

These decisions ended up being more polarizing than not, and the game rushes itself through its characters and story, to its detriment.Īlex Shepherd is a 22 year old soldier returning home to Shepherd’s Glen. Its visual language is influenced by the first movie, released a couple years prior, and it emphasizes more action over puzzles. The game, developed by Double Helix Games, features all new characters and sets itself in the adjacent town of Shepherd’s Glen. Silent Hill Origins wasn’t exactly a success, despite grounding itself in the series’ lore and history, and the movie revived interest with Silent Hill: Homecoming, released in 2008 on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, moves even further in an original direction. As the second game in Konami’s outsourcing of the series, Silent Hill: Homecoming had a lot to live up to.
