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RENT WORTHY AT BEST

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: September 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all I'd like to clerify that I am an avid fan of the Silent Hill series since the first installation. Silent Hill The Room was just released so naturaly I got a copy. If you're reading this review you probably know the basic plot, you play as Henry Townshend, a resident of apartment 302 in an average building in a small city, half day's drive from Silent Hill. For five days Henry's been trapped in his apartment with no way out and no way to communicate with the outside world. With that said lets get to the meat and potatos of this review, the game play. The graphics are similar to those of Silent Hill 2. Objects and levels are well rendered but washed over with a grainy effect. The character designs and animations are up to par with any other title on the xbox and voiceovers are done extremely well thanks to a cast of convincing actors. Sound effects are eerie and ambiant noises manipulate as well as warn you of danger. A new addition to the Silent Hill universe is the first person perspective. Henry is able to walk around his apartment completely in first person perspective (and you will be revisiting the apartment frequently). An icon appears on the upper left to notify the player they are looking at an item of interest. This feature is done well enough and movements translate smoothly from controller to screen.
THE ENEMIES
Although the enemies are well rendered and nicely animated, combat is extremely frustrating because of
POOR CAMERA ANGLES.
This is where the game falls apart. Although the weapons are easy enough to use, the camera is set in front of Henry and aimed at him from three to four feet away at nearly all parts of the levels where enemies await you. Since most of the levels are halls and small rooms (like the previous SH's) this "cinematic" approach acomplishes only getting you killed in the game. Survival Horror games are plagued with bad camera angles and this has been a concern among gamers with the first three Silent Hill games and this version takes that frustration to the max. It's almost as if it was done deliberately to annoy the players. The story is very well done, the atmosphere is ambiant and creepy. It is a very good game, the camera angles however hinder your ability to fight enemies and being swarmed by three or four dogs is bad enough, try fending them off with a camera two feet in front of your face LOOKING AT YOU instead of the action.
Fans of the SH series should rent The Room. If the cinematic-yet devastating to gameplay- camera angles don't frustrate you, this is another excellent installment to your collection of morbid tales from Silent Hill. The designers put forth a valiant effort however gameplay was not as enjoyable as it should have been because of HORRIBLE camera angles.

beware of the 39.99 game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: September 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

With video games, it seems you get what you pay for, and with the exception of expansions, games that have had the appropriate amount of time and talent put into them are $49.99. So when I saw Silent Hill 4 for $39.99, I was suspicious. However, being a fan of Silent Hill 2 (3 never came out for xbox), I figured it was worth a try. Big mistake (and I think it speaks volumes that Amazon has ALREADY dropped the price by a few bucks only two days after its release). As noted in a previous review, the camera angles kill the game. You are constantly looking at your feet, your face, or walls. If you are lucky enough to see the enemy in front of you, you can't see the one behind you until it has already attacked. The attack system is awful, too. Bullets are useless, and it takes about 20 hits or so with the pipe to kill the enemy. The "story" is completely derivative, with many scenes and effects taken straight out of horror movies like The Ring. The first 15 minutes of the game was one clip after another, interspersed with walking around until enough time has elapsed in order to play another clip. Saving the game requires running all the way back to the apartment, which you'll want to do after killing an enemy or two (seeing how long it takes to finally lead-pipe them to death)...otherwise, you'll find yourself loading up the last save which typically loses you ten or fifteen minutes of work. The game barely breaks out of the "one star" categories only because the atmosphere and sound is effectively creepy. Overall, a huge disappointment and one that is headed straight for the "bargain bin" at EB's.

A total classic! Not a knock-off of Resident Evil.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a spectacular game. It is horrific, but it's not so much "OH, my god! Im gonna die!" scary, it's more like, "If that was me, I dont know what I'd do!" scary. It kinda gives you that chills. Resident Evil was slightly more "BOOM!" scary. It scared you right then and there with no expectations. But Silent Hill, the story unwravels. It's more like a mystery, which makes it so scary. It is a game of which you are able to veiw your character "3rd Person", but at your apartment, it is "1st person". When you begin the game, you wake up in your apartment and figure out that you were locked in and the clues that the ? has left in your apartment leads you to different worlds that test you skills. The first is the train station. It is very confusing, but try to cut through the two trains as quickly as possible. It is okay if you loose Cynthia, the girl you meet earlier, but you'll find her later. I can't tell you anymore, but the game has a great story, and you later figure out after the subway world that you are not dreaming, you were sucked into hell's reality after you visit at Silent Hill, and others have too (Cynthia). The game is nothing like Resident Evil, it is more scary and has the scariness of the first time you see "The Grudge" and the mysteriousness of "SAW". Spectacular game. It really should be put into a movie. I would reccomend this game for advanced players. It is tough, so get some of your Xbox knowledge stuffed in your brain, because your going to have to use it in "Silent Hill 4: The Room".

