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Silent Hill is a single-player action, puzzle, and adventure game developed by Team Silent and published by Konami. The title belongs to the Silent Hill franchise and was released in 1999. It is available on the PlayStation, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable platforms. The game carries a Mature rating from the ESRB.
Publication dates for the game include 1999-01-31, 1999-02-23, 1999-03-04, and 1999-07-16. Various sources provide different ratings for the title. RAWG lists a rating of 4.36 and a Metacritic score of 86. IGDB reports a user rating of 84 based on 576 votes and a critic rating of 82 from one critic.
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Game data
Metacritic 86- Released
- 1999-01-31
- User rating
- 4.36 / 5
- Genres
- Action
- Platforms
- PlayStation
- ESRB
- Mature
via RAWG
Game details · IGDB
Silent Hill is the first installment in the Silent Hill series of psychological survival horror video games. Unlike earlier survival horror games that focused on protagonists with combat training, the main character Harry Mason is an average man. The gameplay consists of combat, exploration, and puzzle-solving. The controller vibration is used to indicate Harry's heartbeat and will vibrate on low health. The player must regularly enter an inventory screen to check Harry's health, use items, and equip different weapons.
- Released
- 1999
- Genres
- Puzzle, Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
- Game modes
- Single player
- Franchise
- Silent Hill
- Developer
- Team Silent
- Publisher
- Konami
Key facts
- Developer
- Team Silent
- Publisher
- Konami
- Director
- Keiichiro Toyama
- Producer
- Gozo Kitao
- Programmer
- Akihiro Imamura
- Writer
- Keiichiro Toyama
- Composer
- Akira Yamaoka
- Series
- Silent Hill
- Platform
- PlayStation
- Release
- NA : February 23, 1999 JP : March 4, 1999 EU : July 16, 1999
- Genre
- Survival horror
- Mode
- Single-player
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Silent Hill is a 1999 survival horror video game developed by Team Silent, a group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, and published by Konami for the PlayStation. It is the first installment in the Silent Hill video game series. The game follows Harry Mason as he searches for his missing adopted daughter in the eponymous fictional American town of Silent Hill. Stumbling upon a cult conducting a rite to revive a deity it worships, he discovers her true origin. Five game endings are possible, depending on the actions taken by the player, including one joke ending.
Unlike earlier survival horror games that used pre-rendering backgrounds, Silent Hill uses a third-person view with real-time rendering of 3D environments. To mitigate the limitations of the console hardware, developers used distance fog and darkness to obscure the graphics and omit pop-ins, which, in turn, helped establish the game's atmosphere and mystery. The player character of Silent Hill is an "everyman", unlike survival horror games focused on protagonists with combat training.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silent Hill” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.