Silent Hill 8 Gets A Wet Change
The announcement of Silent Hill 8 was a nice surprise at E3 2010, but something told us that title wouldn’t stick around for long. Konami has recently changed the title of the game, and it coincides with a major element of the game.
Dubbed Silent Hill: Downpour, a recent article spotted in the Game Informer magazine detailed some of the key features of the game. As the title suggests, water plays a big part in the upcoming horror game. Things such as rivers that seem to flow across the ceiling are described. This entry will take place in the areas to the southeast portions of the maps of previous Silent Hill titles. Regular locations such as schools and hospitals will not be making appearances here. The area that you can explore is so large, in fact, that a subway system has been put into place in order to make traveling easier. Sidequests will also be available, though how they are initiated has not yet been detailed. Avoidance of battles is the preferred method of progressing in the game, since there is no weapon inventory (meaning fewer items that the player can carry, and items will wear out). The player can deliver “incapacitating blows” to enemies and use that opportunity to run from the fight. Boss battles, however, are unavoidable and cannot be escaped. They will also utilize quick-time events. Puzzles will also sport difficulty levels.
A lot seems to have changed for the Silent Hill franchise, and you can stay connected with PlayStation LifeStyle for more on this series as the news unfolds. Silent Hill: Downpour is currently scheduled for a release later this year.
9 Responses to “Silent Hill 8 Gets A Wet Change”
From the developers of Silent Hill 8 comes an otherworldly experience:
….uh, Silent Hill 8!
Heh, I just looked up what the developers of this game had done before…they are called “Vatra” and they have nothing on their resume as a company, Silent Hill (along with a Rush’N Attack game also in development) will be their first games. The Studio Head used to work with 2K games doing some sport titles…the only member of their staff that seems to have some kind of “considerable” background to tackle a Silent Hill project is the Design Director who worked creating Clive Barker’s Jericho. Almost all the art guys worked on these “Hidden and Dangerous” titles I had never heard of in my life…I just googled around and see they are a “tactical war” kind of thing…
Dreadful…for all the wrong reasons.
It’s not that I don’t trust a new generation of (hopefully) talented unknown developers, but doesn’t Silent Hill deserve better? Silent Hill used to be a top franchise for Konami, it isn’t even the same case as Castlevania which was irrelevant (for consoles at least) for a very long time, and yet they took this noobs from Mercurysteam which (now I found) also developed Clive Barker’s Jericho? wth? and trusted them with this reboot that turned out to be not what the Castlevania franchise needed. And still they put Kojima overlooking things on that one. But Silent Hill now given to a bunch of noobs too? Konami, what ever happened to your japanese studios!? what’s with all this “westernization” and Japanese precious franchises being redone by all this western noobs! (I’m also looking at you Capcom and “DmC”). Damn, it seems Kojima Productions is the only remnant of light left from the “old Konami”.
Well….the reboot being bad is an opinion. I actually thoroughly enjoyed Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. I thought it was the best Castlevania in a long time and one of the best games of the year.
I think many aren’t liking it because they want to the old formula of exploring a castle…..but it was a reboot for a reason meaning that the developer could do whatever they want as long as some elements of the old still exist. The game still did have it’s problems but they were fairly minor (I’d say) and a HUGE HUGE step up for the company that made Jerico.
And I think the reason Japanese studios are handing over work to the american studios is because well…American studios are rocking the gaming world right now. Most of the big japanese franchies that dominated in the PS2 era, suck now or are still the same, no evolution or real change. Take FF14 as an example. Still the same tired formula that FF has done for years.
I don’t even think Japanese games are getting nominated for Game of the Year anymore. Except for the MGS series which still manages to innovate and just be damn good even on the handhelds.
Japanese companies are really just being left in the dust after the PS2 era when they ruled the gaming world but now in terms of quality, story, gameplay, just about any American or European made game tends to outshine many Japanese games. *there are a few exceptions but that goes both ways.
I did not intend to ramble but I did haha.
dmc isn’t really a reboot but an origin story and takes place before dmc1 like devil may cry begins , which is why it sthe same character but looks differnt.
They have labeled it a reboot, so it’s a slightly different dante for many reasons. It’s an origin story but definably a reboot.
Devil May Cry 3 was the origin story for the current Dante.
At least that’s how I understand it.
well the point should be yo ucan’t really judge a game with out seeing more game play of officall game play or even playing it. with the new silent hill and devil may cry. i’m still hopping they do a collection of silent hill games 2 , 3 , and 4. maybe even orgins since it was also on the ps2.
After Origins and Homecoming, I’ll only buy a SH when I know that the original developers are the ones who will develop it.
origins was a good psp game , it was ported to ps2 , but it was ment to be psp game , home coming was actually good i liked it , it wasnt a typical silent hill game but it gave a differnt side of the story.
HEY GUYS, YOU LIKED HEAVY RAIN A LOT SO WE MADE THIS GAME WITH DOWNPOUR IN THE TITLE, KINDA LIKE RAIN, GET IT!?