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Silent Hill Platinum (PS) | 
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| From: Konami
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 1652
Platform: Playstation
Genre: horror-action-games
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 15 - 18 years
EAN: 4988602068597
ASIN: B000050GSM
Release Date: October 13, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: COMPLETE WITH BOX AND INSTRUCTION----100% UK OFFICIAL GAME
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Amazon.co.uk Review
A downright creepy "survival horror" title, Silent Hill succeeds where most Resident Evil-inspired titles suck: keeping you hooked and instilling you with fear throughout the game. Players are cast as Harry Mason in his desperate search for his daughter, who mysteriously disappeared after their car crashed into a gully outside of a desolate resort town.The 3-D environments in Silent Hill are bathed in fog or darkness, making its dismal setting all the more eerie; this also allows for some spectacular lighting effects when using a flashlight in the dark. Granted, there are some pretty coarse graphics being obscured here, but it's a fair trade-off, considering the game's short load times. Silent Hill is played from a third-person perspective, viewed from both fixed and moving camera angles. As with similar games, the viewpoint can be awkward at times, especially during combat, which here is so clunky that you should try to avoid it whenever possible--something you should do anyway, as this isn't Tomb Raider. Rather than resort to cheap scare tactics, Silent Hill features a gameplay twist that works very well with its limited visibility environments. Harry carries a radio with him that crackles with static whenever the game's nasties are near, and continues until they are no longer in the vicinity or have been killed off. (Enemies may require further whacking when they're down, as they like to play dead.) Additionally, the supported Dual-Shock controller pulsates in a heartbeat-like fashion whenever you are moderately or seriously injured. --Joe Hon
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The original and the best March 14, 2008
Hayley Jackson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Despite this game being quite a few years old now it still the best in the series. Each time I play this game it never fails to entertain. The atomsphere is dark and heavy. Not forgetting the awsome soundtrack that oozes fear. A town full of fog, snow and monsters set this game apart from other 'survival horror' games. The characters are well developed and there is a pleasent depth to the plot of silent hill, which falls into place nicely at the end of the game. With five endings to play for this is a game worth playing again. A well deserved five stars.
Scary. Brilliant. October 11, 2007
The Big Onion (london)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The biggest problem that this game has ever had is that it was labelled 'Survival Horror' and lumped into a category with Resident Evil, with which it was then unfavourably compared. The fact of the matter is that the two games have relatively little in common.
Resident Evil is very heavily influenced by George A Romero - all frantic and lumbering zombies, wave after wave of flesh-eating monster trying to hunt down and kill the soldier-types who are the protagonists. Silent Hill has much more to do with psychological horror - the very street names, such as Bloch and Bachman give away the design team's inspiration. This is a game that doesn't try to make you jump - it tries to make you turn on all the lights when you're playing it because you feel THAT uneasy. You don't take the role of a sterotypical hero, just a normal guy who's out of his depth and trying to figure out what on earth is going on. Aren't we all?
The strength of the game is in the atmosphere - the grainy darkness, the torchlight and half-glimpsed horrors of the backgrounds. The way that sound effects can come from nowhere, shocking and terrifying with just the sound of crying. The lack of understanding exactly what's going on, and the fact that even the sympathetic characters are rarely what they seem, or if they are, then at as least as much risk as the good Mr Mason.
With five possible endings (including the great UFO ending) and a whole bunch of variations available every time it's replayed, even the fact that the game isn't that long doesn't count against it.
Go on, play it with the lights turned off. Dare you.
The ultimate in survival horror. October 8, 2007
Mr. R. Mayou (Solihull, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the first moment this game fires up and the opening cutscene plays with that awesome theme tune you realise this is different. Then the game starts. What then proceeds is the most chilling, bloodcurdling game straight from the seventh dimension. The graphics may be dated now but the terror in this game is still tantamount throughout. The fog, actually a way of making so that the developers dont have to do the full 3D world, is frightening as you cannot see whats ahead. Especially when the radios warning noise starts telling you something is there and you cant see it. The darkness follows when you get to the school and just when you think you cant be scared enough the siren starts and hells mouth opens. Simply THE greatest survival horror of all time particularly when coupled with its succesors. The Res Evil makers came close with 4 to matching but are still way off. If you missed this first time around and are curious because of 5 dont even hesitate. BE PREPARED TO BE SCARED!!
