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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 |
Silent Hill 3 is the third game in the survival horror series. The game was released on August 6, 2003 in North America. The game was only released onto Playstation 2 and PC consules.
Story
Seventeen years have passed since the events of the first game. Heather is a normal teenage girl who loves to shop and has a sharp attitude about almost everything, but one Sunday the past catches up with her. Avoiding a stranger, Douglas Cartland, who claims that he is a detective, sent to find her, Heather 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..
Trivia
- All four Silent Hill titles contain references to the movie Jacob's Ladder. Silent Hill's gradual decline from perceived normalcy to stylized decay bears a close resemblance to the film's visual aesthetic, and Silent Hill's monsters are often seen shaking their heads rapidly from side to side in unnatural and jerky motions, a direct lift of Jacob's Ladder's visual style. Silent Hill 2 implies the notion of the town being akin to a personal purgatory, another similar theme from the film. Another strong reference is the use of the name Bergen Street for the subway platform to which Heather (protagonist of Silent Hill 3's plot) encounters in Silent Hill 3. Bergen Street station played a significant part in Jacob's Ladder and the setting looks very much alike. Similarly, the "Subway World" in Silent Hill 4, with its surreal decay and blocked exits, echoes scenes from the film as well.
- A puzzle in Silent Hill 3, in the crematorium of the "Nightmare" Brookhaven Hospital, in the hard difficulty setting, refers to "Who Killed Cock Robin," a poem.
- Though the town of Silent Hill is officially located somewhere in New England, there is a body of water in the town named Toluca Lake, named after the real Toluca Lake in Southern California, near Burbank, North Hollywood, and Studio City. Director David Lynch is legendary for having eaten lunch at Bob's Big Boy restaurant every day for approximately seven years straight. That particular Bob's Big Boy is located in Toluca Lake, CA on Riverside Drive, just down the road from Warner Bros. Studios and Universal Studios.
- In Silent Hill 3, 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.
See Also
External Links
- Official Silent Hill 3 site (Konami Europe)
- Silent Hill series (Konami Japan)
- Gamespot