While the namesake of the series is set, Silent Hill 2 is not a direct continuation of the events and characters in the game Silent Hill first. However, the centers of James Sunderland, who enters the city after writing a letter to his deceased wife, and said she is waiting in their "special place" in Silent Hill. Maria, who resembles her, except for a provocative and held his personality, he is looking for her and discovers the truth about his death. additional material in Re-Releases and ports contain a desire to meet a sub-scenario, which focuses on Mary in front of her and James was born.
Silent Hill 2, a third-person perspective and gameplay focus more on finding items and solving puzzles than fighting, like the first Silent Hill. Psychological aspects such as the gradual disappearance of the letters of Mary were added to the game. More humanoid than their counterparts in the previous game, were some of the monsters, like a mirror image of the subconscious James developed. Real life references to history, films and literary works can be found in the game.
Silent Hill 2 was well received by audiences and critics. Less than a month after its release in North America, Japan and Europe have sold over a million copies, with the largest sales in North America. English critics praised the atmosphere, graphics, history, and the monster design Silent Hill 2, but criticized the controls to operate as heavy. Silent Hill 2 was released on lists several critics' top for its history and use of metaphors, psychological horror and taboo subjects.
The objective of Silent Hill 2 is the player's character, James Sunderland, the city filled with monsters leadership Silent Hill, as he seeks his wife lost. The game features a third-person view, with different camera angles for different regions of the map rather than just keep the players see the game from behind the back of James. There are no head-up display, to check their condition, location and objects, the player must go to the menu play pause to check his condition. The cards are collected throughout the game, and can be read when the light is sufficient or if a flashlight is on James. James updated the corresponding maps on locked doors, signs and barriers to reflect. James will also write the contents of all documents for the future.
Much of the gameplay of navigation through the city and searching for keys or other objects around doors or other obstacles, dealing with less concentration on the assassination of enemies. Sometimes puzzles presented to interpret often with puzzles for the player to the left. The difficulty of the enemies and puzzles are independent of the players before the game together. James keeps a radio with him, warning of the presence of creatures by emitting static, allowing it to detect, even through the thick fog. It will also nod towards a point near or monsters. The standard controller for Silent Hill 2, James is in the direction that, before, when the player tilts up stick. In addition, there are six weapons available: melee weapons by three and three firearms, two melee weapons (chainsaw and sprays hyper) released during the replays. During the game, James can find healthy fillings such as first aid kits, health drinks and ammunition.
See also: List of monsters from Silent Hill and the list of characters in Silent Hill
Although not a direct result of the events and characters from the first Silent Hill game Silent Hill is taking the second place in the series' namesake foggy city, which is located in the northern United States. More a physical location, the town of Silent Hill on the psyche and its visitors is, ultimately, alternative versions of the city, which differ according to the character. James Sunderland is the protagonist and player character of Silent Hill 2 next in the city after receiving a letter from his late wife Mary. While exploring the city, he met Mary, Mary is very similar except for a provocative personality and clothing; Angela Orosco, a dark and cynical 19-year-old ran around Silent Hill, so they can see his mother, Eddie Dombrowski, who has a darker side of his easy-going personality, and Laura, one of eight who befriends Marie during her stay in the same hospital.
Upon arrival in Silent Hill, James Rosewater Park, where he met Marie, she has never met or seen Mary and how she decided to research claims afraid he may, to follow him. In the search for Laura to the hospital, attacked James and Mary are Pyramid Head monster, and Maria is only him, as James escapes death, he always takes his work, Mary, and decides to Lakeview Hotel shabby, where he and Mary spent her vacation. En route, Mary James inexplicably found alive, safe and locked in a prison cell. She greets him with a lascivious pose, says ignorance of their previous meeting and discussed the elements of James and Mary in the past that only Mary would know it. James then sets off to find a way of Mary of the portable version, and there only to find their dead.
Travel deep into the underground catacombs, Angela James saved by a monster they call "Papa", she admits that her father sexually abuse have used, while in a newspaper article that James is implied that his father 's Angela killed. James still faces a gun wielding, violent Eddie, the mutilation murder of a tyrant and his dog before fleeing in Silent Hill admits, James kills in self-defense during the attack. Mary returns to a sheet of writing paper, question whether James actually received, or if the letter was in his head.
At the Lake View Hotel, located in an old home video of James that was him on his dying wife smothered with a pillow, much to the horror of Laura, his friendship with Mary, his time in the hospital. At this point in the game, said the letter from Mary disappears completely from the envelope. In another room, a final meeting with Angela sees her renunciation of life and not their fault either face. She walks into the flames of a fire stair and can not be seen again. James meets later, two Pyramid Heads, with Mary, who rose again as she is killed again, James acknowledges that Pyramid Head was created because he needed someone to punish. The cover of Marie eventually disappears and the two leaders Pyramid impale themselves with their own spears. James made his way to the roof, finally reaching what appears to be Mary. Is it depending on the choice of the player during the game, he can either Maria or Mary, disguised as her.
