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Silent Hill: Homecoming

Also known as: Silent Hill V, Silent Hill 5

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The 133 Locked Doors of Silent Hill: Homecoming

VIDEO: We show you what’s really scary from the latest survival-horror

Words: Shane Patterson, GamesRadar US

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The new adventures of Silent Hill - subtitled Homecoming - have stuck very close to the winning formula of creepy dilapidated buildings, grotesque monsters, uncomfortable storyline, excellent music and a boatload of locked doors. Why plop us down in a semi-open world and then lock every door in the environment with the exception of a few? Doing just that proves Silent Hill is aggravatingly linear, only you have to figure that out for yourself.

Even Official Xbox Magazine editor-in-chief Francesca Reyes is in agreement with her review, “[From its]…wild-goose chase through gray, same-y hallways filled with useless, placebo doorways to a story that takes much too long…” it’s much too clear that Silent Hill is in desperate need of a franchise reboot. Enough words: gaze below at the pain you have yet to experience. Spoiler warning: these doors represent the first third of the game. Be careful if you don’t want the environments ruined for you.

Above: It looks like the lock is broken. I can’t open it. It looks like the lock is broken. I can’t open it. It looks like the lock is broken. I can’t open it

Oct 9, 2008

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kingboruc - 1 month 9 days ago

1ST, Lot of locked doors

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Spooty_The_GameGuru - 1 month 9 days ago

In before the. . . um. . . locked. . . doors..

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lava_lamp - 1 month 9 days ago

yep, I've already experienced the locked doors, how many locks are broken in a freaking hospital

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samboy218 - 1 month 9 days ago

lol that a lot of locked doors

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samboy218 - 1 month 9 days ago

lol that a lot of locked doors

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blocpartier - 1 month 9 days ago

#66 should have said "This gate is padlocked but waist high."

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Corsair89 - 1 month 9 days ago

I guess that there's a monster in Silent Hill who's only job is to go around and break locks. I still enjoy the game,although Silent Hill 2 is way better.

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SPANKY2817 - 1 month 9 days ago

Yeah, i'm pretty pissed about the MOJORITY of ALL the DOORS are LOCKED! They make it to were all are unlocked but every room has a GRUSOME SURPRISE for u.

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NelosAngelos - 1 month 9 days ago

Well that's just maddeningly unhelpful.

Its a wood door that's maybe what, four inches thick? And you just so happen to have an axe in your hand. What's that? Break the "wooden" door down with a tool that is made for cutting through wood? That's just crazy talk.

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Uncle_Soaky - 1 month 9 days ago

WHAT!?! I thought I heard that the new game won't have any of that locked door bullshit! Crap.

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eye of sith - 1 month 9 days ago

for 50 through 60 It looks like the gate is padlocked. even though i have a shotgun i cant break that padlock

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LRossO - 1 month 9 days ago

i thought they busted the "shooting padlocks myth" on mythbusters....

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Rasy2kG - 1 month 9 days ago

this makes me not want to play Silent Hill: Homecoming now

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Da_Wetman - 1 month 9 days ago

it's giving me a serious case of lock-dooritis

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HoraceQS - 1 month 8 days ago

This is part of Silent Hill. If it didn't bother you in previous installments it wont bother you here.

Remember that Silent Hill operates on dream logic and the locked doors add to the tension when you're running away from monsters. "Which door is safe to open? If I pick the wrong one it will catch up to me." etc.

I wouldn't say that Silent Hill needs a reboot of any kind. Removing the Silent Hill elements like difficult combat and locked doors will just make it more like Resident Evil, and that's a path the series has walked too far down already.

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Nebuchadnezzer - 1 month 8 days ago

Horace pretty much nails it on the head on why there's such an abundance of locked doors. Homecoming has done enough of a change to make it fresh while not alienating the long-time fans of this series. Locked doors just happen to be one of them.

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