[PS3, X360] Silent Hill is the Star of Silent Hill - Downpour

[PS3, X360] Silent Hill is the Star of Silent Hill - Downpour
The town is the star of the game you say? Yes, this is how it has been intended to be interpreted. It looks as though Vatra Games could be onto something here.

Fans of Konami's survival-horror franchise have been woeful about its studio-hopping ways but if what Brian Gomez says in Game Informer is true then we could be looking at a semi-return to form.

"If you look at the whole series, the way that we chose to look at the series - Silent Hill as an entity, a genius loci - is the character," Gomez told the mag, "Silent Hill the town is the star of the show. In the way that Jigsaw is in Saw, he's the inciting force and events transpire around him. That's what Silent Hill is like. So we see Silent Hill as the only consistent character across the whole series."

Now that is the kind of understanding we like to hear from a developer who is making the next Silent Hill game. To further increase the chances of this game being a return to form, he also hits a second nail on the head.

"It's really about who you plug into it," he added. "You get a different result whenever you plug in a different person with a different psychology, a different load of guilt or remorse that they're carrying around with them."

And the final blow? They plan on bringing back the occasional static camera as well as the free control one. Hopefully we'll get to see some footage of the new Silent Hill again soon. If you missed the other details from the Game Informer spread check out our thread here.

Written by: Kyran Morrison

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