Silent Hill: Downpour

I want to start off by saying Ive got Every Silent Hill on its release day and have been a huge fan since the beggining! I love this game and the 3D is flawless! Don't listen to IGN or the other pour reviews. The story is solid the controls are oldschool and the soundtrack is great ( besides the one korn song which isnt as bad as some people are saying it kind of fits surprizingly.) The only issue I have is around the save spots it gets kinda laggy but hopefully an update will fix it down the road and even if not its really not a big deal. I highly recomend it you wont be disappointed. Is it as good as 2 no but its a great game and its alot better then Homecoming or Shattered Dreams. Its a must buy for Silent Hill fans! Also for the record The Room was a great game that tied up alot of random Walter Sullivan notes from 2 & 3 I dot get why some people are puting that one down either. BUY DOWNPOUR ITS SIIICK!

The Silent Hill franchise is one that very is so beloved, that recent sequels get scrutinized to see whether they deserve to be called a Silent Hill. It is my opinion that Silent Hill Downpour is deserving of the name, due to its story and its depiction of the fabled town.The first 3 Silent Hill games set the ambiance and rules for the town of Silent Hill. The first one and third one set up the back story of how the town became. While SH2 sets up what the town does to people “visiting”, and how the town and otherworld affect them physically, visually, and mentally. Downpour did a great job following these rules and setting a good story for our main hero Murphy Pendleton.Murphy has been imprisoned for stealing a police cruiser, some time after his son was kidnapped and murdered. During his time in prison, certain mysterious events happen to him while in prison that leads him to be transferred to another prison. During this transfer, the bus crashes near the outskirts of Silent Hill. Now trapped in the mysterious town, he is chased by a corrections officer who seems to have a personal grudge against him.After the brief prison tutorial, the game starts you out on the outskirts of the town, you have to traverse an area called the Devils Canyon before you can explore the town of Silent Hill. This dungeon seemed to be very “Bright Falls” which didn’t give me a good impression of the game at first. Once that area was over, and I was able to explore the town, that’s when the game felt like a Silent Hill. The town doesn’t have many buildings to visit for the story, but it does have an explorable town with various side quests. The side quests vary between looking for objects, solving puzzles, and even survival, where enemies come in waves. The town is fantastic, it looks great, its creepy, it has the right amount of fog, and it rains at different times. The otherworld looks great, but unlike previous titles this otherworld doesn’t conform to the dimensions of its original surroundings. It can change sizes, create new areas and affect physics. The otherworld themes are industrial, prison/cages, and water. The story and the different side quest can take around 15 hours. There is also multiple endings requiring more playtroughs.The combat has been rightfully criticized for its bad hit detection, however the enemies are not very difficult even with this oversight, and it’s just annoying when fighting multiple enemies. First aid kits are used in real time. This means you have to run away to safety and heal if you are low on health. Otherwise, enemies will attack you as you look for health kits in the item menu. There are an unfortunate small amount of enemy models, around five different types throughout the entire game, 4 of them “human like”. Men with hooks on their faces, a larger version of this one, a mannequin ghost, and the most frequent one, a dirty lady in a nightgown. There are no boss fights in Downpour, in their place there are these chase sections. During these, you run away from a small black hole enemy that chases you throughout the buildings as you dodge objects and find a path to safety. The puzzles difficulty can be adjusted, this seems to only affect the placement of objects and how dials move. The difficulty is not like the Shakespeare puzzle from SH3, you shouldn’t need a guide for help.Silent Hill Downpour is not perfect, but it’s a very good game in the franchise. The atmosphere, story and characters are well done. Exploring the town can give you the creeps and even provide some scares. I truly enjoyed playing this game, I recommend it to fans of the series and it’s a good introduction game for newcomers of the series.

