New Silent Hill pushed back to February Comments by Robert Purchese

Like anyone really cares then.

I'm a little disappointed to be honest as I was really looking forward to it having only pre-ordered it last week. However, on reflection there are too many potentially good games coming out between now and Christmas so this is probably a good thing in the long run. It'll be released during the post-festive season games drought which means that (a) it is likely to sell better; and (b) I'll have a lot more time to play it! Good news all round really. :)

P.S. Of course if you're a PS3 owner you can import the US version as all PS3 games are region-free. It'll probably work out cheaper too.

wasnt gonna buy this cus theres about 10 better games cummin out this year...
might buy it now if it comes before killzones out

It's been pushed back in Europe because they couldn't release it in Germany without cuts, at least according to Wikipedia article.

I'd import but it's meant to be crappy so naaaaaaah!

I've beaten the game and it's my favorite Silent Hill. Don't blindly go by metacritic. If you're a fan of the series (and I'm not particularly), you should at least give it a rent. Too bad about the delay thought. But as Darren said, you could import it on PS3.

interesting that EG is using Metacritic as the reference point, why not go further and abstain from scoring games and just give review articles and link to Metacritic rating?! Too many of 'Not as good as Halo 3' or 'OMG same score as so-so game! U r biased and favors Z console'!!

Score is just subjective number assigned by reviewer to closely match the 'investagtive' article, but I believe a lot of readers just go scroll past the articles text and focus on the NUMBER and cast their judgement!

Anyway I may import PS3 version, as pissed off with the idea of waiting for Feb! Not going to bother trying X360 as some games are region free and others not so. I got imported Tales of Vesperia that is only locked to Asian X360! So its just a box with a pretty cover! Anyone want it? Just email me and I ll consider a swop.

Accept the game may not be without fault but still keen on it as have all the Silent Hill related games.

Don't think I've seen a review that says this is a good addition to the series, I'm still planning to try it of course, but I'm not hopeful at all. At least the music will be good as ever?

@neilka
You should learn how to read. Australian AND German ratings boards refused to give it a rating. There are also several technical issues with the US version. Most likely, Konami plans to tone down some of the "torture-porn-style" violence and fix the technical problems along the way.
Btw, you can release games unrated in Germany it's just that you can make more money by getting a rating first.

Ah! The waiting game!
These developers are brilliant, I tell you! Throwing in these mini-games that you can play before you even have the game. The rest of the world doesn't know what they're missing!

I believe that the reason for the delay is to make the censor cuts needed to pass the game in PAL Australia. The game has already passed BBFC but there is no way Konami are going to release different PAL versions. I think this delay is for censorship reasons and all PAL territories will receive the censored version. That is why Konami are being so cagey about it as nobody wants a censored version.

I care. Hope they take some time to do some improvements on the UI and the bugs.

GamesConnoisseur, before importing a 360 game, go to playasia.com as they list which ones are and are not. Btw, I just ordered an jNTSC 360 from there, so if you want to get rid of those Tales, PM me (soon as I will get it if you're not interrested)
ta ta!

Typical fuckin germans and aussies causing all the problems, and its the rest of us who have to suffer with a heavily censored version of the game. Guess they have to give us the censored one seeing as anyone in germany and aus could pick up our copy and play it

For good reason, it certainly can't stand up well with whats getting released this and next month. I imported this rubbish, gave up on it due to its god awful. Very Low resolution textures everywhere, plastic character models and lack of any decent graphical detail to speak of in the normal realm. Hair designed by Playmobile.

The dogs look like something i made out of red plasticine when i was 6.

Alex moves way too slow, he looks like he is moving faster than he acually is. He also has the loudest steps i've heard in a game for awhile.

Where i was constantly focusing on the graphics i was missing out on the atmosphere, it was just way too hard to ignore. I'm a huge fan of the Silent Hill series and it pains me i just couldn't put up with it.

To be honest I was going to buy it, but wouldn't be able to afford it next month. So not a huge loss then.

Well if my local still has some import copies I'm buying it tomorrow ;)

Was looking forward to this so that sucks dosen't surprise me though. Oh well might get Dead Space for now.

They can push it back indefinitely as far as I'm concerned, its gonna be crap anyway.

Played it, finished it, it's great!

I love the fact that the PS3 is region free :)

/goes back to enjoying €40 games from Canada

Miiiguel: "GamesConnoisseur, before importing a 360 game, go to playasia.com as they list which ones are and are not. Btw, I just ordered an jNTSC 360 from there, so if you want to get rid of those Tales, PM me (soon as I will get it if you're not interrested)
ta ta!"

Ta re tip for checking for compatibility, it is strange that at one time it was said X360 would be region free but depending on which publisher. Should have pursued region free ambition.

However happy to get the game to you Miiiguel! We ll sort it out via XBL, cheers mate.

I was stonked suprised when I got into my local PC World to get new 1 TB hard drive and ponder BD drive when I glimpsed "Silent Hill: Homecoming" Strategy Guidebook! Freaking hell I thought and the game not going to appear on the PC World's games shelves until February. I browsed through the book, saw some great artworks and interested in the new monsters, weapons and was pretty close to buying it even though no game to go with it!!

I'd make a guess it was to make a censored cut to appease the Australian and some European censors.

I keep hearing the "I'd have no money anyway" argument, what games are coming out that would have prevented a purchase of this particular game? Yes I'm out of the loop.

This is incredibly disappointing. I'm getting it on import, but the delay is still very baffling.
Probably won't be the best Silent Hill game at an average of what, 75% scores? Well, Silent Hill 2 only scored in the mid-80s as far as I remember and that's pretty much the best game I've ever played.
We'll see. Definitely looking forward to this.

game's crap thats why.

Thank you Germany for being a bitch

"I keep hearing the "I'd have no money anyway" argument, what games are coming out that would have prevented a purchase of this particular game? Yes I'm out of the loop."

Wow, you are out of the loop. Fable 2, Gears 2, Far Cry 2, Mirror's Edge, LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2, Banjo Kazooie 3, Fallout 3, Prince of Persia, etc.

This is the busiest pre-Christmas games rush I ever remember.

Damn, makes me wish I had a functioning console ;[

PS3, 360 both on the scrapheap at the moment, I should probably get them fixed!

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Guess I better not watch Zero Punctuation next week or the spoilers will be the end of me.

Heh.