Silent Hill 4: The Room

i was SO excited when i saw this game on here. immediate buy, even if its not my fave, i LOVE silent hill....and my computer thinks one of the files in this version is a trojan horse. so i can t really play it? and/or theres just a trijan horse virus just in the game files? either way is sketchy. quite dissapointing.

This is definitely the weakest of the Silent Hill games (At least of those released on PC, which were the only ones i played). I really wanted to like it. The premise is really good: locked in the room, strange hole in the bathroom... And the mystery with the Walter Sullivan murders. It really got me. And it has some good creepy imagery. But this game broke me with its controls. Navigating your protagonist is a chore. Not even does he change his direction as soon as the camera perspective changes, he also feels so slow and sluggish, especially in combat. And the automatic lock on system there hurts more than it helps. Sometimes it felt like i was fighting the game more than the enemies. And then i got the AI companion and that was it for me. After 7 hours i just couldn't take it any more and felt a frustration i rarely felt while playing a game. After all your frustration level might be higher, but i am done with this. I give this game two stars because of the burping hospital zombies (which made me laugh pretty hard, especially when they were falling down the stairs, burping constantly), and the amazing music by Akira Yamaoka.

What a janky mess. I just can't understand these reviews unless they're all fake. Not even worth it for the nostalgia. I found it impossible to play. The 3rd person perpective is atrocious. I'm constantly running into the camera with no idea what's in front of me. The controls are abysmal, both KBM and gamepad suck equally. There's absolutely no camera control. It just tries to follow behind the character with spectacular failure. When it manages to get behind the character, it jumps around erratically, many times in birds eye view showing the top of your head and the ground. Just as bad as running into the camera because you can't see what's in front of you. The map just confuses you more than you were. You have to micro manage your position to interact with anything, which is exacerbated by the crappy controls. I gave it an hour and I'm never going back. They should have optimized the controls and camera pov. First person perspective would have improved it immensely.

An awful game from start to finish. Awkward, unresponsive controls, bland visuals, terrible sound design (voice and effects are SNES era quality), and a non-existent story. I was a big fan of SH2 + 3 but this was a big letdown, wish I'd kept my £7 instead...

Game didnt won't even load into a menu without crashing.