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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.
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.
When the the next Silent Hill game (tentatively entitled ‘Silent Hill 8’) releases on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next year, the psychological horror action title is set to be true to the franchise, as well as fans of the long-running series, but will still look different and deliver a different story from other Silent Hill games we’ve seen in the past.
This according to developers Devin Shatsky and Tomm Hulett who, along with design director Brian Gomez, are working on Silent Hill 8 alongside development studio Vatra Games, out of Brno in the Czech Republic.
The first ever trailer for Konami’s next Silent Hill game was revealed at the publisher’s recent E3 2010 press event, and it sure is creepy.
Currently in development at Czech studio Vatra Games, this next Silent Hill looks set to follow the path of the recent Silent Hill: Homecoming as far as exploration and action is concerned, but with the franchise’s signature horror and eeriness included in healthy measures.
See for yourself in the debut trailer:
It’s been revealed that the new, upcoming and recently unveiled Xbox 360 and PS3 Silent Hill game is currently in development at Czech studio, Vatra Games.
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