Silent Hill HD Collection (Import)

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So then, Xbox One owners now have the opportunity to experience one undeniable horror masterpiece and one less dazzling, but still excellent game. Which would all be wonderful if it wasn't for the fact that both remasters in the Silent Hill HD Collection are exceptionally poor efforts, and far from the best way to sample a legendary series. The Silent Hill HD Collection, a compilation of the high-definition remastered video game ports of Silent Hill 2 (2001) and Silent Hill 3 (2003), spent more than two years in development. [1] Silent Hill 2 follows widower James Sunderland as he journeys through the fog-shrouded town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his dead wife. [2] Silent Hill 3, in contrast, is a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill game, centering on Heather Mason, a teenager who finds herself entangled in a plot to revive an evil god. Both games belong to the survival horror genre and as such, their gameplay elements overlap. Access to the various environments within the games' worlds is limited, and progression through a particular area or building generally entails finding the relevant keys, which are sometimes obtained after solving a puzzle; puzzles often take the form of riddles and sometimes consist of gathering various items to help solve them. " Health" restoratives and a limited range of weapons and ammunition to fight off various hostile creatures can be obtained. Both games have multiple endings available. [3] The Silent Hill HD Collection featured 720p resolution, a 16:9 aspect ratio, a frame rate of 30 frames per second, achievements for Xbox Live, and trophies for PlayStation Network. [4] [5] A comparison of the original PlayStation 2 version of Silent Hill 2 (right) and its remastered PlayStation 3 port before the patch (left)

a b c Martin, Liam (March 31, 2012). " 'Silent Hill HD Collection' review". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on October 20, 2019 . Retrieved October 20, 2019. a b c d e Minkley, Johnny (March 30, 2012). "Silent Hill HD Collection Review". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on May 31, 2012 . Retrieved February 5, 2014.One of the biggest complaints from the time was of terrible frame rate drops and stuttering, trouble with the audio and particularly the lip syncing; some even wrote that thinning out the fog in the second game revealed more of the game’s technical limitations that couldn’t be swept under the carpet. On the plus side, less fog did mean that textures became visible that couldn’t be seen in the original games, including some with clues about the various puzzles, so every cloud and all that. When I did eventually buy it I was more than happy with my experience, as it recreated the games that I remembered playing from my youth, and I do love a trip down Memory Lane. And Steam is a bunch of old toilet and malware too, while I'm at it. I'd like to line up everyone who works for them and crowbar them up like a ten foot haunted puppet. Bet THEY don't have a (B) panic button... James Voice Actor Speaks Out About Silent Hill 2 HD Re-Casting". The Gaming Liberty. June 10, 2019. Archived from the original on June 8, 2012 . Retrieved October 19, 2019.

Silent One wrote:I'm rather tired of listening to people constantly say how the game is crap. The game is DIFFERENT. If you don't like different that's fine, but there's nothing ACTUALLY wrong with it. It works just fine.

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s Silent Hill 2 has suffered the most in transition. I'll leave the technical dissection to the more capable hands of Digital Foundry (who will look at the much-derided PS3 release, as well as the 360 version reviewed here, in a future article) - but the main problem is that they've buggered up the fog. In a blog post in July 2020, Microsoft said: "It's our intent for all Xbox One games that do not require Kinect to play on Xbox Series X at the launch of the console."

None of the mishaps I've described were game-ruining for me (note: I haven't played the collection on PS3, which reportedly comes off worse). But we really should expect better treatment for titles of this calibre. Nothing better sums up the sheer laziness of it all than a glaring typo scrolling past in the new credits. As an example, here's how to buy Daytona USA on Xbox One, Series X and Series S using the old store: I want to play through a series I'm enjoying, and a good game from the series will support latter games, even though you may not like them in their entireity. For goodness' sake I even played Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty through a couple of times and that IS a bunch of crap... And the controls even WORK on that one!During the production of the Silent Hill HD Collection, senior associate producer Tomm Hulett was the target of harassment by a small portion of the Silent Hill fanbase, being blamed as the source of everything perceived as wrong in the series, including lost source code, the inclusion of new voice acting in the Silent Hill HD Collection, and that Silent Hill: Book of Memories was a dungeon crawler. [12] Release [ edit ]

Only SH fans have I witnessed that will proclaim they despise an entry in the series BUT STILL play it. It just boggles my mind man.Silent Hill HD Collection is a product that screams "will this do?", when it should be a loud celebration of two gaming greats. And yet in spite of all that, the games themselves have aged far better than I would have expected, their foreboding atmosphere and striking imagery as impressive now as they were over a decade ago. Support for existing saves (through the Cloud), DLC, Achievement progress, and the original dashboard The experience varies from game to game. According to Digital Foundry's report, all titles receive some baseline improvements - such as the elimination of screen tear "completely on every title" - through to any disc access operations tending to "have less of an impact on performance", meaning Mass Effect's elevator load times and Fallout 3's hitches are reduced.