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Still, the Best horror game *no spoilers*

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a game for the PS1 system. It's got underwhelming graphics considering todays standards, but its incredibly immersive, as good as the best horror movies or books, everything about the game oozes atmosphere and style.
The game play, especially the movement is a little clunky though the emphasis is not on fast paced action so that is never and issue. The objective of the game is to go through a "haunted" town looking for a missing little girl while slowly discovering the back story of the town of silent hill. The puzzles are interesting and logical, never too difficult or too weird, though the game will seem a little little railroaded and constrained (since some sections of the town are off limits at the beginning you will be following a set course throughout the game) this is due to the nature of the eerie and slowly unfolding story. overall a great experience, better than a horror movie anyhow!
Silent Hill 2 will later top this story wise and become the best game in the series, though this magic first experience will remain the most intense!

Very scary

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the scariest of all time. Fear perpetuates throughout the game at all times. And most of it is genuine fear, not just the cheap scares like something jumping out from behind a corner (but there are a few of those too). I can't play this game in the dark or alone, it messes me up.

Down the rabbit hole we go

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was a really fun videogame. Silent Hill is almost like a twisted version of Alice in Wonderland. Set with all kinds of twists and turns you'll certainly enjoy this game. Although beware, the gameplay as well as the outcome changes depending on the decisions that you make during the course of the game. So choose wisely. The part of the videogame that I found to be the most frustrating was the hospital. Even though I have never really played any of the other Silent Hill videogames except for Silent Hill Origins. I also highly recommend Silent Hill Origins.

An experience I will never forget.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a Brilliant game and one of the best games I have ever played. A master peace from start to end

still one of the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i am finally playing this game. I played SH2 when it first came out, skipped 3 and played 4 after i saw the movie. I went back and just beat 0rigins. I was able to track down the first three games for relatively cheap. and i must say, playing sh1 on ps3, is still creepy and scary. it might not be as polished the later entries, and definatly not as polished as the upcoming 5 still. if you can get your hands on this game, and like real scary movies and games. if i had to twist this into the movie world. and compare RE to SH. i would say RE is obviously more like Romero's Living Dead series, with a little X files thrown in. While SH with the music, mood and atmospheric setting wise its closer to psycho.

Overrated...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, after reading all of these crazy awesome reviews of this game, and being a huge fan of Silent Hill 2, I bought this game from here for $40. And boy, was I disappointed. Lets list the good and the bad

Pros:

Impressive graphics, considering it's a playstation 1 game

Great Music by Akira Yamaoka

Amazing Camera angles (especially during the opening run down the hallway type thing)

Fun to play

Good atmosphere.

Cons:
Not fun at all in the daytime, so you have to wait until night to enjoy it at it's fullest

The atmosphere is NOT backed up WHATSOEVER!! This was my biggest gripe about the game! Stuff like resident evil and dino crisis have less of a crazy atmosphere, but what atmosphere they do have is backed up by the sudden and unexpected appearance of enemies, and the extreme difficulty of killing the enemies. Plus, with a lack of ammo, you're usually panicking. Silent Hill has great atmosphere, but plenty enough ammo to kill the generally weak monsters that are found throughout the levels, and most of them are slow and don't do much damage to you, therefore they don't pose much of a threat. Silent Hill 2 had Pyramid Head, and at some points I actually was too scared to continue on with the game on the fear that he might show up and slaughter me. Silent Hill has absolutely nothing to back up this atmosphere, and if you can get past the disturbing look of things, and realise that there is nothing making the scary noises, you're just walking around a deserted area that has the lights out, some monsters, and creepy music. What's so scary about that? Nothing. And when there are an abundance of enemies, it's not scary, it's just annoying, because if you can't pick them off one by one then you're overwhelmed and you die.

Like I said above, absence of enemies makes the game far too easy, but too many enemies makes the game too hard.

They should have had your character have crashed on the outskirts of town and had you walk to town in the middle of the night. That would have been scarier, and better than just appearing in the town.

The alternate dimension is overused. This problem was fixed in silent hill 2 though, and was executed perfectly

After my list of the good and the bad, you tell me what you think. I wasn't scared playing this game (maybe made nervous a few times, but never terrified like I was playing the sequel). It's definately a good game, but terribly overrated, and you can tell it's their first effort at the genre.

