Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Konami
EAN: 4012927024881
ESRB Age Rating: Adults Only
Label: Konami
Manufacturer: Konami
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 216 months
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 216 months
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: PlayStation2
Publisher: Konami
Release Date: September 17, 2004
Studio: Konami

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Survival horror games don't get the recognition they deserve in the wider world. Whereas CGI effects have done nothing but make horror movies less and less scary, ironically video games, particularly the Silent Hill series, have been showing filmmakers just how it should be done for years.

Irritatingly though the original PS one title remains the best of the series with the last two PS2 titles being little more than hi-res rehashes. The Room manages to shake things up a bit though, ditching the radio and flashlight gimmicks and adding twice the normal amount of side characters and a more involved fighting system. There's also a number of completely invincible bad guys and a new Resident Evil style limited slot inventory system.

The room in question, as you're no doubt wondering, is in fact the toilet. Playing yet another everyman character you wake up from a rather disturbing dream to find out that you're locked inside your flat and the only way out is through a gateway to hell next to the privy. Which almost sounds like a BlackAdder joke, but is unlikely to have you laughing after your first trip.

Within your flat the game uses a first person view, with the series' more traditional third person viewpoint taking over when you go through the portal. A series of weird lens filters and excellent (i.e. very unpleasant) sound lends a real otherworldly feel to proceedings, so that when things do choose to go bump in the night at you, you end up being very scared indeed. --David Jenkins




Rating: - could have been so much better
As an avid fan of the Silent Hill series I decided to get this game. I wish I hadn't the game was a complete letdown, very repetitive and not the slightest bit scary. The idea of visiting different worlds was ok but to visit them and then having to revist all of them (minus the hospital world) was just lunacy and a bore.

This game could have been so much better in many ways and the gameplay could have been extended in many other ways too. The characters I felt weren't as developed as ... Read More

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Rating: - takes the game to a new level
total mayhem. scarier than the others. a new style of gameplay where you get to see alot more creepy horrors than just hear them. silent hill 4 provides a more unsettling story than the rest and pretty much sums up the links between each silent hill title. the storyline in this title is actually quite sick and very very strange. something that isnt typical in horror games or movies. the best part of the game is when it reaches night time and your apartment starts to maninfest some very strange sounds ... Read More

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Rating: - A SURREAL GAME
Silent Hill 4: The Room is the most unusual entry in a most unusual video game franchise. While earlier installments in the series have focused on stories designed to evoke spine- chilling horror, this fourth chapter in the saga causes much deeper feelings of anxiety and unease. I remember being more traditionally scared playing Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, but the underlying, more psychological sensation of existential dread I felt playing this game was something altogether new.

The Silent ... Read More

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Rating: - repetitive
this game taints the good name that is silent hill!!!
there is very little to actually do with or in silnt hill....yes it looks like a silent hill game(therfore amazing...hence the 2 stars...the other is for sounding like a silent hill game)....sounds ;like a silent hill game...nice and atmospheric and creepy but it plays terribly
the beasties are very annoying...especially the ghosts that dont die...considering the amount of times you have to revisit areas it makes the game slow,frustrating and ... Read More

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Rating: - This is not a Silent Hill game
First lets get things straight by giving this game its original title Room 342.

Room 342 was never intended to be a Silent Hill game. It was supposed to be a stand alone game with a more action orientated theme. As a standalone game it would have deserved 3 stars as it is not a truly awful game, merely an average one.

However, when Konami realised that they had a hit on their hands with the Silent Hill series they reconditioned Room 342 with small Silent Hill references to get a game ... Read More

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