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First review of Silent Hill: Homecoming is not good

A snippet and score from the first review of Silent Hill: Homecoming is in, posted from Official Xbox Magazine over at Metacritic. The outlook? Not good. The snippet reads "From its leaden, cheap-shots-aplenty combat to its wild-goose chase through gray, same-y hallways filled with useless, placebo doorways to a story that takes much too long to get off the ground, its entire first half feels like a death march through a clunky hot mess." and scores the game 65/100. Although they presumably played with the 360 version, I doubt that there's a big difference between PS3 and 360 editions. Of course, that's only one review, and I expect we'll see others soon, but it's not a good start.
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Published: 456 days 18 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
 
 

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peowpeow - 456 days 18 hours ago
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You serious? :( Am eager for other reviews
This has got to be a good game..
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Kigmal - 456 days 17 hours ago
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The original Silent Hill Team didn't make it. It's like a next-gen Silent Hill Origins game. I knew this would be lame.
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fishd - 456 days 17 hours ago
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Hevay Rain's engine is the sh1t for a silent hill game,unfortunatly it won't happen:(
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bishop-br - 456 days 10 hours ago
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I still have hope for this game Kigmail, I liked Origins.

And to be fair, I'll not take reviews too seriously, specially westernized ones. Most people in this side of the world are confortable with shooter-horror, I, on the other hand, am a fan of good old SURVIVAL-horror.

Made this game just don't have ammo enough for western.

I'll wait for Game Informer, IGN and, specially, Famitsu (the 3 sources I take real seriously).
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SL1M DADDY - 455 days 21 hours ago
1.4 - Silent Hill is no longer...
It died when the original team stopped making the series. If you want a great horror survival game then download SIREN. It beats out Silent Hill any day of the week.
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Ashta - 456 days 18 hours ago
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Must not have had enough explosions for the 360 crowd to like it.

:P
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Winter47th - 456 days 17 hours ago
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The hero don't wear a helmet that's just TERRIBLE WTF an instant 4, plus too much story god what is this a movie? 3/10..no wait.. there's a chick involved, 6/10.

All in all, Silent Hill wasn't easily accessible to the new crowd like RE, but to the fans, it's an experience well appreciated, the OST alone's worth the wait, Akira Yamaoka FTW.
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hay - 456 days 17 hours ago
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@Winter: that was funny. Bubbles mate.
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Kigmal - 456 days 17 hours ago
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Winter47th, you haven't even played the game yet, why are you calling BS on their review? I bet you didn't even read the review and just bothered to look at the score. I can bet you anything it'll get scores below 7 from other websites. This is going to be like Silent Hill Origins. It's made by the american Silent Hill team, I think Backbone or something like that. They suck.
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VWGTI - 456 days 15 hours ago
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@ Winter

That's damn funny, man.
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mfwahwah - 456 days 4 hours ago
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So much hate :'(
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sinncross - 456 days 18 hours ago
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probably expected.. everything ive heard about this new silent hill made me less interested in it.

The series is not what it used to be
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name - 456 days 17 hours ago
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R.I.P. Silent hill
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idontcare - 456 days 17 hours ago
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Siren kicks SH's a$$
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Sony Rep - 456 days 17 hours ago
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Siren FTW!
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RadientFlux - 456 days 17 hours ago
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Well so far this generation there hasn't been a great 3rd person survivor horror game (IMO, I didn't like Siren) and it looks like the newest Silent Hill isn't going to change that.

Hopefully Alan Wake and Resident Evil 5 will change that next year.
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RealityCheck - 456 days 17 hours ago
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I agree. However RE5 looks like RE4, and that was not really a survivor horror game, more like a 3rd person shooter. It was really good don't get me wrong, just not a classical survival horror game anymore.
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PirateThom - 456 days 17 hours ago
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Resident Evil 5 seems to be more 3rd person action than survival horror now. Alan Wake though... it better be good, it's my most anticpated XBox 360 game.... bar Mass Effect 2!
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xaphanze - 456 days 17 hours ago
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7.1

Minimum it's true.
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RadientFlux - 456 days 17 hours ago
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True, Resident Evil 4 was fun but I never found it to be scary. A better choice would have to be Heavy Rain.
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Maldread - 456 days 17 hours ago
7.5 - Too all of you
Agreed. I look forward to RE5, but i hope it will be more scary than RE4, which was a great game, but not as scary as i would`ve liked.

Project Orgin (or FEAR 2) could turn out scary though.
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monkey602 - 456 days 16 hours ago
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Dead Space looks promising.

there were also a few more survival horror games announced but I cant remember most of them. One being "rainy woods" or something like that
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Gambit07 - 456 days 15 hours ago
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@monkey. Here is a clip of Rainy Woods, funniest sh!t I've seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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DarkArima - 456 days 10 hours ago
7.8 - Re stop being a horror game after Re 3
RE is not a horror game anymore it's a balls to the wall shooter
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monkey602 - 455 days 18 hours ago
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Gambit I see what you mean. It looks horrible. Have a bubble for your effort. Cheers
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MvmntInGrn - 456 days 17 hours ago
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From what I've seen it looks like typical silent hill, I find it hard to believe it can be that bad. This is only one review though.
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bakagaijin78 - 456 days 16 hours ago
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Agreed. When I read the snippit I thought 'sounds like every other SH game'. Maybe the reviewer was looking for something different with this one?

