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Grim, Scary, Good Storyline

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've read about the Silent Hill series of games for years and tried Silent Hill 2 for PC, but did not care for it. I abandoned it before ever finishing it.

Silent Hill 4 is an impressive game, overall. Very complex and a strong storyline. This is why I give it 4 stars.

Here's why I cannot give it 5:

There are some definite scares, but they tend to wear thin after awhile. Going back and forth, over and over, to the room and the same terrain got old. Also, one thing I'm really not a fan of is the grunge/blood/rust/gritty look of every single scene. I think the areas that were ghastly and gritty would have had more of an impact on my senses if Henry's apartment, when it was normal, didn't look like it hadn't been painted or cleaned for several years. Henry's apartment is supposed to get worse as the story deepens, but because the room is already in such a dull state, I really didn't notice it.

With such detailed graphics and attention toward drawing you into a horrific experience, I think the artists missed the boat on cleaning up the more normal areas.

Despite my opinion, this IS an excellent game and I have no regrets in buying it.

Mediocre, not very frightening

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I watched my husband play through this game from beginning to end. I have to be honest and say I wasn't that impressed. While the game certainly has its odd and surreal moments, it wasn't all that haunting or frightening as a whole. Those who say "Silent Hill" is extremely scary make me wonder. While I thought the recent film certainly captured an essence of strangeness and scariness, this game just didn't do it for me. My husband also commented that this game was not originally meant to be part of "Silent Hill?" (He also admits that the first game is much more frightening than this one.)

I found the ending of Silent Hill 4: The Room to be quite disappointing as well. You are left without any real sense of resolution. When my husband got one of the "good" endings, I asked him, "is that all?" Really, it didn't seem worth it to go through what he did for the ending. The entire plot was also so convoluted that it didn't make sense -- when you find out the truth behind the killer's motives and his own scattered ideologies and beliefs, you might also be very disappointed. As I told my husband, it just didn't make any sense and it left you feeling that way afterwards.

This game was all-right

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Silent Hill is usually one of my favorite games but this time was different, this game was clearly bad. I loved the music and the graphic but the controls were really messed up and I had problems getting around things.

Average at best

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I ordered this game back in April when I was still looking forward to playing it as it was the only game in the Silent Hill series I hadn't gotten around to exploring yet, but when it arrived I found it to be rather disappointing and haven't really played it since.
I want to start with the first thing that really got to me, which was just how underwhelming the protagonist is. While Harry was searching for his daughter, James his dead wife, and Heather for answers after being trapped in Silent Hill, so-and-so simply finds himself trapped in his apartment. I say so-and-so because I can't even recall his name. Sure I could spend a couple seconds looking it up but honestly I couldn't care less since he seems to possess the emotional depth of flatware set and doesn't truly deserve to be called anything other than one dimensional.
Sure it's a bit 'creepy' I suppose, since the door is chained shut from the inside and none of the windows will open either, but I just didn't feel like he was giving it his all. Perhaps I would have been a bit happier to see a brief cinematic of him attempting to break the glass with a chair or something, but his internal dialog itself is so drab and awful that it made me adamantly believe that he himself was more apathetic to the current situation than I was.
The rest of the cast consists of a random person that dies about ten minutes into the actual game, some antagonist named Walter, and a neighbor girl who can be stalked and scrutinized via your door's peep-hole along with a small hole in the wall. My hypothesis would be that these are the only relevant characters within the game since previous Silent Hill tiles had a similarly small cast that worked rather well, but then again this title seems to be bent on systematically destroying the things that made the series great in the first place. I really don't know since I only made it past the first area, and quite frankly didn't give enough of a s*** to find out.
The gameplay itself remains semi-intact, the same run/aim/shoot setup, but now you have the ability to switch weapons on the fly and hold down the fire button with melee weapons for a charged attack. Not that any of this matters what so ever since 70% of the enemies I encountered were ghosts who could not be killed anyway. It isn't all ghosts and such though since I stomped on some leopard things that seemed almost like they were phoned in, and some humanoids lashed at me from the walls of an escalator; but that's about it. The really sad part is that the ghosts don't really even attack you, they just drain your health by being within a certain distance of you while exerting an aura that seems to say "I'm killing you, but I'm not really into it".
While this can induce sequences of panic if you like to take acid while playing your games, it usually just results in sequences of "meh" as you run through the level to escape them. The whole thing really dampers the entire 'exploration' aspect of the game, since chances are you'll spend more time just running from them instead of using a special item that keeps them stationary (yes, I am aware that said item exists, but it only lasts until you leave the room, and there aren't many anyway) in order to take in the rather poor level design in all its grandeur.
Where the Silent Hill of old had very a atmospheric aspect that seemed to isolate you from the rest of the world, this b****rd son takes an alternate route by placing you in a world you can't interact with directly. Although the idea is that this would have the same effect, I felt more like I was playing as Howard Hughes and began to harbor the notion that my character simply didn't enjoy social interaction, opting instead to barricade himself within his own home in the hopes of escaping the world around him.
No matter how many ways I tried to slice it to convince myself I was having fun, I wasn't. I really didn't enjoy running from ghosts, wandering aimlessly around a subway work area, or listening to my characters contrived little thoughts. There was absolutely nothing I found to be engrossing in this title and how it manages to get such good reviews ruins my mind. You could try to come off deep and say this is a "psychological horror" title, and maybe I just don't "get it" but I'm willing to risk the 'unhelpful' votes and call it out on the piece of rubbish that it is.
It seems that every time a title arises that breaks free of the constraints previously placed on a genre by other titles and distinguishes itself from the rest of the tripe, said title must then become a series and be whored out for all it's worth. I'm glad that that the Silent Hill series gave us two and three but this is the kind of sequel that makes me wish to God that there was a law against producing more than three titles in a given series.
If you want to swing a steel pipe at the same enemy, while running around a bland world for four or five hours, intermittently taking breaks to return to your place to save and replenish health; go for it. More power to you. You've obviously been tempered in raw sewage and won't be phased by it. On the other hand if you want something with substance that delivers on the chills spend your scratch on number two instead, or check out the Fatal Frame trilogy.

