Silent Hill 4 trailer.

[Lazychu]

Not watched myself yet.

Worth a try though I guess.

[Reynard]

Go on, you first.

[Caleb Newcastle]

Scariest thing so far is it's in Media Player and apparently I can't install that without "Administrator or higher levels of access."

[CouldBeWorse]

meh...the usual.

which isn't a bad thing.

[Lazychu]

Ok, I WON'T be playing that, thank you.

[AndyB]

I just watched it

and and a little bit of

What the fuck is that think at the end that spots you, points at you and then charges at you like a bastard.

This is now officially my most eagerly awaited game.

[df0]

SH4 is teh shiznit, shizzle fo nizzle

I am so into Silent Hill, part 4 will be made by the SH2 team.. .which is not a bad thing at all. Can't wait to see the Dog en Ufo ending

[gismalla]

The piece of artwork for that woman's face is absolutely incredible.

[gismalla]

Oh, and, fair enough, it will still have controls like a surfboard, and combat will be a nightclub of elephants, but that trailer alone makes most movies, in terms of art direction and imagination, look like utter shit by comparison.

[Uncle Nasty]

Very impressive, I enjoy the occasional survival horror and this looks blinding. There seems to be more gore than usual, it has a really twisted dark bloody feel to it. Nice. Any idea which format the clip is taken from?

[df0]

PS2 probably, because KCET 'know' how to use the PS2 hardware, just look at SH2 and 3.

[Alan Stock]

I'm not as impressed as you folks. It just looks like it's going to be exactly the same - the only enemy which looked remotely disturbing was the floating guy, and doubtless we can give it the codename: Silent Hill 4 - The Room with 3 doors with broken locks and one door which requires you to read an encylopedia to have a chance at solving the awful puzzle to get past.

[Ed-E]

Fucking ace. Looks like a real return to form - at least in the monster design area, anyway. SH3 was full of really shit monsters that didn't freak me out nearly as much as the two-torso mannequin things or Pyramid Head in SH2. But that floating guy and those people with the two doll faces... I can see that freaking me (shame about the fucking zombie dogs, though - were they ever scary?)

Those graphics look incredible. Too good, in fact - I hope I'm proved wrong, but there looked to be quite a bit of CG there.

Excellent editing, too - one of the scariest trailers around. Shame about the shit quality...

[DarhkFox]

looks cool some nice monsters esp the two faced doll things.

still looking forward to RE4 more though at the moment..

[The Liberal Elite]

very very very very nice.

all we need now ( or me, anyway) is absolutely no dialogue at all. ever.

[gismalla]

all we need now ( or me, anyway) is absolutely no dialogue at all. ever.

See, I think the characters (with a few exceptions) have got excellent voices, but they're always made to say the stupidest things.

[The Liberal Elite]

See, I think the characters (with a few exceptions) have got excellent voices, but they're always made to say the stupidest things.

exactly! They can't write for shit, so they shouldn't bother. They're so much better with teh whole visual thing. man lives in apartment with chained door, man breaks down door, freaky things happen. Who cares why?

[Alan Stock]

Yes. With. Unnescessarily.

Long Pauses. Like that.

I didn't think those 2 head things were scary at all. The babies face one was a bit though. Yes the monster and boss design in SH3 was poo, I forgot to mention that in the Silent Hill thread. Silent Hill 1 had loads of fricking scary monsters - the ghost babies, the nurses, those terryifying ape things, insect things etc. Even the dog things and flying things were kinda pink and unnerving. Silent Hill 2 had those goddam freaky leg things, Pyramid Head of course and some cool bosses. Silent Hill 3 had... those scurrying things and that was about it.

And no I don't think dog type creatures will ever be scary in a horror game expect for shock factor ala the classic Resident Evil moment.

[Pandy]

Just saw the trailer. Looks quite good so far. Personally I hope its more like SH2 than 3, but thats probably due to me playing 2 first..

However, looks promising.

[Ed-E]

exactly! They can't write for shit, so they shouldn't bother. They're so much better with teh whole visual thing. man lives in apartment with chained door, man breaks down door, freaky things happen. Who cares why?

Do you mean they can't write dialogue for shit, or write a good story for shit? Because, on the whole, I think what sets Silent Hill apart is the (mostly) intelligent way they've gone about having a story. It's not a horror game about a situation, it's a horror game about the people and their own personal hell, and that will always be Silent Hill's major selling point for me. Silent Hill 2 gripped me from beginning to end - a stunning concept for a story that never dulled throughout the life of the game. It was more of a tragedy, really.

But yeah, the dialogue is pretty bad. And it seems to me the voice acting has gotten WORSE as the series progressed. Maybe it's rose-tinted spectacles time but SH2 always seemed to have pretty good acting to me (the Maria ambiguity was brilliantly played, I thought), whereas SH3 was a bit... wank, really.

[Alan Stock]

What I find funny about the new SH games is that they have amazing animation and facial lip synching etc for the characters, and then destroy it all by having them say utterly stupid dialogue. It's kind of like filming an amazingly tense horror film sequence and then setting it to the music of Benny Hill.

[rmg]

Nice cameo by Event Horizon's wormhole thing.

[Andy_Tanner]

looks bloody brilliant and it's true, KCET do have a way with the PS2. the character models in Silent Hill 3 are by far the best i've seen, on any platform.