Silent Hill 2 for PlayStation 2

Pros: Incredible art direction; stunning graphics; creepy, authentic horror movie presentation.
Cons: Clunky controls; hokey voice-acting.

Welcome to your worst nightmare! Get a pot of coffee brewing, leave the lights turned on, and prepare yourself for a truly unforgettable survival horror experience. The eerie, seemingly deserted lakeside resort town of Silent Hill is back and deadlier ...

Pros: Beatifully made. An obviously huge amount of effort had been poured in
Cons: Just.... too short, and not enough fun

Silent Hill is one of the biggest names in the survival-horror genre, right up next to Resident Evil. Even in the early days of the PS1 it was a well known and respected game. People went mad for it, because it was a change from the overused yet familiar ...

Pros: Great plot, cinematic, and sound
Cons: Annoying puzzles and backtracking

The Silent Hill series of video games are known for their disturbing atmosphere and ingenius, obscure plots. In fact, I have a feeling that if any of the Silent Hill games were condensed into a paperback, they would do quite well. It's hard to believe ...

Pros: scariest game ever, cool music, character development, level design
Cons: wandering the streets of the town, boring combat, blurry textures

Konami saw what Capcom was doing with "Resident Evil" and the survival-horror genre as a whole ...

Pros: This game still maintains the edge of being a mental thrill ride
Cons: Some of the elements seem taken from horror novels

Last time around my review for Silent Hill was calling it a rip off. Which with all due respects it was a writer (James Mason) knowing how to fire a gun without any prior training. Even the story reeked of taking elements from other stories. Despite,...

Pros: Story, atmosphere, music, sound, graphics, and enemy design, (Pyramid Head) awesome ending!
Cons: Dated stiff controls NEED a face-lift. Puzzles on normal-mode are tedious, parts may require walkthrough.

I'm more in favor of Silent Hill 2 over the classic original because Silent Hill 2, will most likely give the average gamer a good ending. How you play the game will determine your ending. I had not before realized how eerie any horror game could ...

Pros: It is Silent Hill
Cons: Not an improvement as sequels go Seems like they rushed to get it out

This was not a bad game, but it is lacking in several departments. I agree that Silent Hill was a new innovation on a borrowed idea-but it worked. The original game creeped me out. I slept with the bathroom light on every night I played it. The original...

Pros: everything except...
Cons: ...the camera angles, the controls, and the shortness of SH2.

Do you think you’re a man (or a woman)? You aren’t until you have played Silent Hill 2. This video game proves again to non-gamers that movies aren’t the only masterpieces in the world. A couple of games have proven better than movies (with Silent Hill...

Pros: Intense ingrigue into the actual world keeps you edgy for hours to come
Cons: Camera angles are difficult at times, some areas of voice acting

If you ever couldn't wake up from a nightmare, and suddenly all these flying boxes with people in it started coming at you with only the intention to harm, you must have been playing SH2.

You take the role of Harry; Harry's wife died...

Pros: Graphics, creepy atmosphere, great storyline, music.
Cons: Movement is a little clumsy at times, puzzles, while great, lower replay value. Short.

What strikes my fancy a bit more with the Silent Hill series than the better-recognized Resident Evil series is the way the game really gets down to your bones and creeps you out. While zombies chasing you down a ruined city block can certainly give you...

Pros: Is This Game Good....?
Cons: Yes

2.5 weeks until RE
If you know me well, want to know to me, don't know me, don't care to know me, or even if you would rather kill yourself than know me, you'd know that I am very excited about RE for GC.(longest sentence ever) So, after...

Pros: Very creepy, 'nuff said.
Cons: Robotic gameplay (think Resident Evil), sometimes long breaks of no action

DETAILS

1 player
Memory Card (93kb)
Analog Controller
Vibration Function
Pressure Sensitive
Rated Mature for Blood and Gore, Violence

OVERVIEW

First, the story. James...

Pros: Scary as all hell, great graphics, neat story, SCARY AS ALL HELL.
Cons: Wetting your pants, sweaty palms, control could use some help.

If you though that the Resident Evil series was scary (wuss), then do yourself a favor and avoid Silent Hill 2. However, if you had no aversion to any previous survival/horror titles, then this game will likely get you one.

Silent Hill 2...

Pros: The sights, the sounds, the story, the characters and the uniquely chilling atmosphere.
Cons: Ummm... Not for kids... Is that even a con...?

After a raft of painful PS2 disappointments which colminated in the pretentious nonsensical barely interactive philosophical mumbo jumbo packed disaster that was Metal Gear Solid 2 (there's a mouthful for you), the console is in serious need of some bank...

Pros: Great gameplay, excellent music, and everything else.
Cons: None.

I would by lying if I told you that I was a newbie to the Survival Horror genre in general when I first played Silent Hill 2, but I can truthfully say that this game scared the bejeezus out of me in ways that Resident Evil never could. I have been an...