I've heard a lot of complaints about this game, most of which revolve around the original games' composer leaving and a new composer being picked up-- I didn't notice much of a difference in terms of music, as I've played all the other "Silent Hill" games over the last fourteen years. The score is a little different, yeah, but it's not bad, in fact, I thought it was pretty chilling. Daniel Licht, known for "Hellraiser IV: Bloodline," did a fine job.Now, onto the game. Without giving too much away, it's your standard "Silent Hill" fare, a man with a tragic past winds up in the spooky eponymous town of Silent Hill where he is forced to face his own sins that have manifested in the flesh into the forms of super scary monsters. This time around, your character, Murphy, is a convict on the loose after escaping a prison bus on his way to be transported to a maximum security facility that crashed into a ravine outside everyone's favorite spooky resort town.That said, the game, like all the other "Silent Hill" titles, has what I've discovered to be two main "themes."The first is a "personal theme," in this case, it's Murphy's prison lifestyle that helps mold the world around him. Prison is an interesting thing to explore in video-games and I'm surprised that they didn't use a convict or ex-con earlier in the series as a playable character. Many games ("Fable" springs to mind.) involve your character in prison at some point and a subsequent escape. So for Murphy, he's afraid of being locked up again, or we hear the sounds of police sirens in the distance and when they get close, hellish police cruisers appear and monsters pop out of them. It's that psychological "tripping" that has always made the series fantastic.The second is what I call the "Pain Elemental," (Which I named after a monster in the original "Doom" games.) the Pain Elemental is the element that defines the game. In the first game, "Silent Hill" from 1999, it was fire, in the second game, "Restless Dreams" it was air. They dance around a lot, but in this game, as you'd expect from the title, it's water. In the experiences I've had in my life, I can tell you that water is far more destructive than fire-- having lived through floods, I know what water does to a house that gets hit by five feet of water outside without a basement for it to leak into when you're twenty yards from the overflowing creek. So yes, I'm afraid of water-- and that's one of the things that made this game so scary for me.The game-play is a HUGE improvement over the previous title in the "canonical" series, which was "Silent Hill Homecoming." While "Homecoming" featured promising game-play unlike that which we'd seen in a "Silent Hill" title before, it was still buggy and out of place. "Silent Hill Downpour" perfects what "Homecoming" attempted to do, and that's create a third-person, frustration free camera angle survival horror game. The game is also, and this is going to sound weird, but fairly 'open world,' if you unlock the subway, you can travel all around town all you want and explore and do side-quests and whatnot. So that's another first for the series, is being able to explore the town in an almost sandbox-mode.The story is, good as always. I have no complaints, and I don't want to give any more away than I already have seeing that I've explained a good amount of the story already. On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst game I've ever played and ten being the most fantastic game ever made, I'd give this a solid eight. It's the second-best game in the "Silent Hill" series, second only to "Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams," which is pretty much the best survival horror game ever made in terms of storytelling and scare-factor.If you're a fan of the "Silent Hill" games, check it out. It's a pretty cheap game, but you get a lot of bang for your buck.

Another Silent Hill getting by on its story line alone. The visuals are actually quite nice, very gloomy and vivid, though still a little dark (as in literally not enough light), speaking of which, STUPID flash light system. The story line is the best part about this game, being the whole child-killer/redemption thing, but jesus, I would've liked another movie next to this travesty. Weapon system is an absolute joke, and I don't only mean that everything breaks VERY EASILY (and you don't know when it will happen) along with your GUNS, which I couldn't believe. Camera is not an absolute joke, but I sure as hell had a good laugh, especially in certain rooms where they freeze the camera in one spot for whatever reason. Also, we have yet AGAIN another game that just refuses to put in a coherent map-system, two words every game creator on the planet, MINI-MAP, you want another two words? FULL ZOOM. Very vague side-quests, and even vague-er journal. Extremely cut and dry world in the sense that there's not much to grab, and relatively no places to go.Not worth it if you're on a budget, but doable if you got extra money to throw at the developers.

If you read reviews before buying games you've seen 3 negative things said about this game:1)Frame rate issues abound.2)Monster designs are really bad, boring and not up to the series' standards.3)Akira Yamaoka, the composer and producer of the series is no longer part of it.And all three are true. But before I tell you what I think of those three things I have 3 others that you should give more importance to:1)This is the best story in the Silent Hill series after Silent Hill 2, it's deep, complex, and incredibly surprising after you thought all the twists had been spent on this series.2)The town and the environments look amazing. Silent Hill has never looked better. The town looks like it was once alive, inhabited and all of a sudden something went horribly wrong. The atmosphere is heavy and isolating and every time you see a little rain start to drop you'll start getting anxious and worried.3)The side quests are the best addition to Silent Hill since it started. They add so much depth and so much value to the game, I hope they become a mainstay.Now, why don't those 3 negatives above matter aside from those 3 positives I mentioned?1)The frame rate has been patched. It's not perfect but it's no longer distracting or problematic. The patch also fixed some bugs throughout the game, making this a nearly moot point unless you're incredibly nitpicky.2)What it lacks in monster designs (yes they're lazy as hell), it makes up for in atmosphere and in it's Otherworld sequences, which are some of the best in the series. They don't hold back on the insanity and the weirdness and don't feel constrained by something as mundane as physics, gravity or logic. Awesome design for the Otherworld.3)Akira is gone and he will be missed, but Daniel Licht (from Dexter) does an incredible job of creating mood and feeling with his composition which stays true to the series' roots whil adding his own little touch of quirkyness. I thought I would HATE having actual songs from several artists in a soundtrack, but THE WAY THEY ARE USED is just a stroke of genius and inspiration on Licht's side.Anything else? Oh yes:1)Unlike other protagonists retreading the old "what did this protagonist do to deserve this", you KNOW from the beginning what Murphy did to be in Silent Hill, now it's about finding out what's behind that and if there's something else in the periphery. Awesome story.2)Murphy reacts realistically to his environment, he is always visibly nervous, he screams in terror while being chased or shocked like you would if you were being chased down a dark alternate universe labyrinth by something that wants to undoubtedly kill you.3)The variety of weapons (all breakable) and the scarcity of guns and ammo make this true survival horror. Don't have an axe? Grab a broken table leg and pray it's enough.4)The story FINALLY is truly stand-alone like in SH2, so no, Murphy is not Alessa's long lost half cousin from the neighboring town of Brahms, and raised by retired cult members. This is its own story. There are Easter Eggs and tiny cameos reminding of the previous stories, but that's it.5)IF YOU HAVE A 3D TV PLAY THIS IN 3D, IT ADDS A LAYER OF DEPTH THAT EXPONENTIATES THE ATMOSPHERE. THIS GAME WAS MADE TO BE PLAYED IN 3D, I'M CONVINCED OF THAT. It's not "things come out of the screen" 3D but "Depth 3D" truly great.So, I've rambled long enough. You should definitely buy this game, if this is the direction Silent Hill stories and gameplay are going from now on, you should buy this game so Konami knows it's the right direction. Sure, it has things that need improving, but that happens with any shift in direction, and we should reward Konami and Vatra for something well made.Buy this, stick with it, you won't regret it.

