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Silent Hill Downpour (PS3)

by Konami
PlayStation 3  Ages 18 and Over
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
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  • Platform:   PlayStation 3
  • Media: Video Game
  • Item Quantity: 1
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  • ASIN: B0058H1VFS
  • Release Date: 30 Mar 2012
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,373 in PC & Video Games (See Top 100 in PC & Video Games)

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Silent Hill: Downpour marks the series' return to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and brings a completely original storyline which follows Murphy Pendleton, a convict stranded in the foggy, malevolent world of Silent Hill. Pendleton begins the game lost and alone in the woods on the outskirts of the fabled town, when his prison transport bus crashes...

What happens after this is up to the player, as Silent Hill: Downpour reveals a new, expansive environment that is similarly claustrophobic and where the player is never truly alone.

Product Description

Staying true to the franchise's original roots, the game returns with another third person horror experience, and an all new thought provoking storyline. Players will once again find themselves face to face with their deepest sins and fears in the strange world of Silent Hill.

The survival horror experience begins after a prison transport vehicle careens off the road, leaving lone inmate Murphy Pendleton stranded in Silent Hill. Gamers will encounter mind-bending puzzles, as well as horrific creatures and otherworld terrors using everyday objects from wooden chairs to glass bottles to fend off their enemies. The natural response, fight or flight is left to the player as they unravel a more dark, thought-provoking storyline which will appeal to fans of the early, classic Silent Hill series, as well as anyone who enjoys a deep, psychological horror experience.

In addition to the main storyline, players will also be presented with variable side quests along the way that can change depending on their play style, revealing unknown evils within the town

 

  • All new and updated Silent Hill experience that visually stands on its own with the current competition. Utilizing Unreal 3 technology, the game brings the town of Silent Hill, its characters, the creatures and the alternate hell world into vivid and spectacular display
  • Free-roaming and deep exploration that will take players into all-new 'Side Quests' unlocking areas within the game, special items and bonus content
  • An ever-changing game world including day and night 'Normal' world and 'Otherworld' world, all manifested and sourced from character actions throughout the game
  • First-time ever 3D technology will bring Silent Hill a step closer to the player with three-dimensional immersion

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Actually pleasantly surprised! Mostly..... 2 Jun 2012
Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   
Like most people i was put off buying this by the reviews and the lack of retail support (couldn`t find it anywhere!).However i`m glad the Silent Hill fan within me took over and after much searching i purchased my copy and eagerly began playing it.

First impressions of the game were ok.It looks like Silent Hill,it sounds like Silent Hill and some of the voice acting is terrible and wooden,like Silent Hill. (whats.going.on.with.that.radio??) To start with i had none of the famous glitching UNTIL about an hour into the game (it may only be 10 mins for most,i spend AGES looking around). If you like spontanious fog then this is a game for you. Now you see it,now you don`t,now you see it..... Oh and the character started taking leaps and bounds in a jittery way rather than walking in the normal one-foot-infront-of-the-other form that humans have adapted.But then this is Silent Hill afterall.......

But hey ho! i was not bothered too much by this latest development and continued to enjoy the many areas and puzzles of the game. Some of the puzzles are fab and worth playing the game for. They really come alive,you`ll see what i mean. Some are just your run of the mill moving things about or finding keys but its always pleasantly frustrating to find a locked door knowing (hoping) you`ll find a key soon enough.There are lots of buildings big and small to explore,my fave so far being the monastry.There`s nothing better than entering a building,finding a map and thinking "wow,this place is big!".

Is the game scary?I would say yes,some of it. Some days when i`m feeling brave i play for hours,shouting obsenities at the monsters i encounter.Other days however i can bearly muster the courage to go through the door/window/hole in wall etc etc and my cat only has to brush up against me while playing and that`s that,off goes the playstation and i`m off to replace my soiled knickers!But then i am a girl,and girls get scared of scary things!I have to say there is alot less time spent in the hellworld side of the game and on the few occasions you do find yourself unwittingly transported there,you will most likely be busy getting p*ssed off with the red light that is determined to engulf you unless you run blindly at breakneck speed only to realise you have already seen this corridor/room/metal grate.Three times.But again,not enough to tarnish the game as a whole.

Now to the monsters......I`m not totally sold.I`m not sure who thought it was a good idea to use a homeless guy and his shrieking bit on the side as the main monsters but there you go.It`s still satisfying to club them over the head with various tools and I suppose we have still come a long way from the waddling 2 foot tall brown lumps from SH1!Still preferred the good `ole nurses though.There are other monsters too but again,they could have been a bit scarier. A primark dummy that some kid has used mummy`s make up on?Hmmm....judge for yourselves!

