The Silent Hill Collection (PS2)

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Access to the various environments within the games' worlds is limited, and progression through a particular area or building generally entails finding the relevant keys, which are sometimes obtained after solving a puzzle; puzzles often take the form of riddles and sometimes consist of gathering various items to help solve them. Some critics praised it as a general improvement over the originals, [2] [5] [27] while others expressed more mixed feelings about it. The game’s contrast has been altered to make everythingunnecessarilydarker, while its claustrophobic fog effects have been removed almost entirely. With Silent Hill HD Collection, I was hoping to spend my review waxing nostalgic about two of my favorite games of all time. In Silent Hill 2, the audio randomly skips in outdoors environments, and both games struggle to keep the sound consistent whenever a character uses a bladed weapon — the Great Knife in Silent Hill 2 and the katana in Silent Hill 3.

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In the case of the PS3, it's a rare example of an HD remaster that feels worse to play than the original. Though not so necessary on the PS2, it did mean the developers wouldn’t have to create environments with significant draw distances. It's more than a little disappointing when directly compared with Bluepoint's work on the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, where both MGS2 and its sequel flowed smoothly at 60 frames per second with multi-sampling anti-aliasing adding greatly to the quality of the overall presentation.

As James reaches the outskirts of the town, he finds that the road is blocked, and parks at an abandoned restroom.

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Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. As well as very shitty PC ports even though we can consider ourselves lucky to have them anyway as we will see. It boggles the mind how the PS3 version's hard-drive-induced frame-rate drops, along with sections of out-of-sync audio, could have made their way into the final game in the first place. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Although the game was initially revealed as a PlayStation 3 (PS3) exclusive, Konami later added an Xbox 360 port that would also be published on the same day as the PS3 release.Incomplete, glitchy, and visually degraded, Silent Hill HD Collection is Konami’s greatest insult to the series. Also new is the ability to change the standard "survival horror" (character-dependent) controls into the more widespread, 3D (camera-dependent) navigation.

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You can find plenty of ROMs on the internet without going to shady places like some pirate ports or even paid places. I would have loved to mention the perverse body horror that snakes its way throughout Silent Hill 3‘s eldritch world. The player navigates James around the town of Silent Hill and collects weapons, health-restoring items, and objects needed to solve puzzles in an unlimited inventory. The development team had to work with incomplete source code provided by Konami, as the published source code had not been archived. On the bright side, it just covers the interest in the IP, especially in the games from the Team Silent era.

Because the games kept the original animations, the voice actors had to sync their vocal performance with the lip motions done by the previous voice actors. James decides to honor the letter's request, wondering if this is a sick joke or if there is more to this. Complaints have been levelled at Konami that the development studio tasked with carrying out this HD remaster doesn't have that much experience with high-profile Xbox 360 and PS3 projects, and there's certainly a feeling that the power of the current-gen platforms isn't being tapped that much here: the notion of PS2-era games requiring a 4GB mandatory install on Sony's current console rings alarm bells, and when compared to the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection in terms of frame-rate and image quality, the technical inadequacies of these Silent Hill ports are swiftly brought sharply into focus. Keep in mind that you need a modified or PAL console if you plan to play those games on real hardware. Aside from the traditional third-person-view, there is now a first-person mode, which is used to control Henry when he is in his apartment.