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Extremly unrevised review of Silent hill2 i wrote.
11.26.02, 19:43:47
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dont laugh, i havent revised this and i only wrote it for the hell of it, i can point out a lot of mistakes right now including the whole thing just seems to ramble on and one of the words i used i was only halfway sure of its meaning, like i said, i havent revised it.
and it seems to be too short.
Silent Hill2 has already been on the market for a while now and it is safe to say that there have already been many people who have made the decision of purchasing it. But for all you "late" buyers out there, grab some popcorn and stay awhile.
To anyone who really knows me, knows that this gamer is obsessed with Silent hill, i would go far as to say that it scared me like no other game could. I laughed at what was said about the game at first, i couldnt imagine a game that was actaully scary, I had seen games that had monsters or horrible creatures in it, but as far as a creepy game, i knew of none that existed, not even the RE series convinced me that there were actaully "scary" games out there, but Silent Hill took me by suprise.
My love for the original makes me all the more so dissapointed in what Silent Hill2 is lacking. I've seen a lot of seqauls i didnt like, but this almost on the top of the list, right next to RE: Survivor.
There isnt really too much i could really say about the plot of Silent Hill2, because Silent Hill didnt have a story that was all that great either, and yet i think this one was a bit worse. I didnt like the charector change, but this is kind of biased and really shouldnt effect my overall opinion of the game, I have NEVER liked any charector changes at all, I even started jumping for joy when i found out that Sqauresoft finnally decided to quit there awful policy of no real seqauls and made ff10-2, back to our orginal subject. Silent Hill2's new charector is "James Sunderland" instead of "Harry Mason" and your looking for a dead wife instead of a missing daughter. The voice acting in the first game was bad, and the same is to for this one, there are no likeable charectors, no one that stands out in charector design or pesonality beside that which mirrors the attempted mood in the game. Dialogue in SH2 is ussaully with short, meaningless sentences that develops the plot in no way whatsoever.
The graphics and visaul aspects of the game are one of the more obvious promblems with it, there better, but barely enough for a decent seqaul, and not enough at all for a game on a newer system, the game is a mockery of the capabilities of a PS2. Another thing i didnt like about the game visaully is the way the charecters looked, I didn't know whether to be afraid of the monsters or James Sunderland.
Gameplay has got to be by far the most important aspect in a game, it,' undisputable, a game is a game. Well folks, the gameplay in this game leaves you miserable. The gameplay in SH was a little sluggish, but SH2 is just plain slow, the gameplay has a pretty good chance of putting you to sleep, I know i dozed off with the controller in my hand. Maybe the slow, boring gameplay wouldn't be so bad if the game was actaully scary and tensioned filled throughout most of it. The difficulty level of the game is set exactly acording to the level you set it, by that i mean that you can set the level of difficulty on both the puzzles and the action of the game seperately. Besides this, the difficulty level of SH2 was no diffrent than Sh.
What Silent Hill is known for by most who have played it is being deserving of the title "scariest game ever", even though i did find SH2 to be slightly creepy and a little nerve-racking at times, i dont think it came close to its predessesor. One thing i was sadly dissapointed in was the fact that the place just didnt change as much. In SH, areas that were already creepy would change into hellish, and utterly horrible scenes of chain-linked floors and meat hooks hanging from ceilngs. You didnt see too many of those types of transoformations in SH2, the normal atmosphere of the town in SH2 was a little bit more scary than the normal atmosphere and backrounds in SH, but they had nothing on those moments when the town of Silent Hill became scarier in that first game. The veiw of the player (camera angles) is also an issue we must look at, it could be considered controversial on wheter or not the camera angles in SH could be considered good or bad. To me it seems as if these camera angles were designed to make the player feel constricted, clausterphobic even. But at times the camera angles became fusterating when trying to look at objects for certain objects, in SH2 promblems like this are worsened and there is no success in the area of trying to set a
certain moode with the camera angles, i listened to my dad repeatdly say as he played the game, "this is why
I play first person shooter's" and for this paticular game, i agreed with him.
My overall opinion of the game is that its average or a little below average, average doesnt cut it with me considering the fact that playstation2 games are selling for fifty bucks, the only games worthy of actaully buying are those that rise above the average game and make you forget to eat or sleep. Dont get me all wrong, i did find some things i liked about the game or merely tolerated, but writing about how it was "kind of scary" or that this game may be played if your extremly bored would not justify me writing even a mediocre review of the game. |
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