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Revision as of 20:45, 15 March 2006 by 69.88.39.137 (talk) (→Influences and Trivia)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Silent Hill 3 is the third game in the survival horror series.
2003 video game| Silent Hill 3 | |
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| Silent Hill 3 | |
| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | KCET |
| Platform(s) | Playstation PC |
| Release | August 6, 2003 |
| Genre(s) | Survival horror |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Story
Template:Spoilers Seventeen years have passed since the events of Silent Hill. Heather is a normal teenage girl 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.
See also
Influences and Trivia
- 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.
- The Borley Haunted Mansion in the Lakeside Amusement Park is a reference to Borley Rectory, at one time "the most haunted house in England" until its destruction by fire in 1939.
- At the construction site, there is a wall that can be knocked through. Behind the wall there is a corpse and a gun silencer, paying homage to a scene from Metal Gear Solid, 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.
- The pendant around Heather's neck is a reference to the movie "Rosemary's Baby".
- The subway scene is another reference to "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
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