just turned into shooters because of Ratchet & Clank.People think RPG's are games like Fallout and Mass Effect where you have a land to explore shoot everything and make descisions...Horror games have also just turned into action games.
I'll give credit where it is due though, Siren Blood Curse was a brilliant horror game. Very dark and full of suspense, because you did not have the advantage of a full arsenal in your pocket.
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Sogi_Otsa
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 3:21:24 PM
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Gamer Girl Gemo
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 5:06:55 PM
Siren: Blood Curse was a game that easily set me on edge and that had definitely given me a good time. Not as great of a lasting fear as the older SH franchise, but still better than what there is today. Not to mention one of the weirdest final bosses/endings in video game history.
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AcHiLLiA
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 12:51:40 PM
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Ultimadream
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 1:31:01 PM
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Sogi_Otsa
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 3:23:38 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 1:46:03 PM
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Sogi_Otsa
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 3:24:36 PM
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Karosso
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 3:35:00 PM
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"Winter is Coming"
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YashaZz
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 10:44:10 PM
:)
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Ignitus
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 4:18:18 PM
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Also, I'm happy they showed the PS3 build of the game. I get nrvous when developers only show the Xbox build (we know what that means for the PS3 version of the game.)
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Danny007
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 4:45:53 PM
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Gamer Girl Gemo
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 5:09:51 PM
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I'm not really hyped up for Downpour, and this demo didn't really help to get me off the fence either. I'll have to see some more before making a definite decision on this game. Either that, or a few reviews. Being the SH fan I am, I will be disappointed to possibly see another SH game die because of terrible reviews.
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Oxvial
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 5:38:26 PM
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ZettaiSeigi
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 5:58:19 PM
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In case you haven't read the recent news on the PlayStation Blog, Sony announced that Resident Evil 1 (Director's Cut), Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 3 will be free for PlayStation Plus subscribers later this month. Aside from that Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica will be available to PS+ subscribers for half the price upon their release. No way am I going to miss this! This might just be my chance to get on board the RE train.
This could possibly be one of the best months for PS+ members. The service just keeps paying for itself!
Anyway, I wonder if something similar would happen for Silent Hill one of these days.
And since we're on the topic of survival horror games, I just wanted to say how much I miss the Fatal Frame games. I loved Fatal Frame II!
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Ignitus
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 6:11:37 PM
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ZettaiSeigi
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 6:14:04 PM
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ZenChichiri
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 7:12:49 PM
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The framerate isn't the best, but as long as the horror factor is there I'm ok. It's what the series is all about after all. However, I'm not going to get my hopes up as Team Silent has nothing to do with this. I still have faith it'll be better than Homecoming though.
I really miss the creepy music that Akira Yamaoka put out. It was always subtle, but creepy (aside from some parts that seems like someone was banging on a piano). It seems like they put loud noises here everywhere here just to remind us "ok, time to be scared now, that was your cue to jump". I hope there's more to the scare factor than that.
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556pineapple
Wednesday, September 07, 2011 @ 1:09:13 AM
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However...
At any given time, you can see WAY too much of the surrounding environment. Part of what made the old ones scary (the first one specifically) is that you often couldn't see more than a 10-foot radius around the character. The radio was the only indication that a monster was near, and sometimes even that was misleading. Since this looks like an early build, I'm hoping that they'll remedy that. I'll still give it a shot, but I have to say my expectations went down overall after watching this video.
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___________
Wednesday, September 07, 2011 @ 4:29:01 AM
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whether its a proper silent hill game or not remains to be seen, but it definitely is looking like the closest thing to a survival horror game we have gotten in years!
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Lotusflow3r
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011 @ 11:32:46 AM
No new Silent Hill is coming.
Konami have offended us all.
Guy Cihi, the voice actor for James Sunderland is so disgusted at the treatment the suits at Konami are giving Team Silent's art that he written an open letter to Konami voicing his disgust at games like Downpour and the HD butchering of Team Silent's SH 2 and 3 and offers a little behind the scenes info in the disposal of Team Silent via Konami.
It is one of the worst cases of butchering i have ever seen and an utter tragedy for our industry. It was only a matter of time before past team members began speaking out.
Guy Cihi's Facebook doesn't paint Konami in a very good light.
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