All in all,a pretty good game but you can`t deny the flaws are there. Unless you are lucky enough not to have any! I am playing on a very old,chunky PS3 afterall.I`m very glad i got this and the interesting side missions more than make up for the lack of other things in my opinion as there is always something to do!
If you are a SH fan,buy this. :-)
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43 of 50 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good story, flawed game. 30 Mar 2012
Fun: 2.0 out of 5 stars   
I'm a big Silent Hill fan. It's been a long time since the golden days of SH2 and as the ps2 era was coming to an end, fans looked ahead for a new game to bring the series into the next generation which sadly never arrived. Instead of a next gen equivalent of SH2 we got a couple of badly made spinoff titles, remakes and fan service cash ins. Origins was a weird remake style mess, homecoming missed the point so far it may aswell have been shot backwards, and the wii game... oh boy. I am starting to see why the original japanese developers bailed after the ps2 gen.

So what is Downpour like? well, it is better than all of the games post Sh4 but falls short of the brilliance of the first 3 games. If you are a silent hill fan, it is worth your time. If not, pick up the forthcoming SH HD classic pack for ps3 which has the best games in the series.

- Story, spoiler free

A shining example when compared to modern games, but James Sunderland would be turning in his grave before it knocked Sh2 off it's pedestal. We play Murphy Pendleton, a thirty something convict who finds himself in Silent Hill when his prison transport bus crashes into a forest during a rainstorm. Little is given away as we wonder through a foggy forest into town. The story unfolds in the same way it always does via notes on the ground, flashbacks, symbolism in environments and monsters. Without spoiling much, our Murph has a troubled and violent past - which is the Silent Hill equivalent of a season ticket. Lots of twists/turns and a well written tale. Sadly the voice acting is a bit of a letdown with most characters not reflecting the emotion they speak very well. Overall, the story is the reason you should buy the game.

- Atmosphere

Excellent. I was more than happy to see they returned to the roots of the series with genuinely creepy art design, whisping fog and some great sound effects. Daniel Licht (the master composer behind the Dexter tv series) scored the soundtrack to the game and did a good job. The world is lonely, dark and foreboding. Top marks here, and no out of place appearances of Pyramid Head or Sean Bean.

- Gameplay

Here is when things start to fall apart. Fortuntely though we have the traditional medikit health system instead of the popular "never die health regen" crap that is in most games these days. This helps to build tension thst is sadly dispersed by the woeful combat. It feels as though the devs recognised that SH games had pretty woeful combat in general, but oversaw it as some kind of game design choice. The combat is limiting and unfair in SH 2 for a couple of reasons, the biggest being that you are supposed to be a regular joe flailing pipes and wood around in terror rather than a hulking meat head smasnhing skulls with regenerating health. Downpour seems to imitate combat elements on purpose, probably in attempt to stay traditional to the series, but it fails and becomes both frustrating and tedious. I generally groaned when monsters where around because the combat leaves much to be desired. Blocking is glitchy, weapons such as fireaxes break as if they where made of cardboard... but i am glad they went for SH 2 style melee combat with only a few guns and very rare ammo pickups, rather than the weird 3rd person action/quick time event mess that was Homecoming.

- Graphics

I play and review based of the above points, but it is only fair to include graphics at the end because they do look nice. Whispy fog, realistic water effects and some great art design. Silent Hill looks good. Sadly though it has some pretty dodgy texture popping and frame rate issues..

- Negatives

So we have a lot of bad design choices on display in this game, to put it nicely. It was not too bad at first but as time goes on I was starting to wonder if anyone at development bothered taking time to playtest some of the clangers of game design that are in here. Quick time event sequences that have you repeating cut scenes because they pop out of nowhere, false moral choices every now and then that dont change outcomes despite what you chose to do (Why bother!?) and somewhat game crippling combat being the biggest issue. It also suffers from a seriously busted auto save system that regularly sends you back half an hour upon death, sometimes making you view the same unskippable cutscenes 5 times over until you get to the next checkpoints. NO ONE could possibly look at this and think "yeah, this wont piss anyone off". Another totally baffling element is the police cars that roam the streets, spawning monsters arcade style if they spot you. Thankfuly if you complete the side quest in the police station they dissappear for good. There is also far too much combat in the last quarter of the game for my taste, and when it is not very enjoyable it becomes frustrating. One level in particular on hard mode made me rage after seeing the same battle intro over 10 times. The combat system just was not built for more than one enemy on screen at once... so when there's 3 guys kicking your head in from all directions dealing 25% health dmg per second while poor old Murph swings his cardboard axe once every 5 seconds before it breaks I gurantee you will rage. (Not to mention he turns around and blocks at the pace of a pensionner!) Dear oh dear... and to top it off, while Murph is getting beaten to death as you mash the tempermental block button, the semi-fixed camera is spazzing out doing 360's. It's just a nightmare and whoever thought it was a good idea needs a slap.

