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Public release date: 21-Mar-2012
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The Silent Hill series has wound its way through many protagonists, some genuinely interesting and relatable, others notably less so. This time around, inmate Murphy Pendleton is the man destined to enter America?s most haunted town. Pendleton is an inmate at Ryall State Corrections Facility, though what he was convicted for is not immediately evident. His arrival into Silent Hill is an unfortunate accident. During a prison transfer, the bus Pendleton is on crashes, and in his ensuing attempt to escape, he blunders blindly into Silent Hill. This moment is actually one of the weakest in an otherwise well-told story. During the first few hours, it?s hard to tell whether Murphy is actually a likable protagonist. Details about his past ? even the key detail of why he was imprisoned ? are held at arm?s length until several hours in.?The game?s opening sequence, in which Murphy kills a fellow prisoner, seemingly in cold blood, casts further doubt upon his believability as a Silent Hill protagonist. The style of horror the series uses is centered around the player feeling connected to the protagonist, and a convicted felon, especially one as murderous as Murphy initially seems, is hard to relate to. Once you enter Silent Hill, however, and the town begins to taunt Murphy with his own past, necessitating the game?s reveal of key details about his life, the story of Silent Hill: Downpour really finds its legs, and you find yourself finally getting invested. It simply takes a little too long to reach that point.
A Silent Hill game wouldn?t be a Silent Hill game if it didn?t feature clunky combat, and Downpour unfortunately excels all too well at this. Murphy can only carry two weapons ? one melee and one holstered ? with melee weapons degrading over time. In theory, this means that you?ll have to make do with what you can find on short notice. In practice, however, there are only a couple of melee weapons that are really worth carrying. Axes can break the boards off of boarded up doorways, and harpoons (which actually resemble overlong fire pokers) can hook onto ladders to pull them down into arm?s reach. This means that you?ll always want either one or the other in your hand. Weapons constantly spawn in the same locations, so as long as you?re outside, you get a pretty good feel for where the good weapons are.
There are also a wealth of technical issues, the most egregious of which are frequent drops in the frame rate that sometimes devolve into an outright stutter, making the game hiccup as you walk up and down the streets of the town. The camera is also frequently a bother, especially when in combat, as it doesn?t seem to mesh well with the block mechanic. Problems like this are simply not acceptable in current generation gaming. Hardware is sufficiently powerful that frame rate issues are out and out laughable, and by now, third-person games have evolved to the point where problems with the camera are more than just a frustrating issue in the game, they?re an overt slap in the face.