Silent Hill Homecoming

buckieburd · 16-06-2009 4:18pm #1

Anyone have this? Saw it in Game yesterday and was sooo close to buying it.
Is it any good? Your thoughts and opinions please ( :

koneko · 16-06-2009 7:00pm

Silent Hill 2 is one of my favourite games of all time, love the others too, so I was a bit apprehensive about this game and didn't buy it until months after release.

Personally, I quite enjoyed it, it's better than I expected it would be, but I know others who absolutely hate the game too. I wouldn't pay full price for it, it has limited replay value (just getting the different endings, really).

evad_lhorg · 16-06-2009 7:24pm

I loved 2 and 3. 4 not so much. I have this and have not even tried it due to lack of time but everyone who I have talked to who has played it says that if you like the others you will like this too.

koneko · 16-06-2009 7:38pm

Yeah, 4 is... not great. It's better than 4 IMO.

buckieburd · 18-06-2009 4:17pm

Cheers folk think I will give it a bash!

DARK-KNIGHT · 18-06-2009 8:47pm

hi, i really dont know why i didnt like this game!!

maybe i didnt give it long enough to get into it! although i never played any of the other silent hills!

any thoughts?

chrislad · 18-06-2009 9:15pm

It's not bad. I wouldn't buy it though. Rent it for a week in XtraVision. Shouldn't take you much longer than that to finish it.

theUbiq · 09-07-2009 5:53pm

It's really not that good!

buckieburd · 10-07-2009 4:25pm

theUbiq wrote: »

It's really not that good!

Feck it I just bought it yesterday

calex71 · 10-07-2009 5:24pm

Ah i enjoyed it for what it was , far from 1 or 2 but definately better than 4

10-07-2009 8:48pm

I so want Homecoming to be good. Let me know how you get on OP.

Happy memories of SH 1 and 2.

Survival Horror seems to be a genre in decline though. Having said that, I got some enjoyment out of ALone in the Dark, despite the poor reviews.

craze7 · 11-07-2009 6:25pm

I love all of the Silent Hill games but this one was avarage at best, no tension, no suspense and crap puzzles. Plus the multiple endings were horrible! UFO ending from Silent Hill 2 was the business!

P.s the new one on the Wii looks decent tho!

EasyBoy1974 · 15-07-2009 10:25am

Just picked this up and I have to say, for me, this is easily the most derivative of the series. The starting conceit is lifted wholesale from SH3 … the game is even reduced to things flying out at you in narrow dark corridors – á la Doom 3 – a trick which SH2 never had to rely on. SH2 had the psychological thing going on – it never needed cheap shocks … Anyway, I’m disappointed, but I’ll play to the end (a couple of times at least), but only because I have so much love for SH2 …

RossFixxxed · 20-07-2009 3:37pm

I lost all the uncomfortable subtexts and weirdness that made it creepy in favouor of... dark corridoor SOMETHING JUMPS OUT!! I wasn't too impressed.

You can't invert the controls?! That drove me mad, every time I try to look up at a monster he stares at the £!@#ing floor!

buckieburd · 21-07-2009 3:11pm

Have been getting stuck into it this week, not bad but not on a par with the others in the frachise. The Needlers are a pain in the ass! Have used up all my amo on 2 of them ) :

Otacon · 21-07-2009 3:24pm

ND 1978 wrote: »

Survival Horror seems to be a genre in decline though. Having said that, I got some enjoyment out of ALone in the Dark, despite the poor reviews.

If you haven't already, give Dead Space a go. Best use of sound in a game I have ever come across.

As for Homecoming, isn't it made by the guys who did Origins on the PSP? That was also pretty passable.

Silent Hill Homecoming

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