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2009.06.30
| Silent Hill:
Shattered Memories - interviews with
Tomm Hulett |
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Silent
Hill: Shattered Memories
producer Tomm Hulett has been
quite generous for the
interviews lately. First of all
he
answered the questions of
Silent Hill Heaven forum's
visitors, then
chatted with the Joystiq
reporter and finally
was interviewed by the Game
Informer magazine. |
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2009.06.14
| Silent Hill:
Shattered Memories - Destructoid
interview |
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2009.06.13
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories -
best Wii game of E3 2009 |
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IGN
choose best Wii games at E3 2009
in various categories and Silent
Hill: Shattered Memories won in
three of them: Best Graphics
Technology, Best Adventure Game
and Wii Game Of The Show. IGN
noted amazing use of tech,
game's psych profile, branching
paths during walkthrough and
other features, which allowed to
beat other games at the show.
See the full list
of nominees and winners
here. |
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2009.06.13
| Silent Hill:
Shattered Memories 1UP interview and
preview |
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2009.06.04
| Silent Hill:
Shattered Memories - news from E3 2009 +
new trailer |
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2009.05.29
| Silent Hill:
Shattered Memories teaser trailer and
new screenshots |
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2009.05.23
| Silent Hill section update |
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Silent Hill section has been
fully updated. Elaborate
walkthrough, complete lists of
weapons and items with all the
extras, descriptions of
creatures with combat
strategies, all memos and maps
from the game - all this is now
available in the section. Also
updated arts gallery. Again, I
express my gratitude to Conquerer. |
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2009.05.22
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Interview with Takayoshi Sato |
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Core
Gamers interviewed Takayoshi
Sato, a member of the famous
Team Silent and a person who was
in charge of designing the
characters and cinematic visuals
for the first two Silent Hill
games. In the pretty lengthy
interview Sato-san talked about
how he began working for Konami,
the first game he worked on -
Sexy Parodius, his moments of
glory - Silent Hill and Silent
Hill 2, why he left Konami
afterwards and came into working
on serious games. Read the
interview on the
Core Gamers site or
alternatively in the new
Creators section
here. |
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2009.05.17
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Silent Hill 3 Special Edition |
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Silent Hill 3 Special Edition is
a fan made DVD by Jer.
"This is not the game, nor is it
some nonexistent second sequel
to the movie. This is, in fact,
a professional quality capture
of the game, formatted to DVD
video. The entire plot line is
present, as well as many extras
that you can't see unless you
play it through several times.
So burn this to a DVD and watch
it on your big screen! Please
see the readme in the ISO for
more information. This is the
first of what I hope to be many
similar projects.
If you are a fan of the series,
give it a try!
P.S. Contact me at
silenthilltheater@gmail.com
to let me know what you think of
my project."
Download Silent Hill 3 Special
Edition
via torrent from Mininova
(you may leave your responses
there as well). Visit
project's page for more
information and screenshots. |
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2009.05.05
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
producer interview |
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Destructoid has published a
new interview with Silent Hill:
Shattered Memories producer Tomm
Hulett. In the interview Hulett
talks about the decision to
recreate the story of the first
Silent Hill game and not
producing a completely new
story. He also calms down the
hardcore fans by saying,
SH: SM will not fit into the
canonical Silent Hill timeline
and take place in its own
universe similar to the Silent
Hill movie and comics. Besides
that developers are not gonna
exploit Pyramid Head as opposed
to the infamous Silent Hill:
Homecoming. Read the full
interview here:
Destructoid interview: Silent
Hill producer Tomm Hulett |
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2009.05.03 |
Scarlet - Silent Hill: Homecoming
resource viewer |
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Scarlet is a resource viewer for
the Windows/PC version of Silent
Hill: Homecoming. The tool is
capable of viewing models/textures,
playing sounds, and viewing most
of the other game and media
formats contained in PAK
archives of the game. It also
exports all of the main media
data to friendly media formats (sounds
to .ogg, models to WaveFront .obj,
textures to .dds, and so on).
Download it from the author's
site:
Rich Whitehouse - Scarlet |
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2009.04.21
| Silent Hill 2 section update |
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Silent Hill 2 section has been
completely updated. Now you can
find there a detailed
information on the game
characters and creatures with
combat strategies, detailed
walkthrough with all puzzles'
solutions, complete list of
in-game weapons, items and
memos, descriptions of endings
and extras as well as helpful
instructions how to achieve a
ten star ranking. Special thanks
to Andrew Haffenden aka
Conquerer for letting use his
wonderful Silent Hill 2 FAQ.
