SilentHillMemories.net posted some images from the next GameInformer, in which the title of SH8 is finally revealed to be “Downpour.” It will be released by Vatra Games sometime in 2011 for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Rather than always using keys, sometimes you’ll use things like crowbars to open doors. Murphy Pendleton, the main character, doesn’t have a direct connection with any characters in the previous installments. We meet him on a bus, which crashes. Later, a police officer accuses him of having something to do with the crash. There will be sidequests, and you use a subway system to get from one place to another. There won’t be any schools or hospitals. The area the game takes place is a previously-unseen southeastern part of Silent Hill. Endings will be determined by specific decisions that the player makes in the game.
You can view the article here.
Wonderful, but I prefer DOWNFALL to be the subtitle over DOWNPOUR.
January 8th, 2011
I think I’d prefer “Silent Hill 8″ to be the full title, but oh well. I’m not too into the silly subtitles.
January 8th, 2011
…I have little hope for this. It’s being made by some unknown developer and isn’t even related to the past silent hill games–plus downpour reminds me of Heavy Rain. xD I fail at life. But yeah, I’m not going to hold my breath. If it’s good, I’ll get it, if it’s terrible, I’ll get it. No reason for me to really worry.
January 12th, 2011
I fail to see how “unknown developer” automatically means “sucks.” I’d rather remain hopeful that some other people can breathe new life into the series, though I’m not really getting my hopes up too much either.
January 13th, 2011
wow this game is gonna be badass XD
January 18th, 2011
@pakito, silent hill isn’t supposed to be badass.. doof..
i’m really not up for a new ”ACCTIONNNN” based silent hill.. i mean.. even removing the obligatory hospitals? WHAT IS THIS SORCERY! Why do they have to kill off survival horror!? first the classic RE being ruined by RE 4 & 5 then HOMECOMING fucks it all up.. seriously.. this is all shit.
January 20th, 2011
retro studios was unknown(I believe) & look what they did with metriod. I have hopes that this game will be greeeat.
February 3rd, 2011
Dr. K:
I fail to see how “unknown developer” automatically means “sucks.” I’d rather remain hopeful that some other people can breathe new life into the series, though I’m not really getting my hopes up too much either.
Mikael:
When did I ever say that? O_O It’s a fact that unknown developers usually have a rocky start because of lack of experience, and i never said it would suck just because of it. Ever heard of Amnesia the Dark Descent? Scariest game ever and the only other game the company had worked on was Penumbra. There’s always hope!
February 13th, 2011
After seeing some of the pics from silent hill downpour I’m actually excited about the new game but disappointed due to the fact that there is said to be no hospital nor school ): on the other hand this series seems like you get to travel throughout a decent sized map and hopefully it’s more difficult to get to a destination than in silent hill homecoming where the puzzles sucked and the map was a two street sketch with simple mazes “disliked that game because you can finish the game in less than 4 days, no challenge”.
April 27th, 2011
Yeah, same here. I mean, sure, we’ve had a LOT of hospital levels, but I’d love to see a better version of alchemilla (longer level, design more like SH1, but with awesome graphics). I love the school, too, esp in SH1. I hope the puzzles are good, too. we’ll have to just wait and see, i guess.
April 27th, 2011
I guess this game is going to be deferent without the hospitals and school seemingly good so far but that is just because of the graphics and artwork for the new game. I’m unsure if the new silent hill is to have the theme park but can recall reading something about the new game having one alongside with subway stations, so these places should make the game interesting and I was only able to identify one monster in the new game (some humanoid creature with nails that puncture thru the hands) other than that i think they will have the creepers and wonder if they will have the nurses sense no hospital will exist in the game but because the main character is a convict the monsters should reflect emotional distresses in his life and being a prisoner should play a major role in that. Anyone know of other monsters that will exist in silent hill downpour?
April 28th, 2011
it doesn’t have Akira(composer) it dissapoints me.
May 18th, 2011
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