Silenthill?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 23
Date: October 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I dont think im even shure that is from the silenthill series.This game is confusing and it gets sortof boring.You might like this one if you like walking around never finding any thing realy diferent from the same floating in bodyments that hurt you when they touch you?i rented it and hated it.

Konami W T F ?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 23
Date: January 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

SH 4 the worst in the series if you want a good survival horror game go out and buy RE 4 that game is worth 100 if not 50 bucks Sh 4 is only worth a measly penny...

That giant sucking sound....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 18
Date: September 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You hear is Konami destroying this once proud franchise. I suffered through this game out of my dedication to the series alone, and the only thing that horrified me was that I continued to play it. Damn you Konami. Damn you.

Surprisingly good!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ive played all the Silent hill games, and I Loved 1&2, but I was so disturbed by the difficulty and bad storyline and bloody graphics of Silent Hill 3, that I passed over Silent Hill 4. By chance I ran into this game and I LOVED it. Not too hard, plenty of saves, interesting story and I am now hoping there is a Silent Hill 5.

The Truth about Silent Hill 4...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Oh boy... thats what I recall about Silent Hill 4 The Room... which I renamed Silent Hill 4 The Toilet! This was the fourth and hopefully not last title in the Silent Hill series. To be brute-honest I have to say that this game lacked in everything.

Now I know I have been rough with my reviews of Silent Hill 3 and Silent Hill, but I would at least recommend you playing those other titles. If even once... just to say you did but folks this game is not even worth that.

Not only will you see a million rehashed "Scary" moments but you never find yourself even really breaking a sweat. That is sad my friends because I truly believe they rushed this title out way to early. There is no fear that you have not already seen, there is no rush of adrenaline that you have not already felt... this game is dry.

To be honest, graphics and all that jazz are great, hey PSX 2 title it better have great graphics and what-not, especially new off the shelf for $50. However this games storyline and gameplay were just not there... and I'm sorry but I found myself thinking back to the late Chris Farley in a film he did called Beverly Hills Ninja, in this movie he kept flying through the astroplane... he'd scream "NO SENSAE I HATE THIS... NO!" well I'd chuckle and repeat those lines as I went through a huge hole in my bathroom wall everytime I visited the now lame and laid back "Hell" of Silent Hill.

Bottom line is don't buy it... trust in the fact that this game failed to deliver and only Silent Hill Fanboys are going to tell you to buy it anyways. The only reason I gave a 3 in Game Overall is because it bares the name Silent Hill... sad loss... thanks Konami :(

you have 4 choices

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: January 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

amazon.com lists four choices and i would have to say dont buy it from target i wasent satisfied get it from the other 3 they are much better choices. i repeat, dont buy it from target!

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