As a longtime SH fan, I'm still looking forward to it.
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DaDarkKnight - 456 days 17 hours ago
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Well its not surprising that this happened when most of the people who started the series did not work on this one and actually worked on the new sirens game lol
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asyouburn - 456 days 17 hours ago
10 - its gotta play better than SH4
at least you can kill stuff
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VWGTI - 456 days 15 hours ago
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LOL!

So flippin' true man. Good stuff.
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fufotrufo - 456 days 17 hours ago
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:(
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kazuma - 456 days 17 hours ago
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wow, i'm so surprised! sh4, sh origins, and now homecoming? failure after failure after failure? get a grip konami (and yes i know that it was done by a stupid american studio, but silent hill does belong to konami)
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PirateThom - 456 days 17 hours ago
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Konami is kind of in a bad way, even their cash cow PES was a bit of a flop last year, although they seem to have at least fixed it this year. Metal Gear Solid really is all they have keeping them going. On their "income" pie chart recently, MGS had a whole section on its own and it was like 25% of Konami and there wasn't even a game released that year!
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whothedog - 456 days 17 hours ago
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I hope this is a good game, I thought the monsters or whatever looked bad@$$ this time.... more so this time I mean. Well I will have to hear some more opinions about this game, but I will probably end up renting it anyways because I'm a big fan of surviver horror haha games
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azurechaos - 456 days 17 hours ago
14 - I'll withhold judgment
All the previews I've seen(including the ones where they got to play the game extensively) said the game was beautiful, and being that the comments look a bit superficial (like the door comment, there were lots of doors you couldn't go into in the old games too), I'm not so sure I trust this assessment. All the visuals I've seen seem to stay true to the franchise and it looks genuinely creepy, I'll still buy it.
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Homicide - 456 days 17 hours ago
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No surprise really. The series has been going downhill, and Team Silent aren't doing the game.
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Duraji - 456 days 16 hours ago
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What I wish to find out is WHY Team Silent didn't want to do the game. I mean, they've already spent four years away from the franchise.
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ceedubya9 - 456 days 17 hours ago
16 - The review was a little misleading
Although it said that the first part of the game wasn't too great, it seemed to get a lot better towards the end. It almost seems like the reviewer liked it, but was expecting something other than another Silent Hill game.

The complaints that he had seemed to be complaints about standard survival horror fare (lack of ammo for instance).

Most of the previews that I've read have been pretty positive. And I think that when it comes to this series, there will be a love/hate relationship. I really wasn't expecting much more than a 7-8 for this game anyway. I'm willing to give it a shot. It seems like the developers wanted to at least stay true to the franchise as much as possible.
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Rockox - 456 days 16 hours ago
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@16 - that's what I was just about to say. The review basically says if you can stick it out until the second half, it starts to pick up and get really good.

Where have you seen other reviews? I haven't been able to find any reviews besides the OXM one.

I'm getting this game regardless. I love Silent Hill.
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UnwanteDreamz - 456 days 16 hours ago
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I would have to agree. I will at least wait until more places review it because I know alot of people who couldn't get through the first one and that is one of my all time favorites. Survival Horror Is Dying
makes me want to vomit.
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ceedubya9 - 456 days 15 hours ago
17.2 - I haven't seen other reviews
Just previews on different sites that were put up early september. None of the ones I read seemed to say anything bad about it, and pretty much says that it definitely feels like a Silent Hill game. That's good enough for me.

The game probably won't break any new barriers, but signs are pointing to something in the 7s or possibly a solid 8. Which is fine for this game. That means its playable, has a few problems,but should be good enough for fans.
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monkey602 - 456 days 16 hours ago
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I'll at least rent this anyway. I'm saving my money for Dead Space. I am really hyped for that game
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UnwanteDreamz - 456 days 16 hours ago
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Yep looks like its gonna be worth the playtime. They have done a great job with the backstory as well. Hell DSpace has enough backstory for almost 2 games.
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Sheddi - 456 days 16 hours ago
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who cares.
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Rockox - 456 days 15 hours ago
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I'm just glad this game is on both the 360 and PS3, because I only have a 360. If Silent Hill were a PS3 exclusive, I probably would've bought a PS3 just to play it. Same goes for Resident Evil 5.
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J BO - 456 days 15 hours ago
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be prepare for the review of dead space. which i think it will have same fate.
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aggh im on fire - 456 days 15 hours ago
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I really love Silent Hill games but have a feeling this review might be spot on. Im preying its wrong though.
Just a thought but im sure the official mag scores out of 10 not a 100?
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Rusted - 456 days 14 hours ago
24 - Meh
Whatever, Silent Hill is not for the masses anyway. Im used to this, you love it or hate it, no grayscales. This game have some kind of "magic" (music and sound effects by Akira Yamaoka, nuff said) if your a fan you will love it, period. I've been waiting for a Next-gen Silent Hill so, this game is sooooo mine. :)
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