Silent Hill 3 (2003) (VG)

Director:

Kazuhide Nakazawa

Writer:

Hiroyuki Owaku (scenario)

Release Date:

6 August 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery

Tagline:

The most terrifying game returns

Plot:

The third game in the Silent Hill Trilogy. The heroine of this game is teenaged Heather who is suddenly...

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Silent Hill | Carousel | Bathroom | Loss Of Father

Cast

Heather Morris	...	Heather / Cheryl (voice)
Richard Grosse	...	Douglas Cartland (voice)
Donna Burke	...	Claudia Wolf (voice)
Clifford Rippel	...	Father Vincent (voice)
Matt Lagan	...	Leonard Wolf (voice)
Lenne Hardt	...	Confessor (voice)
Mike Matheson	...	Borley Mansion Guide (voice)

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:16 | UK:15 | USA:M

Company:

Konami Computer Entertainment

Trivia:

The game features numerous references to Silent Hill 2 (2001), including several small Silent Hill 2 posters in the Mall. When playing the game with a Silent Hill 2 save game on the memory card or harddisk, other references appear: - In the Mall, you are given the option to retrieve something from a dirty toilet. When doing so, Heather will crouch and hesitantly move her hand towards the toilet, accompanied with suspensful music. At the last moment she comes to her senses, turns to the camera and says "Gross. Who would do something like that anyway?". (In Silent Hill 2, the player had to retrieve a wallet from a clogged toilet). - When examining your mailbox in the appartment building, Heather comments that there is no mail, not "even from a dead wife". Silent Hill 2 starts with the player receiving a letter from his wife who has been dead for 3 years. - When examining the fence on the roof of Brookhaven Hospital, Heather says "it doesn't look like it's about to break". James from Silent Hill 2 was thrown through the fence off the roof.

Quotes:

Douglas: You remind me of my son.
Heather: But I thought nobody was going to cry for you...
Douglas: Dead people don't cry.

Movie Connections:

References Suspiria (1977)

Soundtrack:

Rain of Brass Petals (Three Voices Edit)

Very good story and atmosphere...just what you expect in Silent Hill.

This one I like a bit less than part two, but they are almost even in their enjoyment value. However, my favorite of the series now has to be Silent Hill Origins thanks to a vastly improved combat and movement system. This one has a good story of a girl who while at the mall starts to see weird things, then of course monsters show up and our gal named Heather must navigate the demented mall, which gets even more demented after a ride in an elevator. She also has to navigate the subways, sewers, and office buildings...all this before she even gets to Silent Hill! And once you get to Silent Hill you will be amazed at how foggy it is! The story is great as it seems to be a sequel to the first one, and of course Origins fits nicely in there too. I would elaborate on it more, but I don't want to give to much away...except I will say I hated that Claudia woman a lot. Those religious nuts always get my blood boiling. So there you have it, the atmosphere is also killer, I loved how you switched over to the more deformed and evil world and the puzzles were not to difficult to piece together. The problems come in the combat...a weakness for all Silent Hill games, you often get damaged and killed less because of your skill and more for the camera angles. Granted this makes it a bit more scary I guess, but I hate when the camera pans to the front of you when I need to see what is ahead. It is also sometimes to hard as I had a bit of difficulty with the final enemy even on easy. Still all in all this was a great survival horror game.