Silent Hill: Downpour
Silent Hill: Downpour is the eighth Silent Hill video game installment and the last fully-released video game in the series. Just like its predecessors, Downpour combines exploring abandoned surroundings…
Silent Hill: Downpour is an adventure developed by Vatra Games, released 13 March 2012 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
What Silent Hill: Downpour is
Silent Hill: Downpour is an adventure game developed by Vatra Games and released in 2012. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Murphy Pendleton, a convicted prisoner, has been incarcerated at Ryall State Prison after stealing a police cruiser. Due to his history at the prison, he is being transferred to nearby Wayside Maximum Security Penitentiary, but a freak accident cuts the journey short. Waking up in a forest next to the wrecked bus, Murphy has a clear shot at freedom. He makes his way into the sleepy town of Silent Hill where mysterious locals welcome him into a slowly developing personal hell.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Silent Hill series
Silent Hill: Downpour is the 21st of 39 entries we hold in the Silent Hill series. It arrived 2 years after Silent Hill: Mobile 3. The next entry was Silent Hill 2 in 2012. Its critic score of 70 is 4 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Silent Hill 2 at 90.
How it was received
Silent Hill: Downpour holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 69, across 98 votes.
What it launched against
Silent Hill: Downpour launched on 13 March 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Kid Icarus: Uprising and Devil May Cry HD Collection. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Devil May Cry HD Collection.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Silent Hill: Downpour yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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