Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3 is the third installment in the Silent Hill series. Like the previous entries, Silent Hill 3 is a survival horror combining action-based combat and puzzle-solving, but is somewhat more…
Silent Hill 3 is an adventure developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, released 23 May 2003 on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 6.7 hrs to finish.
What Silent Hill 3 is
Silent Hill 3 is an adventure game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and released in 2003. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Seventeen years have passed since the events of the first game, and the baby whom the Incubator gave to Harry Mason at the end of the first game, Heather Mason, is now a teenage girl. Harry took Heather into his care to raise as his own daughter. One fine day, Heather goes shopping but is suddenly thrust into a strange alternate reality filled with demonic imagery and twisted monsters. She hears footsteps, disgusting, creepy monsters attack her, and she has to defend herself. Heather quickly comes to find that the events unfolding around her have something to do with her past. Exploring the eerie town of Silent Hill, she must find a way to escape.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Silent Hill series
Silent Hill 3 is the sixth of 39 entries we hold in the Silent Hill series. It arrived a year after Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams. The next entry was Silent Hill 4: The Room in 2004. Its critic score of 88 is 14 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Silent Hill 2 at 90.
How it was received
Silent Hill 3 holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 428 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.7 hrs.
What it launched against
Silent Hill 3 launched on 23 May 2003, within three weeks of Rise of Nations, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon and Eve Online. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Rise of Nations, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon, Eve Online.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Silent Hill 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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