Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on Playstation 2 Review.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is genuinely terrifying without ever needing to be grotesque. At times, it feels like the game is toying with you, something which is enhanced by the game’s psychological aspects. It also looks fantastic for a PS2 game, with a lighting engine that really brings the mystery of Silent Hill to life. A real return to form for the franchise.

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Heavy Rain's Characters May Not Be Perfectly Performed, But Draw You Further Into The Drama.

Over the past months I’ve had the privilege of playing two extremely unique games. Heavy Rain and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories are both arguably flawed titles if you pick them apart. But let them stand on their own merits and they’re inspiring. I don’t want to do other games a disservice in my appraisal, I have plenty of love for more formal titles (I’m enjoying the heck out of the uber-generic Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing), but I just want to highlight how much I think developers of any game need to learn from Heavy Rain in particular. Whatever the game, whatever the gameplay, it’d be nice to care about the characters.

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PushSquare's Playstation Pick Of The Week: Dark Void.

Hey look, it’s that time of the week again: Mon-day. Despite us incessantly rambling that, yo, this is the busiest first quarter of game releases like, erm, ever, there’s not much to pick from here.

PushSquare’s Playstation Pick Of The Week: Dark Void [US/EU]

Ok, so early reviews haven’t quite been as positive as they could have been, but, yo, Dark Void is still a game about a dude with a backpack. And the protagonist is voiced by Nolan North.

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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, the acclaimed Wii game from late last year, is due to release on the PS2 and PSP in the US this week.

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"Give Us A Kiss."

Konami have been pretty up and down with the release date of their Silent Hill reboot, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. Thankfully, Eurogamer have finally got a date out of them for the Europeans. The game will launch in February 2010 on PSP and PS2, with still no American date provided.