This proves to be challenging but effective though it never quite becomes second nature as it should.
During combat it is necessary to dodge enemies' moves whilst squeezing in attacks, the timing required for the dodges varies depending on enemies. The combat is challenging and hard to get to grips with at first and is very different from anything seen before in the series.Ĭritical aspects to the combat are dodging and evasion which are tricky to get used to. When shooting, an over the shoulder camera takes over and you are given a reticule with which to aim. You have a choice of both heavy and light attacks when using one of the many weapons which can be strung into combos. In order to deal with this the combat system has been improved giving you more precision when shooting and a set of moves for melee fighting. However, Homecoming is a very different beast and it is now virtually impossible to avoid or outrun most enemies.
In fact, it was better to run or attempt to avoid enemies than stand your ground. In previous titles, you were physically weak and combat proved difficult and challenging as you were just a normal person. The most immediately obvious change is the shift in focus of the game itself. Yet, I found myself coming to terms with this and acknowledging that the series was moving in a new direction and at least wasn't stagnating. This is initially hard to swallow as a great fan of those early classics, especially when a lot of the new style seems to be drawn from the film adaption. It soon comes to light that this isn't the classic Silent Hill formula, familiar from the first few games. Thankfully, the developers seem to acknowledge this and treat it as a sort of tutorial which doesn't end up taking too long. The story opens strongly, leaving you with a plethora of questions and virtually no answers in true Silent Hill style.Īs soon as you have begun, you are thrown straight in at the deep end with a sinister opening set in the mandatory hospital level. It quickly becomes apparent that all is definitely not well as the streets are uncharacteristically foggy, his father is missing and his mother is a shell of her former self. This instalment follows Alex Shepherd, an injured soldier, as he returns to his hometown of Shepherds Glen. After a disappointing decline after the previous two iterations, Homecoming sets its sights on rebooting the franchise. More or less a decade ago, I remember sitting with a controller clenched in my hands scared witless but desperate to play on, in the original Silent Hill.
The Silent Hill series has provided some of the most heart-stopping, pant-staining psychological terror ever seen in any form of media. Reviews // 29th Mar 2009 - 14 years ago // By Christopher Wakefield Silent Hill Homecoming
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