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Two of Konami’s recent titles - Silent Hill HD Collection and Silent Hill: Downpour - have come under fire from fans for shipping with numerous bugs and framerate issues. The publisher has vowed to patch both games in the coming weeks, asserting that, “Players have voiced their concerns, and solutions to these issues will be fixed.”
The Silent Hill series has been around for thirteen years now and has struggled to stay relevant since Silent Hill 3’s release in 2003. Silent Hill 4: The Room was a low point for the series and since then Konami has handed over development duties to overseas companies such as Climax Studios and Double Helix Games. Silent Hill: Downpour, was developed by Vatra Games from the Czech Republic and is only the company’s second project since it was founded in 2009.
You’d expect the inexperience of this studio to have a significant impact on the latest Silent Hill title, and to some extent it does, but despite dated visuals, a few technical issues and coarse combat (which has never been the series’ strong point), Silent Hill: Downpour is an excellent survival horror title that excels when it comes to narrative, atmosphere and exploration. Once it has you in its grasp don’t expect to see sunlight until your compelling journey through Silent Hill has come to an end.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Silent Hill: Downpour.
After delays, promises of releases dates, and then even more delays, Konami has announced when gamers the world over will be able to pick up Silent Hill: Downpour on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and we don’t have too much longer to prepare our bowels and bladders for the publisher’s next survival horror action game.
Not only that, but dates for Silent Hill HD Collection and Silent Hill Book of Memories for PS Vita have also been revealed - creepy overload!
Fans of Konami’s classic survival horror series of action games are soon going to be spoiled for choice with no less than three different experiences set to appear in early 2012, all set in the creepy, stomach-churning universe of Silent Hill.
The writing has been on the wall for some time now, but Konami has only recently confirmed that the release of Silent Hill: Downpour has been moved into 2012.
The Silent Hill series has always managed to carve out a unique space for itself in a market flooded with too many games trying to do the same thing. The atmospheric and lonely locales scattered around the run-down town of Silent Hill always seem to inspire moments of self-reflection - an unusual emotion to experience when playing a video game.
Leading up to this year’s enormous gamescom videogame event in Cologne, Germany, Konami has announced the “first details” of its line-up of games scheduled to be at the show.
Does this mean there are still more games coming to the show? Exciting!
Is it fair to call Bethesda Softworks and Konami ‘boutique’ publishers?
While Konami may think of itself as one of the larger game companies, it does its best work with more specialised titles, such as the Pro Evolution Soccer, Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid franchises.
As for Bethesda Sofworks/Zenimax Media, it seems as though this particular publisher only involves itself with games of excessive quality or high interest value, rather than coating the world in a deluge of annualised sequels.
Regardless, both Bethesda Softworks and Konami put their absolute best foot forward at E3 2011 to compete with showings from THQ, Sony, Ubisoft and Microsoft, and these two publishers certainly made an enormous splash with their games and announcements.
Let’s take a look at the big ones:
Konami has today unleashed a Silent Hill news deluge to coincide with its showing of Silent Hill Downpour at E3 2011 this week.
Thanks to that showing, we’ve managed to collect together gameplay videos and brand new screenshots for the horror-filled third-person action game, but more than that we’ve received word that Konami intends to release something called ‘The Silent Hill HD Collection,’ as well as ‘Silent Hill: Book of Memories’ for Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld.
Silent Hill: Downpour is the eighth game in the series and is being developed by Czech-based studio Vatra Games. This means that the last three Silent Hill games have all had different developers, making it difficult for franchise holders (and publishers) Konami to ensure that each game is created with the same amount of dedication, care and craftmanship.
Sometimes it’s too easy.
Earlier this year, the eighth entry to the survival horror series, Silent Hill, was announced to be known as Silent Hill: Downpour… but this information didn’t emerge from officially official sources, but rather a preview of the title in Game Informer.
Still, we couldn’t unlearn this information once we heard about it, but just to make us feel a little more official about the whole thing, Konami has formally announced the existence of the game along with a few details and a veritable downpour of screenshots.
What? Why’re you making that face?
Within the pages of the latest edition of esteemed games magazine Game Informer lies new information on the next iteration of Konami’s long-running survival horror series, Silent Hill, including the game’s title.
Silent Hill: Downpour is its name, and instilling intense amounts of water-themed terror is its game.
Due for release later this year, and currently in development at Czech-based studio Vatra Games under the watchful eye of Konami, Silent Hill: Downpour sounds to be a return to the ‘good old days’ of the franchise, if details emerging from Game Informer are anything to go by, with new additions arriving to inject a bit of spice into this aging (and some might say, ailing) series.
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