Fortunately the story and side quests which deepen the experience were top notch and kept my attention. There are 6 endings to get but i doubt anyone will care enough to suffer the issues again for the minor differences in each. The biggest question of all for fans - is it scary? well, it is creepy in places, and does have a handful of genuinely scary moments, but it is not as unsettling as previous outings. One last niggle - the main character is a COMPLETE moron with as much personality as a plank of wood. He reminds me of the derp from Heavy Rain (I wonder if it is the same voice actor as they sound alike, too).

- Overall

It started out so well but about half way through it becomes one of those games that you wish had better gameplay to match the great story. Sadly this experience is hindered with bad / tired game design and combat, but the great story makes it worth a pickup if you are a fan of the series. If you've never played one of these games before, this wont show you the best of Silent Hill. I would say pick it up when its cheaper. Fortunately though, the developers seem to respect the franchise and did their homework on what the original games where about - atmosphere and story. I suspect they were pressured into including all the crappy cliches of modern games by the publishers or something.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting game with problems. 14 April 2013
By Mikael
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I was pleasantly suprised by this game after hearing bad stuff about it. Personally, It's my favourite Silent Hill game since the sencond and third ones (and I'm not so much of a fan of the third one to be honest). What really does it for me is how the story progresses. It feels a bit like it did in the second game, which is just great in my opinion. It's far from perfect, however. The four stars is because of the storyline and exploration feel to it. Now the things i do not like so much..
*Optimization. Not good, not good at all. Choppy when it loads new areas and stuff like that. Feels broken that way.
*Enemies - They get a 2/5 from me for the most part. They just aren't that scary or well made, feels a bit cheap.
*Sidequests - Meh. Dunno about them, personally i could have done without i think.

Those things may seem like a big deal, especially the enemy part. To me it doesn't matter as much since the storyline is really great. If you agree with me that story and exploration is probably the most important. If you are the adventure game type, then you will probably enjoy it. Otherwise, It's not worth more then three stars.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Moments of greatness but also lots of rubbish moments
This is probably best as a rental or loaned as it is a interesting but ultimately disappointing game for fans of the franchise. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Mr Blonde
5.0 out of 5 stars Gutes Spiel guter Laden!
Mit der Lieferung hat alles gut geklappt, aber eben etwas gedauert. Dies nimmt man aber gerne in Kauf bei diesen günstigen Preisen hier in UK. Read more
Published 1 month ago by E. Rainer
5.0 out of 5 stars Hippo
Yes its choppy in scenes but i have been playing this for weeks graphics are brilliant its different for less than £20 its a steal
Published 1 month ago by Mr. H. P. Owen
1.0 out of 5 stars What a disappointment.
I can't review this game as a gamer who has completed it simply because it is unplayable to anyone expecting quality. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Robert Fulton
4.0 out of 5 stars Better than expected.
Thoroughly enjoyable game. A bit 'buggy' in parts but overall a lot of fun. Excellent in parts. Definitely worth a play.
Published 2 months ago by T. Mcgarry
5.0 out of 5 stars silent hill downpour
i choose this rating because i like this game.
i like this game very much.
I picked myself this game
Published 2 months ago by spiros patrinos
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it
I love the silent hill series. This game as been so hard to find. Shame really its a good game.
Published 2 months ago by amanda williams
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this game!!!!
Very good, as i expected!!!It came at the right time ,great package and nice price!!! I will order again ps3 games
Published 3 months ago by ARETI DOUMANI
5.0 out of 5 stars Silent Hill Downpour
If you loved Silent Hill films and the games, especially Silent Hill: Homecoming, then Konami have taken Silent Hill to a new level. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Sam
5.0 out of 5 stars Survival Horror
I am a big fan of survival horror and this one fits nicely into my category not as good as the Resident Evil series but I still like it
Published 4 months ago by Mr. A. Hornby
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