The best Silent Hill since the first

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The previous installments, like the latest one, have their own sub-genre. The first and second ones were kind of murder mysteries, the third one was a religious horror, and Silent Hill 4:The Room, is a serial killer type. Henry, your average joe, starts experiencing these nightmarish dreams. As these dreams continue, his appartment starts to change. One day, he wakes up, and there is a massive hole in his bathroom wall. He travels through these worlds and ends up finding out about and meeting Walter Sullivan, a man that supposedly can't die. The concept behind the game is great, and the atmosphere is perfectly eerie. I highly reccomend this game.

A let down for fans.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love Silent Hill. Happiness was the day a new Silent Hill game came out and I could run to the game store after work to get it. I still get that creeped out feeling when I play Silent Hill 2 or 3 in the dark. If a game makes it hard to fall asleep, it's a good scary game.

Silent Hill 4? There are some fun connections to the other games if you look hard enough. It turns out the landlord of your building in 4 is Mary's father (your wife in Silent Hill 2). But all the connections are little things like that. However that's not enough to make it a bad game.

A bad game is a game that makes you do the same levels over and over again. A bad game has a shaky plotline and endings that don't make it worth it to play over and over again. A bad game takes the scariest level in it's previous games (the hospital level. Every Silent Hill game has one and they're all pretty damn scary) and makes you laugh instead of fear. THE NURSES BURP WHEN YOU HIT THEM WITH A PIPE! NO JOKE! It sounds like they drank a bottle of soda before they decided to try and kill you. It's not scary, it's not even that funny, it's kind of sad.

Other than that, the game has a decent soundtrack, your room can get quite scary if you let it, and although none of the characters are all that likeable, I ended up growing attatched to Cynthia.

If you're a Silent Hill fan, you should play it just to play it. If you're not you might still enjoy it because it's quite different then the rest of them. It just didn't compare to the other three.

This game sucks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Boring, boring - be prepared to waste hours retracing your steps and running into dead ends. The pace is slow, the story is twisted, or non-existant. After playing it a few days I got stuck and spent a lot of time re-playing several scenes. You'll have more fun lighting your foot on fire. For a good sci-fi horror game, get Doom3. For a bad one, get this game - I'd be happy to give it to you.

Walk Smash Repeat

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has a great atmosphere, but thats it. I found it very repetative and dull. The HUD is a bit confusing and it just isn't practical. Walk around for 20 minutes, creepy music plays kill the monsters go back to you room for the next clue - Repeat - repeat repeat.

Es Bueno .... pero

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: October 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Silent Hill 4: The Room es el nuevo juego de esta famosa serie de survival horror que nos ha convertido en unos adictos al miedo, por decirlo de alguna manera. Sin embargo, si te gustaron los anteriores ten cuidado, pues en South Ashfield las cosas las hacen de otra manera.

Odio a mis vecinos..
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El juego no se desarrolla, como los anteriores, en Silent Hill sino en el pueblo vecino, South Ashfield, y como parece ser aqui tambien hay un buen puñado de locos dispuestos a hacerte pasar un rato de horror. Tu juegas como Henry Townshend, un ciudadano promedio que vive en un edificio de apartamentos y que un dia, al despertar, nota que esta atrapado en su apartamento. Al inspeccionar un poco la situacion nota que algunas cosas han cambiado, muebles movidos, fotos extrañas hasta encuentra un orificio para espiar a su vecina, y por si fuera poco hay un agujero en su baño en el que al entrar viaja a mundos paralelos llenos de criaturas deformes. Lo bueno es que Henry no esta solo, en cada nivel encotrará a una personas que tambien se encuentran atrapadas en este mundo bizarro, pero como te imaginaras en la tradición de SH, estas personas no son precisamente la compaña que Henry necesita, si sabes a que me refiero.

