Reinvented Blog

Release Date: 2008

Consoles: PS3, X360

Publisher: Konami

Why it will Rock: Silent Hill is back!

The official announcement of Silent Hill V named the protagonist as Alex Shepherd, a war veteran who returns home from an overseas tour of duty to find that his father, and later his younger brother, Joshua, have disappeared, and his mother has gone into catatonia (syndrome of psychic and motoric disturbances). Alex begins to search for his brother, leading him to Silent Hill after searching his hometown of Shepherd's Glen, where he will have to traverse real world areas covered in fog, and also the "Otherworld" version of the same maps (Metroid Prime 2: Echoes comes into my mind...). The game play will feature real time wounds that show up on both Alex and his enemies. New fighting techniques will be offered as way for Alex to deal with enemies, including grappling and evasive maneuvers. Enemies will have upgraded artificial intelligence, adding new ways to attack or avoid enemies. The game engine used allows all this, and also incorporates realistic physics. Some of the grossest enemies in the game include the nurses (the always kind nurses ) and a new androgynous creature called "Siam", as well as "Schism", a humanoid with a massive, bladed head split down the middle, and "Smog", an emaciated corpse covered in boils who spews poisonous gas. The developers are planning to create multiple endings based on the way players do things in the game. Acts of aggression, kindness and interactions with other people met in the game will impact how it ends. Will the UFO's ending return??? That was so weird...