Silent Hill 3 is more about coolness and mood than great game play.
User Rating: 7.6 | Silent Hill 3 PC
Survival horror is interesting since it is considered a genre of games, but there are very few ones that actually fit in it, and even fewer game series. Never the less, Silent Hill and its third part is in there. It's a cool casual game, but it never feels like anything to call home to your parents about. Game play-wise it's basically running away from monsters, since you for the most time have too little ammunition to deal with them in a more, pardon the expression; USA-oriented way. Also you solve puzzles and so on. Graphics are not exciting by today's standards but fairly nice-looking. The music is great and raises my score for the sound a lot. Like other Silent Hill-games the story is very strange and hopeless to understand. Add to this so-so voice-acting and silly, engrish-smelling, often unintentionally funny, dialogue. Not one second did I find this game scary. Konami fails miserably there. The monsters are funny-looking and strange when they're not ripped off from zombie-movies (Return of the Living Dead; the split dogs). The game only manages to be vaguely creepy and has a sort of sad blues-like atmosphere. The main character Heather is a cardboard cut-out of a person, as deep as a teaspoon. She rivals Gordon Freeman when it comes to bland main characters. The idea of playing as a 17-year old innocent teenage girl with all her frailness and vulnerability is great, but unfortunately she lacks the charisma and interesting characteristics of say Resident Evil-characters like Jill Valentine and Leon S. Kennedy. The only upside i can find of having Heather so unmotivated is that you can read a lot into her, but that's all. What actually makes the game good and what makes you want to come back for more is extremely hard to explain. You more or less have to experience it for yourself in order to find out. There is a sense of casual coolness that permeates the experience and just walking around exploring day-to-day vistas is in a weird way just plain fun provided you are a fan of the genre. 
