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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $17.36
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Manufacturer: Konami
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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Konami
EAN: 0083717300311
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Feature: A new Silent Hill adventure, where terror comes to your room
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Label: Konami
Manufacturer: Konami
Model: XBKONA 083717300311
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Xbox
Publisher: Konami
Release Date: 2004-09-07
Studio: Konami
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A new Silent Hill adventure, where terror comes to your room
Horrific new monsters, including spirits that can attack through walls
Expansive areas to explore, including a forest, prison, and hotel
A cast of mysterious new characters
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Silent Hill 4 Xbox
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Sadly, the X-Box port does little to make the experience any better than it was on the PS2
Comment: I remember when Silent Hill 2 got an X-Box port as Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams and I'll tell you right now, I was undeniably happy about it . Not only did I lack a PS2 at the time, but I had played a copy of the PS2 original after playing the X-Box port of Silent Hill 2 and found that the X-Box port was aesthetically better than the original while the game on either system was and still is excellent.
Unfortunately, that was with Silent Hill 2, only. Silent Hill 4 does little to make itself stand out as an X-Box port and does very little to improve on its aesthetics, something that I feel it was in dire need of along with more competent writers to execute the story in something other than a dull, drab, boring, anti-climactic tone with most of the main characters, heroic or not, featuring the depth of a shoe string, boring, hackneyed atmospherics and shoddy game design choices.
The only difference between the PlayStation 2 and X-Box version is that the X-Box version forces you to save games on the X-Box Hard Disk; you can't save copies of Silent Hill 4 on the portable Memory Units and you can't copy ANY of the saves you make. Yeah, not only does the game try to bore you to death with its apathy and lack of immersion, but it also keeps you from storing save games on something other than the console's hard drive. I guess the only plus side is that the save game image on the X-Box has The Eye of Watchfulness rather than one of the Toadstool monsters writhing around in front of a bright pink background.
That's the only change. It's graphically the same, the minimalist real-time menu system works the same, the sounds are all laughable and pathetic, there's no other character you can play as (something I would've payed good money to do just to spend fifteen minutes playing as someone other than a living piece of drywall in a nappy wig and blue jeans), no different lighting effects. Just a save-game nit-pick.
You're still playing the same boring game trying to pass as horrific when you have to deal with idiotic invincible enemies such as ghosts, Ringu rip-offs, rolling wheelchairs and a gun totting hippy in a trench coat trying to come off as a serial killer. You're still cycling through five different drab, well lit levels that takes the effects of 'subtle atmospherics' and drives them so hard and heavy into the game it's difficult to say your even having fun much less getting terrified, you're still playing as some mutt-faced, emotionless drone who wiggles his butt every time he arms himself and strafes around an enemy letting him mumble ineffective and awkward dialogue and grope any and all blood encrusted women he stumbles across who just so happen to be more underdressed and sexy than the average stripper, you still only get a pocketful of firearms that do little to keep the enemies down, you're still reading memos written by idiots who forsake continuity and factual errors for the sake of sounding scary in that cheesy, JC haunted house kind of way, you're still thumbing your way through a game that hardly even tries to be dramatic or immersive until the last three minutes before the final boss fight and you've still got endings and replay value about as pointless as a pair of scissors without a screw.
The game is still terrible in its own broken right. If anything, I can recommend you get the X-Box version of this game for two reasons:
A) because you don't own a PlayStation 2
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B) Because a cheap game deserves a cheap price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A let down for fans.
Comment: I love Silent Hill. Happiness was the day a new Silent Hill game came out and I could run to the game store after work to get it. I still get that creeped out feeling when I play Silent Hill 2 or 3 in the dark. If a game makes it hard to fall asleep, it's a good scary game.
Silent Hill 4? There are some fun connections to the other games if you look hard enough. It turns out the landlord of your building in 4 is Mary's father (your wife in Silent Hill 2). But all the connections are little things like that. However that's not enough to make it a bad game.
A bad game is a game that makes you do the same levels over and over again. A bad game has a shaky plotline and endings that don't make it worth it to play over and over again. A bad game takes the scariest level in it's previous games (the hospital level. Every Silent Hill game has one and they're all pretty damn scary) and makes you laugh instead of fear. THE NURSES BURP WHEN YOU HIT THEM WITH A PIPE! NO JOKE! It sounds like they drank a bottle of soda before they decided to try and kill you. It's not scary, it's not even that funny, it's kind of sad.
Other than that, the game has a decent soundtrack, your room can get quite scary if you let it, and although none of the characters are all that likeable, I ended up growing attatched to Cynthia.
If you're a Silent Hill fan, you should play it just to play it. If you're not you might still enjoy it because it's quite different then the rest of them. It just didn't compare to the other three.
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Summary: unique and engaging but not quite achieved
Comment: The room entales events before silent hill 2 i believe. The 1st person aspect has great, but needs more solid ground. The story behaves like it should and ties up loose ends about the killings fetured in the second silent hill. I'm not to fond of this one having ghosts that can't be killed or dispelled, which drops the replay value on this one. Controls handle well and the swing gauge is a great feature. this one seems short also.
if they make another, why not incorporate the camera from resident evil 4 and keep the swing meter that may increase a stronger sense of emergency, while allowing precise aiming control of your guns. no one ever said james succeeded or failed. I think he needs to finish what he started.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your money!
Comment: [...]
Being an avid fan of the survival horror genre, I naturally bought this title. I ended up throwing it out a few days later. The only thing I really liked about the game was its first-person perspective.
You begin in an eerie, locked apartment room. Soon you discover what is essentially a portal to a haunted subway system in the bathroom. Sounds engaging, right? It is, thus far. Upon entering, the first thing I noticed here were the bothersome ghosts. You can attack them only to discover that they, being ghosts, cannot be "killed," thus you're stuck with them, following you, trying to suck the life out of your every other second. After circumventing these, I decended into the main subway area only to encounter more. Now they were hampering my mobility. Whenever I tried to pass or traverse any other area of the subway, I encountered them. It was annoying. At least allow me to investigate my surroundings! I played for about 20 minutes longer like this before I shut off my PS2 and took out the game. This is the kind of game that, because of it's difficulty level, makes you frustrated enough to stop playing it.
If you want to enjoy the SH series, I recommended trying to find SH2 (I found it used at Blockbuster) or even SH3. As for survival horror, I highly recommend Fatal Frame 2 (there's also a FF3 coming out 11/05) or Resident Evil 4.
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Summary: Silent Hill?
Comment: I am a tremendous Survival Fan, I own even the lesser known titles such as Over Blood and the Ring. Silent Hill is one of my all time favorites, I was hooked from the first title. Silent Hill has a surreal and over all creepy atmosphere to it. There is often darkness, fog and decay in their stories. I have loved 1, 2 and 3. I had my hopes pretty high for Silent Hill 4. Unfortunately those hopes were wasted.
This game would have been fun if it was apart of the Silent Hill Franchise, but the moment they slapped that label on that game they basically rose the bar too high. Silent Hill 4 is dull and just not very interesting. It had some nice effects, some interesting characters and that is about it. The Monsters aren't even remotely interesting in this installment. They had evil monkeys for god sake!
The Ghost were kind of nice, but this isn't Silent Hill. It wasn't even very difficult but I made it nearly to the end, lost interest just out of pure and utter boredom and stopped for months before wanting to finish. I never did that with any other Silent Hill title. This was a most unfortunate sequal.
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