Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Konami
EAN: 4012927030912
ESRB Age Rating: Adults Only
Label: Konami
Manufacturer: Konami
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 216 months
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 216 months
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Xbox
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: - Terryfying.....
Silent Hill has always been a cult faveorite in pretty much every gamers mind, in some way its always been pinned lovingly on a gamers thumb.
But the fourth game in the series is quite a diffrent fare.
The gameplay is superb for a SH game, with gritty, scary graphics, great controls and ugly flesh monsters all knocking the atmosphere up to 11, its scary, violent, and strangly sexy in places.
And while we're on the subject of atmosphere, SH4 has perfected it, in a way, you can see ... Read More

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Rating: - Good for fans, dissapointing for the rest.
I hadn't played a survival horror game since Resident Evil on the PS1 but the good reviews that this game was receiving made me decide to give it a go. Unfortunately, I was left disappointed. From the first five minutes of playing I found myself cursing the camera angles which reminded me of why I dropped the survival horror games in the first place. The left trigger allows you to bring the camera behind you giving you a view of what is ahead but having to do this repeatedly can be frustrating. The ... Read More

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Rating: - Lost the plot this time
Silent Hill 4 is the most ambitious of the series but it fails to deliver the same level of dread. This instalment sees a man inexplicably trapped in his apartment where doorways to locations in the infamous town begin appearing in different rooms, and he must explore each of them to discover why he is trapped.

What seems like a refreshing new direction for this excellent franchise of games only sends it descending into obscurity, losing most of the scares along the way. Whilst the ... Read More

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Rating: - S H: the room

In the considerable wake of Resident Evil 4 the arrival of another survival horror game is somewhat under-whelming. RE 4 was a revolution in a genre that was becoming increasingly outmoded, failing to take full advantage of the capabilities of the current generation of consoles. The recent Resident Evil Outbreak games demonstrate this amply. With tedious gameplay and graphics that are indistinguishable from those of its Playstation forebears they reek of a cash-in. It should come as no great ... Read More

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Rating: - Come On Eileen...
I had some major high hopes for the latest in the Silent Hill franchise, it sounded great, and after watching the truly chilling pre-title sequence to the game, I cracked up the surround sound, and dived in.. And overall I have to say that I was really disappointed.

Silent Hill 4 continues in effectively the same tradition as the previous installments. A third person action/adventure game using the same fixed angle cameras, grainy filtering, and a bizzarrely unsettling collection of characters ... Read More

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