Zack Kolinar

Silent Hill 3 - an amazing game

The Silent Hill series from Konami is renowned for two things: very oppressive atmosphere that keeps you always in tension, and strange, unpredictable story. Silent Hill 3 does not offer a great gameplay, but creates a harrowing world and requires you to come in it, and does it very well.

For starters, I will tell you what bothered me about this game, namely the camera does not make a good work and often disorients you. You have two options related to the camera: the movement of the character is connected with the camera, and the other, the movement is relative with the character's sight.

If you pass the camera and the control which requires a gamepad, that makes it more difficult than the keyboard, Silent Hill 3 has interesting things to offer. The heroine is interesting, a normal teenager, that we find in a fast food from a store. She goes to call her father and tells him that she comes home, but on the way she meets a so-called detective who tells some details about her birth. She does not want to talk to him and goes to the bathroom where she escapes and flees out the window. When Heather returns to the mall, things go crazy, hallways are empty, and suddenly she faces a demon. Fortunately, you will quickly find a gun. All this introduction is superb and that's because the cinematic sequences are integrated so well into the game. The graphics are so good that don't even notice when you play and when it's a film. Konami obviously wanted to create a cinematic atmosphere and succeeded.

In fact, this is what the game wants, atmosphere, no story or logic. Anyway logic has nothing to do with horror.

Throughout the game you will have some areas that are clean and then began to fill up with blood, shadows and lights flashing. Konami is aware that you what you don't see is scarier and therefor the producers leave your imagination to create your own game reality.

The battles are fairly rudimentary, the target is places automatically, a characteristic typical to consoles. The puzzles are as you prefer, at the beginning of the game you can choose from easy to medium and hard. But not the battles or puzzles, but the presentations are the charm of this game.

If you want to lose yourself in an intriguing world that gets under your skin, Silent Hill 3 is hard to beat.