The town of Silent Hill West Virginia, is actually Centralia, Pennsylvania. In May 1962, the city ordered to have the local landfill burned in an attempt to clean up the waste. The fire spread through unsealed tunnels and openings that led to an abandoned coal mine.
Unfortunately, Konami didn't like the direction that the game was headed in and decided to disband Team Silent once and for all, shifting the development of the title to a western studio.
In this real world town, there is nothing left but a few dilapidated buildings and a road that slowly sinks into the ground. The American town has been awash with fumes and flames for 60 years. In 1962, a fire broke out in an abandoned coal mine and has burned unabated through the galleries ever since.
Konami is reviving the Silent Hill series—except Konami won't be developing any new games itself. During a (somewhat chaotic) hour-long presentation yesterday, Konami finally revealed to the world its plans for a revival of the Silent Hill franchise.
Although it is known as a scenic resort area, it is a cursed place where the town's former inhabitants were once driven away, brutal executions were once carried out, and a mysterious plague was once prevalent.
10 Silent Hill: Downpour
There are six possible endings to achieve in Silent Hill: Downpour. To get the best one, it is mandatory not only to have good karma and choose to help others when given the chance, but also to finish the game without killing a single enemy or monster, and sparing the character at the very end.
The town of Silent Hill is not actually filled with monsters. It is a waking nightmare, or dreamlike hallucination that only James can see. This is shown by each other character experiencing it this as their own personal psychosis, fueled by their own ego.
Silent Hill is set in the series' eponymous fictional American town. The series is heavily influenced by the literary genre of psychological horror, with its player characters being mostly "everymen".
All of the original 4 SH protags were able to visit and escape Silent Hill just fine in the best endings, so yeah.
Australia's strict video game classification regime claimed several high-profile game casualties during 2008. Shellshock 2: Blood Trails, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Dark Sector, F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin, and Fallout 3 were all refused the maximum MA15+ rating, effectively banning them from sale down under.
Lisa from P.T. is by far the most horrifying monster in the franchise, partly because there is nothing the player can do to stop her. P.T. is a non-combative game, so the player can only watch Lisa as she haunts them in order to progress the game.
Unfortunately, this game had a limited print because many gamers had already switched to PS3, and Shattered Memories sold quite poorly on PS2. Right now, you can expect to pay around $330 for a copy, and that price is only getting higher as Konami has expressed interest in making new Silent Hill games.
10 Silent Hill
As dismal and dark as Silent Hill may be, it does include a happy ending as one of the options.
Silent Hill 3 takes place 15 years after the original game, in which Harry Mason prevented a horrific god from being born into the world through Alessa — a young girl who was forcibly impregnated and then burned alive by her mother in ritual sacrifice.
You don't really have to, as the plot for each game is more or less self contained. There is a reference here or there, but nothing that will take you out of the games.
Harry collapses in sorrow over the loss of his daughter. Harry is then seen bleeding from his head, unconscious in his car, which suggests that everything that happened in Silent Hill was just a dream, conjured by the failing synapses of his dying brain.
Throughout the game, Pyramid Head is a tenacious antagonist who follows James through Silent Hill for an unknown reason. Unknown to James, Pyramid Head is a physical manifestation of his guilt over his wife Mary's death.
Based on the best-selling horror action game, Silent Hill stars Radha Mitchell (Man on Fire) as Rose, a desperate mother who takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment.
Pictures of her with Kojima have been circulating. Tokyo-based actor Fadile Waked seems to have confirmed the leaked Silent Hill images are legitimate. The images leaked online a few days ago and Konami has had them taken down, furthering the suspicion they were legitimate leaks.
The Real World is the "normal" plane of existence that most people inhabit in the Silent Hill series. Unlike the Fog World or Otherworld, the Real World is a place with presumably little to no paranormal activity.
Pyramid Head, also known as "Red Pyramid Thing" (赤い三角頭, Akai Sankakutō), "Red Pyramid" or Sankaku Atama (三角頭, lit. "Triangle Head"), is a character from the Silent Hill series, a survival horror video game series created by Japanese company Konami.
Silent Hill's Homecoming, Downpour, & Origins Are Among Its Least Scary Games. It might come as little surprise to most fans, but while these games all have their arguable merits, they're not developed by Team Silent, instead being worked on by studios Konami contracted after the company dissolved the team.
Five game endings are possible, depending on actions taken by the player, including one joke ending. Silent Hill received positive reviews from critics on its release and was commercially successful.
See below for the exact times and descriptions of the 7 jump scares in Silent Hill, which has a jump scare rating of 1.5.
Alessa wanted Rose to act as her new mother and had no intention of returning to the real world, so she trapped Rose in the place where she feels safe, where no one can ever take her mother from her again.