It's finally happening: Silent Hill, Konami's cinematic psychological horror series, is being made into a movie. Only time will tell if the big-screen adaptation, penned by Roger Avary (Glitterati, True Romance) and directed by Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Crying Freeman ), will be a crass tie-in or the first smart video game movie, but in the meantime its teaser trailer hits most of the right notes while showing us almost nothing of the movie itself.
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In a candid interview with gamesradar.com, the chief designer of Silent Hill 4: The Room has admitted that the game can be a "pain in the ass" and has acknowledged that the horror sequel has met with a poor response from Japanese gamers.Discussing the game's structure - which forces players to continually return to The Room of the game's title - Masashi Tsuboyama, of Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, said: "Since it's the fourth title, we wanted to have a major difference to past games. We
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It's all gone brown and grainy in the latest survival-horror excursion to unmentionable dimensions via Silent Hill 4: The Room. While fronted as the ultimate scary experience (sorry, Doom 3 owns that one that), there's no doubting the creepy, disturbing nature of the series. In the game you will travel between the real world of main man Henry Townesend and an haunted alternative world. When in the real world, the game is viewed from the new
Hot on the heels of the we recently ran, we have these new shots of Konami's scare-fest. While SH4 was clearly never going to be a laugh-a-minute cutesy romp, it appears to ramp up the grotesque factor every time we see something new of it.There's plenty of nasty stuff here to be getting your head around, not least the mutated dripping-in-flesh ladies bent on eating your face. However, we have to say that, while we understand Konami's choice in going for a grainy look to add to the atmosphere,
Konami have released the first ever screenshots and details of Silent Hill 4: The Room, the latest instalment of the chilling survival-horror series.The game, which is due to be released for PS2 and Xbox in the autumn, features a new lead character called Henry Townshend who, it says here, "finds himself trapped in his own cursed apartment." After a week, he realises his only way out is by investigating mysterious portals that lead to alternate worlds - packed, of course, with some truly