In
addition to this, in the section you
can find
various Silent Hill 2 videos,
which you can either download or watch on our newly created
YouTube channel. Join us and
watch videos from past and
present Silent Hill games. |
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2009.04.14
| Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
previews and interviews |
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2009.04.10
| Silent Hill: Shattered Memories -
Konami Gamers Night
news |
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A recent
Konami event brought us some
coverage of Silent Hill:
Shattered Memories. An IGN
journalist visited company's
California office and watched a
15-minute demo of the game. Read
the preview full of delight
here. He also
interviewed game's lead
designer Sam Barlow, director
Mark Simmons and Konami producer
Tomm Hulett. In addition to this
IGN
presented nine new screenshots.
Here's a summary of facts in the
article from
GoNintendo:
- Harry has crashed on the side
of the road while in a snowstorm
- Harry’s daughter is missing,
and he sets off into Silent Hill
to find her
- game kicks off with in a
psychiatrist’s office where we
hear of a new patient arriving.
After that exchange, we see
Harry fall from his car into the
snow just after his crash. We
then flash back to the office
with the psychiatrist talking to
this new patient
- camera is first person during
the office segment. You can look
around while the psychiatrist
talks
- you must fill out a
psychiatric profile
- when asked questions by the
psychiatrist, you can wave your
Wiimote up and down/left to
right to answer
- after this exchange you flash
back to the accident with Harry
calling for his daughter
- almost every decision you make
impacts the game. For example,
if you first choose to look at
your map or a girlie calendar on
the wall, the game makes note of
this decision
- an example of early changes:
as you fill out your profile,
the game will present you with
different situations. When
walking through town, you might
see an open bar or an open diner.
These things change as you make
more and more choices
- minus button to bring up your
phone, which houses all sorts of
important information
- use phone to dial, take pics,
text, check voicemail, browse
phonebook, changes options and
settings (whose viewer shows a
slowed framerate a la iPhone)
- take pictures of the
environment to reveal new
details: take a picture of a
swingset with no one around it,
look at the pic to see your
daughter sitting on the swing
- pictures can cue voicemails
and other occurrences
- game world changes from Silent
Hill to evil Silent Hill right
before your eyes
- no longer a hellish look…things
are more ‘icy’
- static on your phone still
clues you in as it did in past
games
- stunning flashlight effects
- Nunchuk to walk, hold Z to run,
C for 180-turn, A for actions,
B-trigger plus A to pick items
up, D-pad for phone, D-pad down
to view behind you
- intelligent enemies will hunt
you down, talk to other enemies
to find you, open doors and
climb fences
- one again, no weapons
- Harry talks to himself
throughout the game to rehash
info
- no load times
- camera filter returns from
previous games
- flashlight will even light up
snowflakes
- Wii is the lead platform |
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2009.04.06 |
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
official announcement |
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Konami have released an official
press release announcing that
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
will be released this autumn.
Besides coming out on Nintendo
Wii, the game will also be
released for PSP (PlayStation
Portable) and PlayStation 2 at
the same time. You can read the
full press release
here. Here also the logo and
the arts of the game's hero,
Harry Mason:
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2009.04.02 |
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
for Wii and PSP |
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Silent Hill for Wii is
confirmed (according to the
information on the developers
site the project is also
being developed for PSP). The newest issue of
the Nintendo Power magazine
features a detailed article on
the new installment with
screenshots and interviews with
Akira Yamaoka (yes, he's
composing the music for the project)
and design team members Mark
Simmons, Sam Barlow and Tom
Hulett. As explains producer
Tomm Hulett: "This is a
reimagining of the first Silent
Hill. It’s not a remake or a
port. That’s an important
distinction. It really feels
like a new game. The characters
play different roles, things
don't necessarily happen in the
same order, and the story is
taken in lots of new directions.
You still play as Harry Mason,
you're still looking for your
daughter, and you'll see
familiar elements, but they're
all twisted to betray your
expectations." Here are some
brief details from the article:
- Game story will depend a lot
on your actions and decisions.
You may see or not some scenes,
meet characters in different
places, and even the look of
monsters will vary for different
players.
- There will be new characters
in the game like a psychiatrist
Dr. Kasks.
- Control Stick is used to steer
the hero's movements while Wii
Remote is used to aim the
flashlight.
- There is no combats - you can
only escape from the monsters.
During the getaway you can barge
through doors, climb over
fences, jump through windows,
and so on. You can also
barricade doors behind you. In
addition to this you can use flares to frighten
monsters off.
- There's a way trough every
locked door.
- The only tool in the game is
Harry's cell phone used for map
access, taking pictures, writing
notes and making phone calls.
And
here are the scans of the
magazine article:
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