Silent Hill 4: The Room

graphics are ugly, game starts off in a room where character can only move 2 steps in any direction and the hit-boxes for item is way off, quit the first time without even getting out of the first room, I started it again and made it out of the apartment and through my first battle with some dogs but the graphics, controls and camera angles sapped all joy from it.

Okay...this might seem like a lazy cash-in with no enhancement over the 2004 release but two things to consider. Konami has probably lost the source code like they did with SH2 so can't update it, plus this might be a gauge for a potential Silent Hill games in the future.

This is an examplified data dump for money. Zero effort to modernize. Controller buttons all messed up. Awful graphic filter. No upscale texture resolution. This is a total trainwreck. On the Playstation 2? Oh yeah, this is one of the best Silent Hill games, no doubt. The most disturbing and unsettling atmosphere, excellent music and bizarre story. Simply put, it's the technical aspect of this re-release (not even a remaster or remake) that rubs me the wrong way. Did anyone at GOG even test this? It feels like a joke.

You'd think for a game based on his cult movie this game would at least have the cast in it... also they didn't even get the spiral stair case in the middle of the apartment into the game...

This game was a game developed by another studio, Konami bought it, slapped Silent Hill on it and phoned it in. Game is like forbidden siren, linear "levels" that are not connected and only one ore two are actually in Silent Hill. You can't drop items so your inventory is full of broken weapons you can't get rid of until you go back to the "room" and put it in the chest. Ghosts that are unkillable unless you have specifik items that locks them in place but there are like 4 in the whole game. The last half of the game is just an annoying escort mission with a retarded victim that will attack the unkillable while they are down and never stop so you are forced to never equip her with a weapon so the game won't break. Avoid like the plague since it's not a silent hill game and not even a good horror game.