Silent Hill is an adventure developed by Team Silent, released 24 February 1999 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Silent Hill is
Silent Hill is an adventure game developed by Team Silent and released in 1999. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Harry Mason and his daughter Cheryl are driving to their favourite vacation spot. Late that night, a figure suddenly appears from out of the darkness. Harry turns the wheel in panic, and the car careens off the road, knocking harry unconscious. Awakening sometime later, he realizes that Cheryl is missing. Stumbling out of the wreckage, he heads towards the small town of Silent Hill.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Silent Hill series
Silent Hill is the first of 39 entries we hold in the Silent Hill series. The next entry was Silent Hill: Play Novel in 2001. Its critic score of 82 is 8 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Silent Hill 2 at 90.
How it was received
Silent Hill holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 589 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs.
What it launched against
Silent Hill launched on 24 February 1999, within three weeks of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Syphon Filter and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Syphon Filter, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Silent Hill yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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Characters
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Dlc
Remakes
Quick answers
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