Climax picked to ‘reinvent’ Konami’s Silent Hill

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Climax picked to ‘reinvent’  Konami’s Silent Hill

First game in iconic franchise to be revamped for Wii, PS2 and PSP by Britsoft firm

Climax has been confirmed as developing a new Silent Hill game for Konami.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will hit PS2, PSP and Wii, and is pitched as a ‘reinvention’ of the first game in the series, originally developed in Japan.

Series composer Akira Yamaoka has been confirmed as working on a score for this new title.

It’s not the first time Konami has turned to a developer in the West to work on new versions of its survival horror franchise. Climax recently developed a PSP version and Foundation 9’s Double Helix last year produced Silent Hill: Homecoming for 360 and PS3.

Konami has also recently turned to another US independent, Zombie, for another horror game – a title based on the five-strong Saw movie franchise.

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Surprising

posted by Simon Apr 07, 2009 at 10:19 am
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This news is somewhat surprising in the wake of the PSP version of Silent Hill that Climax produced two years ago that was universally regarded as poor.

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Not surprising

posted by Pocket Apr 07, 2009 at 1:01 pm
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Well, some people didn't think that the game was poor at all.

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Re: Not surprising

posted by rorkimaru Apr 07, 2009 at 6:46 pm
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I actually liked the PSP game very much. There were issues, the mirrors were a poor design choice and there was no real reason not to just up and leave the town until near the end, but I enjoyed the classic puzzling and gameplay.

That said a remake of SH1... by westerners... FAIL/10. After hearing about homecomming this is in no doubt of being an atrocity. I'll still buy it tho but on PSP so I have no waggle to deal with.

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