Silent Hill 2 includes six different endings, and held their official statement from Konami of canonicity is ambiguous. In the "off", James has one last meeting with Mary, full read his letter and left the city with Laura, while "water" does James commit suicide by running his car into the lake in "Rebirth", James Mary plans to re-gathered to revive the objects hidden in the game. However, the "Mary" Maria end up like the woman on the roof, which has not forgiven James for his murder. After their defeat, James rejects it as a hallucination, then leaves town with the inexplicably resurrected Mary, the cough begins.
The other two are "joke" endings to replay the games: the first, called "dog", James has discovered, appear to have a normally locked door, a Shiba Inu is in control all the events of the game from a video mixer, and the second is a continuation of the UFO at the end of the first game in which James is abducted by aliens with the first game, the protagonist, Harry Mason.
Born of desire
Born of a desire is a side story script in special editions and reprints of the game where the player takes control of Maria, just before she and James meet in Toluca Lake. After waking up in the sky of the nightclub with a gun and suicide, she decides to go and find someone. His travels eventually bring them to the Baldwin apparently abandoned house, where she hears the voice of its owner, Ernest Baldwin. Mary is relieved at first, local people have found another, but Ernest refused to talk Maria into the room, where he rented, and will not be with her through the closed door. After Marie has a number of tasks for him, and he spent the anniversary of her daughter Amy, Ernest advises him about James, which he describes as a "bad person". Mary is the door of the room is empty and Ernest. Leave, she again contemplated suicide. After stressing the gun at her head, she suddenly threw on a nearby wall, and whispered to appoint James walks in the mist waiting for his arrival.
Development
Influences and Design
Silent Hill 2 Silent was the team developed a manufacturing group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. The story was Takayoshi Sato Director of CGI, which is based on the novel Crime and Punishment, designed with individual members of the team together on the actual scenario. Writing the most important was directed by Hiroyuki Sato and Owaku, the last dialogue provided for female characters. The atmosphere of the game is very similar to the first game, including abandoned children and / or decaying city views and the persistent fog covered the streets, but he was given a twist psychological. An example is the letter of Mary, which gradually disappears during the game show how Konami later confirmed that the letter was just another part of James James hallucinations. The hotel also hijacked, as it was three years ago in his true form of a structure essentially empty. During the game, James jumps the holes down in the symbolic sense, and can open a door on the floor, suggesting that the reality he has never lived. Other tests found, a psychological impact on the game belong to induce placement Mary dress on a mannequin in the room where James found the flashlight and modeling at least one corpse in the city, according to James.
The monster in the game, and several humanoid in design than their counterparts in the previous game, have been recognized, for the most part are like a mirror image of the subconscious James developed. At least two creatures, the "Mannequin" and "Bubble Head Nurse" recognized by the sexual stimulation was developed in the spirit, a mirror image of James's sexual desires and possibly the loss during the illness of Mary. Pyramid Head is acknowledged, were placed on the executioner's history fictional town based, and should be a punisher for James. Two exceptions to this theme are the "Abstract Daddy", a reflection of the subconscious mind and memories of Angela and the "Creepers", which can also be seen in the first game.
Silent Hill 2 also contains some references to real events. In the original script, developers designed the Mary and James in double figures: Mary is a different personality was "Mary," a reference to Mary Jane Kelly, Jack the Ripper, the latest victim, while James was "" Joseph, "a reference to one of the suspects Jack the Ripper. Other observers have claimed that Mary was copied from the performance of Christina Aguilera held at the Teen Choice Awards 1999. Eddie Dombrowski said the actor Eddie Murphy, given in the early stages of production, when Eddie was originally developed with a pleasant personality optimistic. The name is derived from Angela Orosco Angela Bennett, the name of the protagonist in the movie The Net, and Laura's novel is not a language but a cry of Richard D'Ambrosio.
Developers satire of arms in American society by James to find a handgun in a basket. There are also indications that the layout of Silent Hill on the city of San Bruno , California, was based to some extent.
Audio
Akira Yamaoka has composed the music for Silent Hill 2 in his house, took three days to write the music of Yamaoka "Theme of Laura," the main theme of Silent Hill 2, by combining "a sad melody" and "a high point ", although he does not believe a melody to be the" most important "elements of a song. He wanted to arouse the reader's emotion with music. Silent Hill 2 makes extensive use of sound effects shouting, traces of broken glass. Play fifty responsible for sound effects, Yamaoka wanted to surprise the reader with the different sounds and create a destabilizing. He also took the occasional silence, said that "moments of silence choices is another way of producing sounds."
Konami Silent Hill 2 Original Soundtracks in Japan October 3, 2001. Eight-track ("Theme of Laura", "Moon Zero", "Love Psalm", "True", "Promise", "Fermata in Mistic Air", "Laura plays the piano" and "Overdose Delusion") published Playstation Portable in the 2006 release Silent Hill experience.
