Silent Hill Origins

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The renowned Silent Hill survival horror series makes its handheld gaming debut with a brand new adventure that reveals many of the series' most hallowed secrets. Assuming the role of a lone truck Driver, Travis Grady, trapped in Silent Hill while making a routine delivery, you must escape the city's horrific inhabitants and confront the strange hallucinations that have haunted him since childhood. Taking full advantage of the PSP system's graphics, sound, and portability, Silent Hill Origins sets a new standard in handheld gaming terror.
The PlayStation 2 version offers a visually enhanced version of the PSP game, with a host of elements that are new to the franchise and provide the player with an enhanced sensation of isolation. While the game retains the cinematic experience of the previous games, it also has an intuitive Cineractive System that allows you to face down horrifying monsters while the control scheme changes intuitively for each situation. You also have an enhanced camera system that actively tracks Travis, while fans of the series will revel in Silent Hill Origins' original soundtrack by series composer Akira Yamaoka. Encounter horrific new monsters never before seen in Silent Hill Original soundtrack by famed series composer Akira Yamaoka

• A dark story that explores the events prior to the original Silent Hill
• enhanced camera system to elevate sense of fear and horror
• updated control for more fluid combat and detailed exploration
• horrific new creatures and challenging puzzles
• Original soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka

Customer Reviews

Reviewed on 2008-07-11 Excellent Considering that this game came over from PSP to the PS2 it is a brilliant achievement of complete creepiness. The incorporation of the the mirrors which flip you between Normal World and Evil World is excellent. I physically felt dread as I touched that mirror in anticipation of Evil World. So dark that it is sometimes difficult to see, the strained eyes are worth it. I vastly prefer playing without the visual noise filter (which you can only turn off after beating the game). If you are a fan of these games, I consider this a must.

Reviewed on 2008-07-09 Silent Hill, the best in survival horror If you are a Silent Hill series fan, you shouldn't miss this title. This is a great chance to play it if you don't have the PSP version.

Reviewed on 2008-06-21 My Silent Hill Origins Review I would like to start by saying I have been a huge fan of this series since the first game in the late 90s for the Play Station. However with each new game they release I always feel a little more let down in some ways. This game was originally realeased for the PSP; the problem with this is that the PSP is a gamble, and a large number of gammers, some being former fans of the Silent Hill series hated the PSP. So they decided later that they would rerelease this title for the Playstation 2. When I first heard about this I was pretty hyped up about it. When I first saw it in stores, I bought it without a second thought. It didn't take me too long to find something very screwed up about this game. Simply put; SHADOWS... They screwed up the the shadow graphics very badly... When you shine your flashlight on an object, you get a strange jig-saw pattern that is suppost to be the objects shadow, and it's distracting and annoying. Next to that, the game is too freaking dark, and I don't mean that in a good way, I mean you can't see any further than a couple feet away from your character, even with the flashlight on. Because of this it becomes difficult to avoid enemies that are too close to you, and you may often miss important items that you run past unless you pay very close attention. The darkness facter in this game seems more geared towards eye-strain than trying to increase the fear-factor of the game as a whole. Also it seems that since this was originally a PSP game, they got pretty simple with the level design sometimes, a lot of rooms in this game there were absolutely no need for... Very often you will open a door to an empty room with absolutely nothing in it... No monsters... No items... Not even a picture on a wall... Just an empty room... How exciting. And lets not forget the glitches with the inventory system. In the firearms menu for example, as soon as you change or reload a weapon, the picture of the weapon you are toying with will change to the next weapon to it... Why is it that your handgun suddenly turns into your shotgun? Overall I did enjoy this game and I loved many of the ideas behind it. I loved the new combat system. I found the temporary melee weapons interesting, as well as a little annoying sometimes. I loved the new monsters they introduced. And most of all, I loved the fact that this game was a prelude to the first game, I enjoyed learning more about the story history behind what caused the first games' story to be. This game had a lot of promise, but I just felt let down because it feels like the makers didn't care enough to test play it a few times before releasing it again. There are just too many glitches and errors that I felt that if they would have taken a little time to test it first that they may have been able to fix them before releasing the game.

Reviewed on 2008-05-31 Now we can finally see how the madness began... Well what can I say? I am a huge fan of the Silent Hill series. This is a great and worthy addition to any fan's collection. The classic atmosphere is intact with a few new twists in the gameplay. There are plenty of things to un-lock and lots of items and weapons to track down through the game. The creature design is great and its just so awesome to re-visit some of the areas from the original game and there are some excellent new locales as well. If you are a fan of the series and you don't have a PSP, then please do yourself a favor and grab this one right now! I would have given it five stars but my only gripe is that the game should have been a little longer but there is alot of replay value to make up for it. Have fun and try not to get lost in the fog!

Reviewed on 2008-05-27 Creepy! Scary! Horrorific! Well-done, and well-fun. I was scared to the end. A very scary game. Nothing like it. I've not played the prequels, but very scary.

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