The beginning of the best survival horror series ever made. January 2, 2007
Luke (York, Eng UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm pretty sure I played this game when it had first come out but I couldn't remember how it went and couldn't seem to find the game in my house. So I bought I new one to play it again. Despite being on PS1 and therefore having the expected pretty dated graphic quality, I saw again why this is seen by most as THE best of the series.
For those of you have seen the film, the storyline is that of this game, the story of Alessa and in my oppinion the BEST game storyline ever written. It is disturbing, compelling and extremely emotional.
The cut scene before the game starts shows the protagonist Harry Mason his daughter Cheryl, driving down the highway presumably towards Silent Hill, when something distracts Harry and causes him to crash. When you wake up Cheryl is gone, and so the game begins with you setting out to find your missing daughter. The first encounter with the creatures of Silent Hill is adapted perfectly in the film and from there you wake up in a restaurant and meet Cybil Bennet, a police officer from the next town, who you continue to bump into throughout the game.
Silent Hill is probably best known for it's otherworld, and this game has THE best otherworld of the lot, with the town completely changing as it does in the film, turning to rusted metal and with rain falling in the darkness. The otherworld of the 2 sequels are both disturbing in their own way, but they are not on the same level with the first one.
As you work your way through the game, the story and background to the town of Silent Hill becomes clear, and is probably, one of the most disturbing stories I have ever heard of. The first may be the story of Silent Hill 2. Alessa is the daughter of the leader of a mad cult in Silent Hill. The otherworld of the town, is in fact Allessa's nightmares come to life due to her immense psychic powers. When she was young, her mother used her as a sacrifice in an attempt to bring about the birth of God, but failed. Allessa was able to split her soul in two, the "good" half being the child Cheryl. The other half, enduring years of suffering and nightmares in a comatose state, and so bringing about the creation of the otherworld.
The soundtrack to the game I think is one of the best parts. Perhaps more so in the sequels, the sound effects and music composed by Akira Yamaoka is absolutely brilliant and is easily identifyable.
As for enemies, this game I think has the worst. No different from the other mediocre average horror survival games of the time; zombie dogs and giant moths. It is from Silent Hill 2 onwards that charecterised Silent Hill as owning the most disturbing enemies imaginable within a game. The reason I have only rated the fun factor of this game as four stars, is the final boss, which for me was rather dissapointing. However, the game has multiple endings and the final boss changes with each one but I haven't yet got round to playing it a second time through.
However, flaws aside the storyline of this game makes it one of the best of all time and the start to the most popular and frightening horror series of all time. Forget about Resident Evil and all the other games in this genre. Although they make their own style and that maybe good when judged individually, they come no where near to even comparing to Silent Hill, so if you haven't yet played this series, it is an absolute must.
As for those people who say that you should start off with the worst in the series, or start with a less enthralling sequel, don't. You should start the series at the beginning, as they follow on from one another and that is after all, how the makers intended the games to be played.
Buy this game October 6, 2006
Mike Jonze
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Silent Hill is probably one of the best video games ever made and is the scarier cousin to Resident Hill. In fact, Silent Hill is better than Resident Evil!!!
The setting is brilliant, a deserted town slowly turning to hell, covered in fog. It's the fog that realyl makes it - you can't see anything, but through the use of a radio, you can hear something moving in the fog.
If you play this game in the dark, i guarentee it's scary. Even as a PS1 game, it doesn't seem to date.
Silent Hill is probably the best in the series (although 2 is close) and it's one of those games that has such a good story line that you always want to know what's going to happen next.
The film used this plot, changing the lead to a woman, but couldn't make it as scary as the game where danger lurks in the fog.
If you want a really scary game then i recomend that you buy this game
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