Silent Hill 4 The Room
by Konami
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Product Summary
Brand: KonamiRelease Date: 2004-09-07
Platform: Xbox
Model: XBKONA 083717300311
Publisher: Konami
Product features:
- A new Silent Hill adventure, where terror comes to your room
- Horrific new monsters, including spirits that can attack through walls
- Expansive areas to explore, including a forest, prison, and hotel
- A cast of mysterious new characters
Video Game Reviews of Silent Hill 4 The Room
Customer Review: Sadly, the X-Box port does little to make the experience any better than it was on the PS2
Summary: 2 Stars
I remember when Silent Hill 2 got an X-Box port as Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams and I'll tell you right now, I was undeniably happy about it . Not only did I lack a PS2 at the time, but I had played a copy of the PS2 original after playing the X-Box port of Silent Hill 2 and found that the X-Box port was aesthetically better than the original while the game on either system was and still is excellent.
Unfortunately, that was with Silent Hill 2, only. Silent Hill 4 does little to make itself stand out as an X-Box port and does very little to improve on its aesthetics, something that I feel it was in dire need of along with more competent writers to execute the story in something other than a dull, drab, boring, anti-climactic tone with most of the main characters, heroic or not, featuring the depth of a shoe string, boring, hackneyed atmospherics and shoddy game design choices.
The only difference between the PlayStation 2 and X-Box version is that the X-Box version forces you to save games on the X-Box Hard Disk; you can't save copies of Silent Hill 4 on the portable Memory Units and you can't copy ANY of the saves you make. Yeah, not only does the game try to bore you to death with its apathy and lack of immersion, but it also keeps you from storing save games on something other than the console's hard drive. I guess the only plus side is that the save game image on the X-Box has The Eye of Watchfulness rather than one of the Toadstool monsters writhing around in front of a bright pink background.
That's the only change. It's graphically the same, the minimalist real-time menu system works the same, the sounds are all laughable and pathetic, there's no other character you can play as (something I would've payed good money to do just to spend fifteen minutes playing as someone other than a living piece of drywall in a nappy wig and blue jeans), no different lighting effects. Just a save-game nit-pick.
You're still playing the same boring game trying to pass as horrific when you have to deal with idiotic invincible enemies such as ghosts, Ringu rip-offs, rolling wheelchairs and a gun totting hippy in a trench coat trying to come off as a serial killer. You're still cycling through five different drab, well lit levels that takes the effects of 'subtle atmospherics' and drives them so hard and heavy into the game it's difficult to say your even having fun much less getting terrified, you're still playing as some mutt-faced, emotionless drone who wiggles his butt every time he arms himself and strafes around an enemy letting him mumble ineffective and awkward dialogue and grope any and all blood encrusted women he stumbles across who just so happen to be more underdressed and sexy than the average stripper, you still only get a pocketful of firearms that do little to keep the enemies down, you're still reading memos written by idiots who forsake continuity and factual errors for the sake of sounding scary in that cheesy, JC haunted house kind of way, you're still thumbing your way through a game that hardly even tries to be dramatic or immersive until the last three minutes before the final boss fight and you've still got endings and replay value about as pointless as a pair of scissors without a screw.
The game is still terrible in its own broken right. If anything, I can recommend you get the X-Box version of this game for two reasons:
A) because you don't own a PlayStation 2
and
B) Because a cheap game deserves a cheap price.
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