In all, being the silent hill fan I am (I own the first 2 games and origins, have seen the movie(which sucked, btw), and plan on buying the third and fourth titles when I have the money) I'm glad I bought this game, but It's not as good as the hype leads you to believe.

Still crazy, after all these years...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There's something about this quiet little resort town that seems to draw all the darkness together into one place, all the madness from deep-seated nightmares into one name: Silent Hill. The name itself evokes visions of twisted creatures and primal fears come to life, and it's been this way for years, after four games, several comic series, and a feature film. But here is where it all started, the game that introduced us to the little town of Silent Hill.

It begins with a compelling hook -- Harry Mason is driving along a lonely road with his seven year-old daughter Cheryl, when he is driven from the road and crashes. When he regains conciousness, Cheryl is gone, and Harry is stuck in Silent Hill. The rest of the game becomes an increasingly desperate search for Harry's daughter, leading not only into the depths of the town and its many secrets, but also into his own past and into the depths of his sanity.

As Harry travels through the town he meets other characters - Cybil Bennett, a police officer also trapped in the town like him, Dahlia Gillespie, priestess of an ancient religion, Lisa Garland, a nurse haunted by something she has seen, and Alessa, a girl who seems to be at the center of the mystery of the town itself. He amasses weapons to fight the many creatures in the town, twisted creations of a demented mind, and finds objects to help him solve puzzles along the way. And as he progresses, he travels between worlds...from this world's dangers to the warped Otherworld of Silent Hill, where nothing seems to make sense but everything is connected.

Even playing Silent Hill today, in the time of hyper-realistic games, full-scale production on par with Hollywood, and high-definition graphics, the original Silent Hill still stands the test of time. It is challenging, and production values are high given the limitations of the time it was made. The original Playstation graphics may seem a little choppy by modern standards, but in a way this works for the game too, giving it a surreal quality as Harry's perspective shifts from one reality to another. There is a minimalistic approach to the look of the whole game that works for it rather than against it -- the old concept that the less you show, the greater the potential fear is. Voice acting is a little shaky, but this is more than made up for by the quality of mood-setting sound effects and music which create a constant (and ever-escalating) sense of dread.

In the world of survival-horror games, some go for the gore-fest and others for cheap thrills. Silent Hill stands apart, as a game that tells a compelling story and accompanies every moment of that story with a shot of pure, creeping fear. It's not the kind of game to make you feel queasy or get your heart pumping, but it evokes the feeling of shivers running up your spine like cold fingers and skin that doesn't seem to feel comfortable anymore on your bones.

There's a reason the very name of Silent Hill makes people quiver just a little. Take a look at where it all began and find out for yourself.

Anyone Know Where I Can Get This?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been looking for a copy of this game for a little while, without having to pay $50 to $100 for a game. They have taken it off Konami's online store but a while ago they had it listed as out of stock. I have played every Silent Hill game besides this one and they were all great. I would love to start from the begining and play them all again. Does anyone know where you can buy this at a reasonable price or even rent it?

Best Game EVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like survival horror games like resident evil, clock tower, and are thinking about trying the silent hill games DO IT!! You won't regret it I promise, you have a great storyline with alot of depth and alot of twists and turns along the way. Plus there's a great chill factor, DON'T PLAY THIS ALONE!

You're Harry Mason, a man on vacation with his daughter Cheryl on the way there's an accident and Harry wakes up to find his daughter missing as well as the rest of the people in the town and what's up with that fog anyway? In this game you are literally shouded in fog and darkness in the journey to get your daughter back, will you succeed?

Replayability-Four different endings to chose as your fate as you brave through Silent Hill

Incredible game. Brand new $20 on konamis website

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

To start off this game is insane. It gets into your head like no other form of entertainment. I haven't played this for about 2 years yet I still have dreams about it...not nightmares just crazy dreams. This game has incredible atmosphere and upon playing it you will forget about its dated graphics and be totally immersed in the story. That said, this isn't for the faint of heart, but its INCREDIBLE!. Anyways the people who are selling this game for $40+ dollars are ripping you off. Buy it new on Konamis website for $20...actually it might be $30, but still its way cheaper than what all these people on amazon are trying to sell it for...$70? *shakes head*

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