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Made me queasy ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 25
Date: September 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game made me queasy. Not from the gore and heart-punding fear. Simply this game induced the most severe motion sickness I've ever experienced on the PS2. This game is so dark... that is to say, you can hardly see anything on the screen, that you get headaches from squinting and straining your eyes (even on the highest brightness setting). This darkness is, I guess, supposed to be creepy, but it simply fails for the same reason as the previous installments. Where in the previous episodes the screen was constantly clouded with way too much fog, this game's pitch black surroundings are just frustrating. Combine that with clumsy controls and a constant need to strain your eyes to see and viola! You get another miserable installment of Silent Hill.

As far as the monsters, well, there's a lot of dogs wrapped up in bandages... which makes sense since without any light they're likely to hurt themselves by running into things repeatedly... which is what the main character does BTW. Not very scary... it simply invoked the image of my dog after being spayed.

The supposed real meanie is a giant bloody sock puppet, that moves in a jerky fashion. Not scary.

All in all, the designers in Silent Hill rely on the idea that what the player doesn't see is far scarier than what he does.... it's sort of a Hitchcock device... however, when you do catch a glimpse of anything it's either silly or frustrating.

At best, this game is a rental folks.

Silent Hill 3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 21
Date: November 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What a dissapointment. Before purchasing this game I had gone through all the reviews I could find and determined, from them, that this game must be fantastic. I had played the first Silent Hill game, though not the second as I was low on monetary funds when it was released and had eventually forgotten about it completely. Perhaps if I had played the second I would've known better than to bother wasting my money on this game. The first Silent Hill was interesting, the lack of any explanation enthralled me as did the atmoshpere. This game however, did nothing but laugh at me for buying it.

Survival Horror? It seems more like Catholic Horror to me. Why does it seem that whenever someone realizes that there are huge flaws in their religous upbrining they must write a book, or make a game from the building angst? I, personally, am not afraid of God, thus the entire "plotline" (if it should even be called that)was wasted on me. The atmosphere was good at first, but progressively worsened throughout the game, as it was essentially the exact same thing in every level. The lack of jump factor, while it seemed like a good idea, was terribly done. Instead of removing any excessive amounts of jump factor from the game, it was removed completely, which took away a lot from the game. It didn't have to be an overkill, but when, NOTHING jumps out to get you in the entire game, some of the atmosphere seems to be lost.

Some of the other reviews I had read made mention that supposedly this game was "light on monsters". Quite the contrary. Apparently, instead of spreading the monsters throughout an area the developers though it better to cram them all in one room to mill about making freakishly amusing noises and surrounding your character as so they can all smash you to death, another flaw in the yet to be mentioned but horribly maimed battle syestem. While the monsters looked interesting the first few times, the effect wore off quickly until some of the models actually became annoying.

I feel I have to touch upon the battle system now. The controls of this system were simple enough, though worked maybe half the time. The game designers seemed to feel that you should only use certain weapons on certain creatures. Trying to use a gun on something that crawls on the floor beneath your knee level? Too Bad, haha! Your bullets will all just go into the wall forcing you to attempt to position yourself correctly, wasting all your ammo before switching to a weapon equally as hard to hit the beastie with. So it seemed at least. If it was on the floor, good luck to you in killing it, especially if there's more than one. The only part of the battle system that seemed to make the game harder, wasn't the number of creatures, but simply the controlls.

The last thing to be touched upon is the character herself, Heather. According to the Konami site for SH3 Heather is a surprising 21 years of age. This is also discovered if the math of passed years between events remembered in the game is done. Does anyone know a 21 year old girl who speaks to her father in a manner that would imply she is, at the oldest, 15? Her mannerisms are very much unlike anyone even old enough to drive. Perhaps in Japan she is smart an mature for her age, but it seems the only thing that frightens me about this game, is that there could be people such as Heather, out and about right now, and that I may, one day, be forced to communicate with them. One would think that a character with her supposed role in the universe might be perhaps, slightly intellegent, as opposed to not at all. I am honestly disturbed that this is what a 21 year old woman is portrayed as, and that perhaps, she is the norm. At least she is wearing clothes though, which seems to be almost too much to ask in most games nowadays.

