Silent Hill 3

Rating:
Summary: Atmosphere of absolute fear....
Review: Right from the beginning, you get a taste of the horror that awaits you. But, from that point on, the horror only escalates. The hideous creaturs that confront you are straight out of a nightmare. The blood stained wallpaper jumps out at you at every corner. This game is flat-out frightening. I enjoyed Silent Hill 2 for its' merit on mostly gameplay. This game, however, one ups it with incredible and fluid graphics along with outstanding gameplay. Straight out of a grainy slasher flick. The music is also incredible. Most of the stlye of music stems from an undergound alternative style. Somewhat goth, somewhat punk. This game has great length. I finished it in about 20 hours. However, one small downside. This thing is HUGE! It's jammed onto 5 cd-roms. About 3 gig of hard-drive space needed. Plus, you have to consider savegame and memory-swap space. You should have around 4 gig available for this program. That's a hefty chunk. Other than that, this is unbelievable! Enjoy!

Rating:
Summary: What a huge disappointment!!!!
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: How do I give this game ZERO stars?
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: THE BEST HORROR GAME EVER
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: SATISFIED, finished it with a smile on my face
Review: 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.