Mon, Sep 29, 2008 | 20:21 BST
First Silent Hill: Homecoming reviews sets off alarm bells
Oh dear. The first Silent Hill: Homecoming review’s in, and the results aren’t pretty.
OXM’s given the Konami horror a less than stellar 65 percent. Snip:
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.
“Whoops.” Expect more soon.
9 comments
#1
Blerk
29/09/08, 8:30 pm
Heh heh. Told you. Months ago, even.
Of course, this is one situation where I truly and honestly wanted to be wrong.
#2
sam_spade
29/09/08, 8:31 pm
For shame.
#3
Gekidami
29/09/08, 9:30 pm
Months ago was when this review came out.
#4
Big Stu
29/09/08, 9:30 pm
Sounds like every other Silent Hill game there’s been…which would be very good news indeed!
#5
Vyse17
29/09/08, 9:32 pm
Pfft, oh noes not the magazine that gives sports games 8′s and 9′s when they have little to no difference between them.
If a game doesn’t have Gears of War, Madden/NHL, or 360 exclusive then it’ll rarely if ever make above a 7 anyway. I’ll wait until a more credible source gives a review
#6
Big Stu
29/09/08, 9:34 pm
“If a game doesn’t have Gears of War, Madden/NHL, or 360 exclusive then it’ll rarely if ever make above a 7 anyway.”
haha, what horseshit.
#7
Blerk
29/09/08, 9:40 pm
@Gekidami:
Wha? The review’s in the November issue. That’s November 2008, before you ask.
Game’s out tomorrow in the US, btw. And there are next to no reviews available. And the box-art is awful. These are not good days.
#8
Big Stu
29/09/08, 9:43 pm
Months ago is an exageration, but it was about three weeks ago that it came out.
#9
Gekidami
29/09/08, 10:00 pm
Ofcourse months is an exageration, it was to go with what Blerk said.