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Silent Hill 3 is the third game in the survival horror series.

Story

Seventeen years have passed since the events of Silent Hill. Heather Mason is a normal teenage girl, living under the alias Heather Morris, who loves to shop and has a sharp attitude about almost everything, until one Sunday the past catches up with her.

Douglas Cartland, a detective, approaches Heather at the mall. Heather eludes the detective but suddenly finds the environment transformed into a strange decaying landscape. She attempts to escape the horror to her home and her father, yet on the way she faces a mysterious and forgotten secret.

The plot and locales of the third game are directly tied to the first Silent Hill game.

Influences and Trivia

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• A puzzle in the game, in the crematorium of the "Nightmare" Brookhaven Hospital, in the hard difficulty setting, refers to "Who Killed Cock Robin," a poem.
• At the construction site, there is a wall that can be knocked through. Behind the wall there is a corpse, rumoured to be President Baker, a character from the Metal Gear Solid series, another Konami game.
• Wheelchairs are recurring features in the series. In Silent Hill a boss, Cybil, is found lying in a wheelchair. At one point in Silent Hill 3, Heather passes a glass wall. On the other side is an empty wheelchair outside of a room in what appears to be a mental institute. This strongly resembles a prominent image in the movie Session 9. Another wheelchair can be found lying on the floor, its wheel still spinning, resembling a shot in Jacob's Ladder.
• A song in Silent Hill 3 is titled "Sickness Unto Foolish Death." This might be a reference to the existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's theory on despair, which he detailed in his The Sickness Unto Death, an existential concept to describe the state we're in when we have to make choices in a world of uncertainty. This state is the described as a "loss of self." Looking at the third installment of the series with this theme in context, it could be seen as Heather's difficult choice of vengeance vs. submission to the Otherworld of Silent Hill, and how she loses her self-awareness in the pursuit of vengeance.

External links

• Official Silent Hill 3 site (Konami Europe)
• Silent Hill series (Konami Japan)
• Gamespot
• Silent Hill 3 ⚠ "mbid" is missing! at MusicBrainz
• Silent Hill 3 ⚠ "mbid" is missing! at MusicBrainz
• Silent Hill 3 Original Soundtracks ⚠ "mbid" is missing! at MusicBrainz

• 2003 computer and video games
• PlayStation 2 games
• PC games
• Silent Hill
• Survival horror games