Silent Hill has never been about action or running around shooting things; doing that would effectively destroy what made Silent Hill so darn creepy and great. In many ways, RE4 proved that you can’t have it both ways; the game simply didn’t have the atmosphere of the previous games and the gameplay got incredibly repetitive. In my humble opinion, I think the major reason for RE4′s drastic changes was because Capcom was in a financial slump at the time due to a string of high-profile flops and needed something that would appeal to Joe Average more than their fanbase. Not to mention Mikami’s less-than-intelligent prospect of releasing the remake of Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero only on the GameCube also contributed to the misguided notion that people were getting tired of the series when, the low sales of those two games can be attributed to being on a third-place machine.

I know that Silent Hill 0rigins is using an over-the-shoulder perspective, but I’m banking on it purely as a design choice considering the game is being released on a handheld. I still doubt that Konami would be silly enough to blantantly rip-off RE4 when each and every Silent Hill game has sold quite well on its own. I doubt money would be an issue since they also create the Metal Gear games, which is practically a liscense to print money.

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I agree with you about the movie’s music. Particularly the SH3 theme a the end. But I have to admit that I was loving the use of the ambient music throughout the movie in corresponding scenes from the game. It was one of those nice touches that really show how rabid a fan Christopher Gans is of the series.

Interesting sidenote: I read that Gans had to beg the people at Konami to let him make the movie, he so wanted to make an adaptation of it.

I wrote my own review of the movie here.

The “house” bit in the title is just not right. They really should have stuck with Silent Hill.

No games moved me and freaked me out at the same time like the SH series. I love the soundtracks.

Can’t wait to see the movie myself.