GI.net: "Stifling an urge is much easier when you have access to your craving. Gaming is a vast landscape, filled with plenty of genres to tide over any number of gaming wants or needs. As time progresses, certain aspects of gaming shift and change, ebb and flow as if a mini evolutionary cycle were always occurring to thrive and adapt. With such a drastically changing landscape, some of gaming's older habits or finer celebrations get left by the wayside, and survival horror is one of the biggest victims of neglect in recent years. Silent Hill: Homecoming marks another installment in the now classically running survival horror franchise and also is dealing with the horror of surviving in a day and age that would be as welcoming as the very residents of Silent Hill.
I've been a big fan of Silent Hill from the very beginning. Though I played and loved Resident Evil before Silent Hill even saw the light of day, Silent Hill came out to my surprised delight on the PlayStation in 1999, and it did so with a bang, not a whimper. The intriguing story, the atmosphere, the sheer audacity of fear the game tried to instill within you - as Resident Evil would move further away from in later years - and finally making the full transition to action game, Silent Hill would strive to shock and awe for years to come, while never veering from its roots far enough to shun embracing what makes nightmares a reality."