the gameplay is scary

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: April 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game not having played any other silent hill, but if they are anything like this game, thank god. This game is horrid. The controls are terrible, the combat is horrible, the main character is weak and embaressing. The story, it was so great that I lost interest in 20 minutes. All in all the only scary thing in this game is the game itself.

poor controls - too bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: May 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm not sure if I would have liked the game or not - the controls were so poorly implemented, that I quit the game after an hour of extreme frustration. I've been playing first-person and third-person games since Doom 1 days, using a PC. The basic mouse/keyboard control has long been perfected, but the game designers just don't get it. I routinely purchase a good made-for-pc first/third person game and _start off_ on the hardest level and enjoy the game immensely (Deus Ex I and II, all the unreal games, all the doom/hexen/heretic versions, all the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series, Halo, etc, etc.) These games all have one thing in common: a GOOD adjustable interface. This game simply does not -- I tried various combinations/settings, but it's goofy indirect interface does not work for me. I just wish _someone_ had told me _before_ I WASTED $30 on it. I'll be adding KONAMI to my list of "AVOID THESE" ....

doesn't stand test of time - too linear

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 26
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game after seeing the new Silent Hill movie which I was quite surprised by. Not a bad horror film. So I was inspired to revisit the game title. I did a bit of research and found Silent Hill 3 was rated the highest by fans so I chose that one. When I started playing it I was pretty disappointed. It is an old game so I have to keep that in mind, but I don't evn think I'd have liked it when it first was released. The story is utterly linear - you can't deviate from the one and only possible path. You can only interact with predetermined items. If there's a small pile of cardboard bloacking your way, you can't just climb over it, it's a dead end. Super frustrating. There are only a few types of monsters and their graphics are terrible. You just end up going in circles. Some cool horror cut scenes but just not a fun game to play. Don't bother!

jon

STOP REVIEWING GAMES BEFORE THEY COME OUT!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 59
Date: January 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I gave it one star because all silent hill games that came out before deserved one star, and people are giving this game a good hype before it even comes out. (like they did with part 2, which was extremely boring by the way)

Hahahahahahha

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: October 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The most satisfaction you'll get out of this game is unwrapping the cellophane and relishing in the thought that you are about to undergo an experience that may change your sanity forever! After that it's pretty much all downhill from there. Here is the short list of reasons.

1) Just like Resident Evil, it's pretty much the same thing over and over again. The winning formula is applied plus 25% more action and weapons. But where Resident Evil actually gets bigger, better, and stronger with each sequel, Silent Hill just goes further and further down the toilet.

2) Monsters are not monsters. They are more like the monsters that get cast for the pilot of a promising new game and then get dumped once the producer says, "okay, I'll shell out some money for this project but you better get us some new monsters."

3) Voice acting is actually more annoying, more terrible, and more pointless than in the original PSX Resident Evil! Can you believe it? Yes, someone actually beat a record I thought Capcom could never lose!

4) The most unforgiveably shallow part of this game is its story. I don't know about the rest of you, but you'd have to be a pervert, or a catholic priest, to think that the idea of a girl giving birth to some unholy deity is a good concept for a video game. Shame on you Father Yamaoko!

But all is not bad because after you beat the game and unlock all the secret weapons you can at least go around and kick butt in Eternal Darkness style! (i.e. cut left arm, check; amputate right arm, chek; cast shield spell, roger; decapitate monster, affirmative).

My best word of advice to all you people who love this game, sit down and evaluate why you think it's so great. If you do, you'll probably find that you have a lot of emotional problems yourself that probably ought to be worked out first before you start glorifying this game. Normal people don't appreciate being misled and robbed of their hard earned $40 dollars.
Toodles.

Not Impressed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: September 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ha you fools all of you, you clowns!!!! HA HA HA! RESIDENT EVIL 4 is going to beat the pants of this piece of crap! HAHAHAHAHA!

Oh my god...just shoot me already

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Silent Hill 3: I'm not sure maybe it's just me...but This game sucks. I'm glad I just rented it and didn't waste my money buying it. When I was playing it felt like all my controls where ass backward. I gave it 2stars because of the soundtrack and graphics.

Konami didn't try hard

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: May 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was bad, had no new story and the graphics remained the same. Enviornment still remains to be unfinished, lack of charecters and no new weapons. The list could go on but the bottom line is that the game sucks. 4/10.

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