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What a huge disappointment!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game controls on this are so difficult for PC that it becomes massively frustrating. Also there are so few health packs and ammo that this games sucks horribly.

THE BEST HORROR GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: November 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS AMAZING, FOR THE FANS OF THE OTHER 2 PREVIOUS GAMES THIS GAME IS HAVED TO BE PLAYED. The best horror game ever. With new characters, weapons, monsters and mysteries this game have everithing. In the PC version is better tha the PLAYSTATION 2 version because os the graphics and you will be aloud to save in every part you want. Silent Hill 3 is more connected to the first Silent Hill than to the Second.

Now you play as a girl named Heather that was traped in a nightmare, you will be understanding the game later.

Will not work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Even with the recommended specs and updated drivers I cannot get this game to install correctly. It keeps crashing my computer and skipping installation disks and then saying the installation is complete. I'm not sure what the problem is but the game definitely has some technical issues. Avoid.

SATISFIED, finished it with a smile on my face

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun, simply put. When I finished it, I smiled. I felt that I got my money's worth.
The graphics and all forms of game visuals were outstanding. The environment in which your character progresses gave an ominous, almost distrubing feeling. From the abondoned normal world inhabited only by nigtmarish creatures to the nightmare worlds with scenes of people being dealt a cruel demise and oozing walls.
The characters displayed realistic emotion, thus making it easier to sympathize with the characters' predicament. My only main complaint is how it looked like pixels were flying around everywhere (and this realtime 3D). However, I guess this was intentional, meant to look like a grainy movie from a film projector.
The plot was well written, for a game at least. It definitely psychological horror, and the complex storyline makes you think. I felt that the characters were well devoloped, inducing me to become emotionally involved in the game. Even the less important characters improved the overall atmosphere of the game.
The soundtrack is great. Good music is always a plus on a game. Some of the songs were designed to make the game scarier, some are just simply nice to listen to. It made me want to look up some the two singers of some of these songs, and found out that they don't have singing careers.
The biggest problem with the game is its controls. They're terrible. The protoganist (Heather) looks like an idiot when she tries to swing a katana or any melee weapon. Just a bunch of hitting and missing.
Unlike scary movies, scary games can be even more scarier because they force you to get involved with what's going on. You can sit back on a movie and notice the acting or other aspects of the movie and not really get involved with the story, but when you try to keep your character from getting from getting killed you're not thinking about anything else.
If you love psychological horror, then get this game, I highly recommend it. Even if you don't like playing games, get it anyways, put it on easy (action and riddle) so you can just watch story unfold.

Getting old

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have to say that this game is creepy. It gives my ugly feelings inside. Not scarey, creepy which is just as effective in many respects. However, we've seen the walking through corridors in the dark with a flashlight thing in Silent Hill 2. And those feaky monsters sometimes just make no sense. One of them looks like a nipple with two legs. How about some old fashioned zombies or something? At least the monsters in Silent Hill 2 were somewhat humanoid - like dummy's. If you've never played the series before, start with Silent Hill 2. For ten bucks, this isn't bad at all, but it's less together than the one before it. The monsters are just annoying and the maps are repetitive.

Creepy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My enjoyment bar for this game seems to increase while I am not playing it. The voice acting could be more believable. The characters, especially yourself, could be a lot better developed. The game is very vague, no matter how thorough you are about piecing together clues, probably deliberate as the plot, when there finally is a plot, demands that you be confused. Unfortunate also that when there finally is a plot it comes with a large dose of ideological pushiness. I can change the color of the blood, but I can not change the color of the politics.

The voice acting could be more believable. The characters, especially yourself, could be a lot better developed. There is a certain likeability or dislikeability that follows each character pretty well, but that is more a matter of mannerism than background. A shame considering the detailed backgrounds available to the series.

The monsters could be more inspiring, though you really should not be getting a good look at many of them, if you do get a good look at them, there really isn't much to see. Many of them are like ink blots, you should be able to see a lot in their lack of form but true to the "Psychological theme" it follows Freud, there is something clearly genital like about many of these monsters which really makes sense and that is the scariest part of all.

The Camera angles could make more sense, as the whole "walking in to the camera" thing is horrible and being able to see the others sides of walls when you can not see in front of yourself is a great reminder that you are playing a badly laid out video game; though some of this may be an effort to just make you feel uneasy, it may not be the right kind of uneasy.

If you like the older "Nine Inch Nails" or "Tool" Music Videos, this should make you feel right at home and thoroughly disturbed. If you do not find this game disturbing, you are probably not safe to have around.

How do I give this game ZERO stars?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The interface on this game is TERRIBLE. I've been playing first-person shooters since they were invented, and this is one of the worst I've seen. It's not possible to walk a straight line! The character handles like she's submersed in custard. Even worse, the custard seems to have strange eddies and currents that cause her to walk into walls, fail to turn corners, and sometimes get sucked off into side passages. Why do they feel they have to reinvent controls that have been standard for a decade?

