A truely disturbing game
Also in the year 1999 Silent Hill was released on PSone. The game involved a guy named Harry Mason who lost his daughter in Silent Hill. The game had you looking for Harry's daughter but during your search you discover that the town Silent Hill is a evil dark place with sinister secrets deep within is concrete walls.
Now let's get into Silent Hill 2, the game takes place after the original game and in this title you play as a character named James Sunderland. He travels to Silent Hill to find his wife who actually died three years ago. At this point you are probably thinking why he is looking for her if she's dead, doesn't make sense. But in fact it does, he receives a letter three years later from Mary. Of course this makes him wonder if she is still alive. He travels to Silent Hill to find Mary, but he also comes across a variety of monsters that lurk in the darkness of Silent Hill.
This game does a good job of providing a good atmosphere and environment, there's so many times where you are in an area and you hear some strange horrible sound and as you move around a room of area the sound seems to get louder and the suspense becomes more intense. Resident evil can give you a scare every now and again but Silent Hill 2 is a scary game. Sometimes walking around a room or a corridor can be a real frightening experience since the atmosphere is so well done. When you play Silent Hill you I recommend that you play the game at night in a quiet room with little light as the game is scarier when played in this way.
My final verdict of the game is that it's a good scary game with great visuals and atmosphere, although when you are outdoors the looks can be a tad droopy due to the games lazy fog effect. The game is not that long either but there are four endings which do give the game additional lifespan. Silent Hill is a great game that would fit nicely into a horror fans games collection. For those of you that haven't brought Silent Hill 2 yet the platinum version as an extra chapter where you can play as one of the other characters in the game.