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Scariest part is that other people liked it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 34
Date: May 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I never saw a horror-survival game before, and the idea of a spooky game intrigued me. So, I rented Silent Hill 2. I figured I would be scared out of my mind, battling monsters that pop up out of nowhere, hearing strange spooky sounds, basically playing the game on the edge of my seat. How wrong I was.

First off, this is a sorry attempt at a game. People say this is a puzzle game. In it's loosest definition - yes it is. The same way old games like King's Quest were puzzle games. Basically, all you do is walk. That's it. You walk. Really nothing else. You walk and hope you find something. Then you walk some more and hope that the thing you found works on something else. That's it. There's no complex or intriguing puzzle, it's just search around until you grab something.

That was cool, in the 1980s, when game makers needed to make 50 hour games while only developing a few background scenes and characters. This is the 2000s, and there is no excuse for it now.

So, all you do is walk and fight or dodge an occasional monster. That wouldn't be so bad - if they didn't make walking the most mind numbing experience in the world! To move from one end of the street to the other takes forever. The controls are sticky and clumsy, and the guy is really, really slow. Since there's fog or darkness, you constantly have to check the map to see if heading in the next direction.

How about the environment? Not once was I scared or awed. The graphics are below par for a Playstation 2 game. The fog is cool for a second, but annoys you afterwards. The monsters are a joke. They're little bodies that couldn't frighten a 8 year old girl loaded with caffeine.

Also, the "puzzles" are just plain ridiculous. For example, here's what you have to do when you enter the town. You're just in the town with no explicit instructions. So you wander, then wander some more, then you finally find a key. Big whoop, a key. Then you wander some more to find where the key goes to. So, after playing for an hour, you've opened a gate. In Grand Theft Auto 3, you would have already killed a few people, and completed some fun missions. In ICO, you would have explored a large castle, rescued a girl, and escaped dreadful spirits. This game - you only opened a damn gate. Once you're in the apartment building, you wander around rooms and hallways that look the same. Finally, after another hour, what do you get? A cool new weapon? A great story cut-scene? No - you get a flashlight. What does the flash light do? Reveal new secrets? Find new terrifying monsters? No - you can now read the map of the apartment building. Two and a half of hours of game play, and I've done is enter an apartment building and looked at the map. Bored already?

What's worse is when you need to something to continue the story, but they won't tell you what. This means you could be conceivably stuck at one point for hours because of you didn't do something subtle in a room that is far at the other side of the apartment building. Remember, moving to one side of the apartment building to the other is a major chore in itself. After being stuck for a few hours because I didn't go outside and look in the dumpster and pick up a coin, I knew this game had no hope. I continued on until I reached another apartment building that looked exactly the same. I promptly shut off my PS2 and returned the game to [the store].

Finally, in order to save, you actually have to actively search out the save game places. This was the final straw.

I kind of wanted to see the ending, but then I figured what it was. Here's a spoiler for you. The monsters that roam the town? They're not trying to kill you. Their the dead corpses of the players who were bored to death, warning you to return this game immediatately!

You want a good puzzle game? Get ICO instead. This game just plain [smells]. It stretches a small environment into a major chore in order to squeze some playabilty out of you.

THIS SOME SCARY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 18
Date: October 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is a scary game ohhhhh...... i'm scared can't speak scary scary scary scary oF all the gamesF U CK can YOU........................................TUCAN SAM
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A slow unchallenging scavenger hunt.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: December 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game takes forever to develop any sense of interest for the player. The first hour of the game is nothing more than a directionless, plot less scavenger hunt of unrelated items. Only to be met with a senseless but super easy puzzle and boss.

This game was disappointing. Also the graphics are average. What is most disappointing about the graphics is the overabundant use of fog effects. The player cannot see more than a few feet in front of his face for the entirety of the game. Instead of coming off as creepy, it is a hassle and really eliminates the pleasure of the locations. With the powerful rendering hardware of the PS2 behind it, it seems senseless to clutter the screen with fog ALL the time. Some say that that's ambience. It just is a lack of game development to me. This game is a big disappointment.

It is too slow and disjointed to make any progress in the game yeild any pleasure for the player.

I do not recommend it.

Could have been better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: October 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After seeing the XBOX preview movie for Silent Hill 2, it's apparent how lacking the PS2 version is in the graphics department. If you are picking up an XBOX, you'd be much smarter to wait for the XBOX version. Otherwise, a worthwhile PS2 game.

These other reviewers must work for the company...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: October 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game based on the rave reviews it had received on Amazon. I owned it for about 6 hours and then exchanged it for another game because it was a huge disappointment. There is plenty of "territory" to cover in the game, but it is very limited. Hardly any doors open, you must stay on the beaten path. The "camera angles" are annoying as all hell. It is not "first-person" perspective; instead it is "cinema" style, from all kinds of alternating angles. Makes it disconcerting to say the least when you are trying to control the direction of the little man on the screen.

Let's just say that I have never had such a sinking feeling of regret as when I got home and tries this game. Thank god the store allowed me to exchange an opened video game.

Don't believe the hype! Buy Smuggler's Run or Red Faction instead!

Too weird to be fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: December 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Games out of Japan are getting more and more weird, much like the rest of their culture. I remember the days when Konami games used to be pure fun, but nowadays it's making adventure/action games that are boring to play and difficult to understand. Silent Hill 2 is one of them. It's not as scary as some claim it to be, and definitely not very creative and is quite easy to beat (even without any cheats). Its only good feature is the graphic ambience. Maybe worthy as a rental title...

Konami Drops The Ball on SH2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: January 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Silent Hill 2 is unfortunately a big disappointment. Konami obviously has the potential to make great games for PS2 as evidenced by Metal Gear Solid 2. However, Silent Hill lacks a lot of the key qualities a good game must have. The first major problem is the game's controls. They are the worst controls I have seen for a game in a good long while. SH2 makes poor use of the analog control stick, making directions depend on what direction the character is facing instead of the camera angle. This can be extremely frustrating in games that are not in the first-person, like SH2. The controls basically change whenever your character changes direction, which is something that really stinks during action sequences with monsters.

The characters are also pretty bad. They lack development and depth, making it hard to sympathize with them. While Konami does a nice job making them all look like they came out of a horror movie, that's about as good as it gets. Many times I found myself disliking the main character and almost hoping that he'd die a horrible death at the end of the game.

My reccomendation: Save your money for the next Resident Evil game. Resident Evil games are better in almost every way than SH2. If you haven't already got it, go get Resident Evil: Code Veronica for PS2. You'll be a lot happier.

Most Booooring Game Ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: January 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst games I've ever played. Sure, graphics and sound f/x are awesome, but gameplay is boring and even desperate at times. If you like wasting your time getting lost over and over searching for items and locations this is the game for you, otherwise just borrow it from a friend and see for yourself how bad it is.

disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: October 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

sh2 lived up to its predecessor in that they are both pretty sorry games...not user friendly...stick with RE and you can't go wrong

terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 16
Date: November 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i played and finished silent hill, even though it was a painfully bad game. but i heard a lot of buzz for this and figured that konami might have gotten this one right...well, too bad for me. thank god for e-bay because at least i was able to unload this pile of dung. don't waste your time. play resident evil instead.

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