There's no real combat, you just push an "aim" button and the game aims for you. This sort of thing might fly on console games where you have to work around those idiotic game controllers, but the PC port should have provided the kind of control standard in games like Doom, Quake, UT, etc. Having no control of aim is especially frustrating in a room with multiple monsters, it's very difficult to pick which monster you want to take out first.

Even worse, the graphics and story of the game seem good. I claim that's a bad thing, because it taunts you with the promise of a good solid game but makes navigating through it so completely unenjoyable you'll give up before you get to see any of the good content.

I'm really glad I only spent $20 on this game. If I had spent the $40 they originally wanted I would have tried to get my money back. I plan on giving it one more change, then I'm going to uninstall it and shelve it.

I wish I could give this less than ZERO stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 27
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok. I know this is a port. But I've played ports in the past that DIDN'T reinvent the FPS concept. The only real horror story is in this game's design. The dialog is delivered like everyone is on Quaaludes - and the heroine moves and behaves like she IS on heroin. For a spry 17 year old she slogs around like the pregnant yak mired in a tar pit. Combat? What combat? No this is... "swing" (wait) "block" (wait) get ganked (wait) shuffle-shuffle GROWL (die). No quich switching of weapons. No quick reload. UGH. I .literally was yelling at the "MOVE DAMMIT!" The immortal words of O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill comes to mind; "stupid Caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords". Only Heather could use some pointers from Uma.

This is the first game where I actually began to hate the hero and wished she would just finally die. She was such a pure misery to try to maneuver. She can't even walk a straight line half the time. Her response to situations is disconnected and illogical. Her ability to fight is comical at best and frustrating to the point of exasperation at worst. Undoubtedly one of the lamest games I have wasted my money on in a long time.

Oh it has its upsides - it looks great. The imagery is top notch and the cinematics are fantastic. But save your cash and download the trailers from the site and you'll have more enjoyment. I wished )assuming they were over budget) - Konami would have cut the disconnected slow paced dialog and use the money to hire a decent writer - and more importantly - a development team that understands the fundamental principals of good gaming FPS UI design. You can't customize the control worth Jack. And assuming even if you could - the camera angle obscures what you are fighting 50% of the time. The other 50% you are trying to get the wench to even move her butt and swing or (wow) block if you timing it just right. Ammo is so scarce you are forced to use a stupid pipe most of the game - and when you finally upgrade that to a sword she so useless with it it's a misery to play. And the guns? Laugh. You can hit a critter point plank and her aiming is so whacked and inconsistent. Avoid this game like the plague. If you want horror - save your cash till Doom3 and Half Life 2 come out.

poor controls

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's really too bad, because I really wanted to actually PLAY this game. I am a _very_ experienced first-person and third-person gamer, and usually jump right into a new game "full throttle" or at the hardest setting (i.e. HALO, Deus Ex II, for example) and play it through several times. Not THIS bomb. You'd think, that game designers would realize that PC-game controls for first- or third- person have pretty well "been done" and perfected. Moreover, in REAL pc-based games, the adjustability is so great, that anyone can tweak the interface to match the exact style of play learned over hours of play ... not THIS turkey. VERY limited options. NO sensitivity settings for the mouse. NO axis-orentation adjustment possible (mouse again). You can go strictly keyboard (aka DOOM I, yes I said "doom one") but who plays THAT way these days? Steer/aim with the mouse, move/sidestep with the keyboard ... with THIS stupid, STUPID interface, you sort of slop your point-of-view around (with the mouse) in a sloppy, greasy sliding through jello-sort-of-way, and the character may or may not turn to face the way you want. Maybe. Eventually. It's like controlling a moth on a windy day, and the character tries to avoid actually looking at the moth, and so turns away-but you got NO direct control of the character. Maybe the game is as good as some say, maybe it's not. Right now, I'm trying to get a refund, as I'LL never play it, unless they release a patch that fixes the stupid, STUPID control/interface .... Y'hear this Konami? Pay ATTENTION! The interface HAS BEEN DONE! No need to re-invent it! If you are thinking of porting ANOTHER game to the PC world, DON'T BOTHER, if you can't take time to implement a TRUE pc-interface ... game pads are for CONSOLE games (which do not have keyboards or mice ANYway!)

Video Card Incompatibility

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I shelled out the money for this game after never having problems with any PC games and I get it home and install it and it tells me my video card doesn't have enough memory or something. I still haven't gotten to play it on the PC, but have on the PS2 and it is a great game, I just can't believe there isn't a graphics setting in case you don't have a newer video card. Most games are made to work with different setting to suit both old and newer computer set-ups, but not this one.

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