Silent Hill: Origins
Silent Hill: Origins is the fifth installment in the Silent Hill survival horror series, and a prequel to the original game. As in the previous entries, the player move back and forth between nightmare and…
Silent Hill: Origins is an adventure developed by Climax LA, released 6 November 2007 on PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What Silent Hill: Origins is
Silent Hill: Origins is an adventure game developed by Climax LA and released in 2007. It was published by Konami Digital Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Silent Hill: Origins takes place several years before the events of the first game. Travis Grady, a trucker who suffers from visions that are somehow familiar to him, is running late for a delivery one night. He decides to make up for lost time by taking a detour through Silent Hill on his way to Brahms. On the outskirts of Silent Hill, a cloaked figure darts into the road in front of him. Travis slams on the brakes and exits his truck to check on their condition, without know where he is putting himself.
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: Origins is the 14th of 39 entries we hold in the Silent Hill series. The next entry was Silent Hill: The Escape in 2007. Its critic score of 80 is 6 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Silent Hill 2 at 90.
How it was received
Silent Hill: Origins holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 135 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs.
What it launched against
Silent Hill: Origins launched on 6 November 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Silent Hill: Origins yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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