El Nuevo Chico del Pueblo
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La forma de jugar ha cambiado drasticamente respecto de las anteriores entregas. Cuando estas en tu habitacion la historia se desarrolla desde una perspectiva de primera persona, mientras en los diferentes niveles utilizas la tradicional perspectiva de tercera persona. Esto funciona bien, sin embargo en ocaciones, como es comun en SH, la camara te juega malas pasadas lo cual podria irritarte un poco. Otro aspecto que notaras inmediatamente es que el radio y la linterna, iconos de la serie, han desaparecido, asi como las eternas caminatas en la neblina que practicamente no existen en este juego. Y... ¿adivina que? no hay acertijos, de verdad que no los hay, pues los pocos que podrian serlo en alguna medida son solo la realizacion de tareas poco imaginativas y sin sentido (como el de la habitacion de cabeza).
A todo esto debemos agregar la manejabilidad de Henry, que es un punto debil del juego, en ocaciones es dificil calcular si se esta demasiado cerca o demasiado lejos de un enemigo lo cual hará que en muchas ocaciones salgas lastimado al tratar de hacertar un golpe.
Los sustos, que son la principal característica de estos juegos, siguen estando a la orden del dia, creeme, en mas del alguna ocación estaras pegando un brinco de tu silla y escucharas como palpita tu corazón mientras recorres los diferentes niveles.

Cuentame un Cuento...
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Sin embargo hay algo que no ha cambiado, tiene una buena historia. La historia en The Room es lo suficientemente interesante para mantenerte jugando y hacer que lo problemas del juego sean aceptables. Algunas de las cosas que te parecerán interesante son las referencias a los juegos anteriores, tal es el caso del encargado del edificio, cuyo hijo vivió hace años en Silen Hill, el apellido del encargado es Sunderland... que te recuerda? (SH2)
La historia por si sola es razón suficiente para que deses jugar y jugar sin parar, siempre esperando regresar a tu habitación para ver que encuentras debajo de la puerta.

Pueblo Nuevo, Vida Nueva
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En conclusion, SH4 tiene algunos puntos debiles, asi como un estilo de juego bastante diferente que hara que algunos lo detesten. Sin embargo es este nuevo estilo lo que atraiga a nuevos seguidores. En definitiva SH4 es un juego bueno para aquellos que les gusta disfrutar de una buena historia acompañada de un buen rato de terror psicologico.

Calificacion:
Graficas: 7
Sonido: 7
Control: 6
Historia: 8
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Diversion: 7

THIS GAME BLOWS PEOPLE. BLOWS. BLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: February 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think my title and "K"'s review says it all. Unless you've played SH games before, and/or are absolutely a survival/demented horror freak DO NOT BUY. RENT IF YOU ARE CURIOUS, then you'll only be disappointed in a small sum of money wasted.

I can't believe I wasted forty minutes of my life beated retarded dogs with metal poles. I was hoping it would get better or something, trying to find reason for wasting thirty-odd bucks on it...then a ghost showed up and I said Screw this crap. And I played good games like MK Deception and Burnout 3.

People need to get a reality check. Just cause video games are popular now more than ever, new and hyped don't mean good. Old school games like the original MK's, Tekken, old Wolfenstein (for its day), Doom 1 and Rainbow Six were the good stuff. And those arcade fighters, the side scrollers with big guy, the martial artist and the middle man were awesome in their day. And Diablo 2, don't get me started. All these games, IN THEIR DAY, were defining. Revoluntionary. FUN. Halo, Silent Hill, Midnight Club, Quake 2, Half-Life 1 were hyped yesterday and are being hyped today. Someone persuaded the masses somehow to buy them, and I got caught up in it.

Bring back games with imagination and - gasp - an actually satisfying fun factor. These days its hard to find the good ones (Burnout 3, MK Deception, Return to Castle Wolfenstein) amongst the throngs of retarted trash. Grand Theft what? Pixel porn and finding the best way to torture and mutilate people (Punisher, Manhunt). No wonder people think violence stems from video games. By removing the fun and innovation, that's all they got anymore!

A room full of nightmares...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Now I got this game yesturday so I'm not very far yet but from what I have played this game kicks @$$. Right at the beginning it is kinda slow , you don't do alot but within a couple of minutes you should be fighting a bunch zombies/monsters and "dogs". Bad things about this game - the camera angle is sometimes a pain, it makes it hard to see emenies , and some might consider this a good thing some a bad thing ,but there is no auto aim when you are fighting, it actually requires some skill, not alot, but some.(I think it is a good thing , it makes the game more challenging). And pretty much everything else is good. Good sound , good graphics, I think it has a good concept (wierd but good). This game is definetly worth checking out.

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