This is the first Silent Hill game I've played since The Room on PS2, and I'm loving every minute of it. Like others, I'm a little puzzled about the mediocre reviews for this game, but I guess that's why there's so many different types of games around. Here's a few random thoughts, and I hope you'll assume the "in my opinion" part without me writing it all the time.1. The atmosphere is terrific. Every bit as dark, stormy and eerie as you'd like it. (Yes, it's PS3 stuff but I don't mind. The occasional "clunkiness" gives it kind of a retro feel that I didn't find bothersome.)2. This is a game where avoiding combat whenever possible is the way to go. Like other Silent Hill characters, Murphy is not a super hero, ninja, special forces type. He is, in fact, a bit clumsy with weapons and I think that's the idea. In most ways, he's pretty much a regular guy.3. The game requires a real love for problem solving and lots of patience. For me, solving the many side quests - without cheating, of course - was very tough, indeed. (I'll admit it: I had a hard time finishing the Water Prison section in The Room, too. Now you know.)Anyway, I'm just getting started on a replay now. As we Silent Hill people know, more stuff gets unlocked on a replay and I'm gonna find it all this time.

This is arguably my favorite Silent Hill game. The plot is amazing and scary in a real world way (as regards the neighbor). There's tons of little creepy things hidden throughout the game, books etc. Then the big things like for example the cop cars near the beginning and the movie theater side quest just creep me out more than anything in the previous games. It's brought back the open world exploration. Downpour also has a high replay value in my opinion with the multiple endings and difficulties. This is the first and only game (of any type) I've ever gotten every trophy for. Also, a personal reason I may like this game a lot is because I work in a prison so I appreciate the prison theme.Downpour does have some negatives. Most of those involve combat, which is the recurrent downside in all Silent Hill games. Combat leaves much to be desired, especially in melee. The enemies are less interesting than in previous games. They are almost all humanoid zombie-esque things, and there isn't as much variety as you'd expect from a game this size.Also the size of Silent Hill in this game is just nonsensical. Subways? And really the city as portrayed doesn't justify subways. It's still relatively small even in the immediate vicinity of the subway stations. But the subways did add to the gameplay, and the skyscraper level was interesting. Another weirdness is plot related. I thought Silent Hill was basically an evil town that punished people for their sins and/or helped demons attempt to take over the world. so it's a little odd that in this game Silent Hill's motive seems to be a morality lesson (on the sin of vengeance). It's handled so well though, particularly with the contrast of the secondary protagonist (Anne), that I can't really complain.I just can't figure out why this game gets so little respect.

Shipping was fast i received my item in great condition it's exactly what I paid im satisfied with this purchase.

Excellent game

my husband loves it thank you very much :)

Fantastic survival horror gaming at its best

Hier hat Konami mal wieder ein Meisterwerk abgeliefert, besser als der Vorgänger, Konami kehrt wieder zu seinen Wurzeln zurück.Super Gruselatmosphäre wie man es noch von den ersten zwei Teilen kennt, hier stimmt wirklich die Balance zwischen Action undSurvival-Horror, aber leider nichts für Zartbesaitete. Klare Kaufempfehlung.

This game is great. Sure it has a few FPS issues but that is not a big problem. The graphics are well done. The play is easy and it is easy to pick up, but it is difficult to put down. You want to keep playing the story and find out what the story is about the main character. Great overall game and the controls are very easy to get used to. So if you like SILENT HILL you will love this one.