Press Releases
Silent Hill 2 was the first on the PlayStation 2 in North America, 24th September 2001, at the 27th in Japan in September 2001 and released in Europe November 23, 2001. The original European and a second disc: a "making of" DVD with a trailer, a gallery and a documentary about the title of the development. The revised version of the game was brought back to the PS2 and charged off as both a director in the "Greatest Hits" and "Platinum" label, depending on location. The newly released two versions contain an additional term of a UFO and Born scenario wishes. In 2006, Konami re-released Silent Hill 2 PS2 indirect, with its suites, Silent Hill 3 and Silent Hill 4: The Room, like The Silent Hill Collection, and again in 2009.
Ports of the game were also released. Konami has released the Xbox port in North America December 20, 2001, the 22nd in Japan in February 2002 and 14 in Europe in October 2002. Each region has a different subtitle: The port was subtitled Xbox Saigo no Uta (最期 の 詩, literally "Poem of the last minute"?.) In Japan, Restless Dreams in North America and fears interior Europe. Creature Labs focused on PC Silent Hill 2, Konami has released in December 2002. The PC connection is synonymous with the port of the PS2 and Xbox versions budget-born and has the desire and the additional extension. Additional features include the ability to quicksave and trailer for Silent Hill 3
Reception
Silent Hill 2 was well received, sold over a million copies within one month of its release in North America, Japan and Europe, with more units sold in North America. From Silent Hill 2 Greatest Hits as a game has re-released.
Criticism of the game was generally positive. Note aggregation site evaluation game shows an average score of 85.77% for the PS2 version, for 82.40% and 70.33% Xbox version for the PC version. Rating aggregation site Metacritic shows an average score of 89 out of 100 for the PS2 version, 84 100 for the Xbox, and 70 100 for the
PC version.
Reviews of the original game PS2 has been extremely positive. Even though there be that the game "does not break any molds or revolutionize the survival-horror genre in some way", IGN praised the "strange, disturbing, even a little depressing" story ", respectable, credible" dubbing, designs scary monsters, disturbing sound effects and "stunning" graphics of the game. IGN said that while the general gameplay has remained largely unchanged from the first Silent Hill, it was improved by a better camera settings and controls. GameSpot Silent Hill 2 described as "more beautiful, more intelligent, but less convincing than the original game," praised the monster is growing concern, "impressive" graphics, sound files, more consistent, but less convincing plot. According to GameSpot, the action violated "difficult writing" voice and the monsters are not as scary as Silent Hill. Ben Croshaw of The Escapist game cited as personal favorites, and called it "raised the bar to tell stories of video games and the atmosphere. "
Reactions to the Xbox port was also positive. GameSpot asked the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions were largely similar, except for that of a Wish Side Story on the Xbox, which he described as "a worthwhile extra" that has little to add game or help better explain the plot of Silent Hill 2 PC port found birth has not been as well received. Reviewers criticized the weird camera angles, "dead" word, "boring" gameplay and combat, difficulty controlling the character and general adjustment. Conversely, the connection to a computer GameSpy found a whole as "[a] Translation fantastic game from Konami elegant and scary survival horror."
Silent Hill 2 was released on several critics lists "for its history and use of metaphors, psychological horror, and taboo subjects. It No. 1 on the list of X-Play "Scariest Games of All Time" in 2006. Lists IGN Editors' Choice are created as one of the top five video games of horror to 2000 in 2009, and one of the greatest twentieth PlayStation 2 game of all time. In addition, in 2010 it ranked as 54th in IGN's "Top 100 PS2 games." In 2008, GamesRadar on the list of fifteen "Best Video Game Stories Ever", which he describes as "the punishment n is not a story adapted easily. "In 2009, he was ranked fifteenth Destructoid on its list of" Top 50 video games of the Decade "and notes that" memorable for the introduction of the head of the game Video iconic pyramid of character. "In the same year, she Wired.com listed as influential eleventh game of the decade, the focus on psychological horror, and exploration of taboo subjects as incest and domestic violence, rather than Gore.
Heritage
The events and characters of Silent Hill 2 were described in subsequent installments of the series. If the player has stored data from Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3 Heather protagonist of clogged toilets in the other dimension of the gallery to investigate, and the player can prompt the blockade similar to the decision to remove an option in Silent Hill second Unlike James, Heather, but in the end refuse to ask, "Who could do something so disgusting to think" James also makes an appearance at the end of "UFO" joke of the game. Silent Hill 4: The Room revealed that James had disappeared when he went to Silent Hill. It also leads to his father, Frank Sunderland, the superintendent of the building South Ashfield Heights apartment in the fictional town of Ashfield. The seventh, Silent Hill:
Shattered Memories, will stop briefly Cheryl James Mason therapy session in the "UFO" joke at the end. After his departure, Dr. Kaufmann said that James is one of the few patients therapy and noted that Marie has not been seen since some time.