For the second time takes us into the mysterious Silent Hill Konami which veterans already were allowed to visit the journalist Harry Mason. Directors Masahu Tsuboyama and Scenario Writer Hiroyuki Owaku irritate the medium "video game" fully and build sent a complex and intelligent action on. Unlike its predecessor, the storyline is linear and coherent. In Silent Hill one wants Harry Mason actually find only his daughter and then disappear from this location. Quite different James Sunderland (the new hero). He studied in the foggy city his late wife Mary, who wrote him a letter that they still waiting here. James has neither a past nor a future. He seems to have done with life and penetrates letagisch and powerless ever deeper into the murky depths of the resort. So the second part is less about educating the mysterious events in Silent Hill, but the ventilation of James past. As in the first part also there is next to a second plotline: Turned in the first part is all about a witchcraft, so you can learn in the second part a lot more about the past of the place before he became a resort. In the deep walls of the past one encounters grisly discoveries that can that peaceful nest appear in a whole new light. But not only James, it seems to have moved to the city, next to the little Laura, the bizarre Eddie and Angela distraught he meets the seedy Maria that amaze his late wife Mary resembles. It is the key to solving the story. Visually second part very great art. Not only that, the backgrounds are, no, rather they tell a story very detailed and full of atmosphere. Almost lovingly leaves art director Masahiro Ito fall and crumble the environment. Woodside apartment walls are lubricated Monterrein full, the plaster and the wallpaper and dissolve the Bode lining is broken. Windows and doors are imposed and leave the impression of an abandoned place appear. In contrast to the rather mysterious snowy predecessor the environment in Sequel acts musty, wet and cool. The fog is flying in a vision, and in some places it is so thick that you can barely even see James. The entire game round is that image of a rough camera effect disturbed. The oblique camera angle reinforce the impression of a twisted world. As in the previous Swicht the environment of an abandoned, old city in a nightmarish parallel world. Again, do not skimp on the Endwickler with Eckel. Everything seems rotten to be rusted and covered in blood. In particular, the prison and the hospital play parallel with such a handle means. Despite or perhaps because of all detail the game is not as scary to overwhelming as its predecessor. The confusing and sometimes inaccurate representation in the first part was the terror in the self-imagination gigantic accept (is that a bloodstained doll or a child's body?) Silent Hill 2 is therefore less panic and anxiety, but rather bleak, defus and disturbing. One can say anyway that this is more of a drama to act as pure horror. All characters have a past that they have to deal with and that connects them. The creatures of Silent Hill 2 are less horror monsters, who just want to tear their victims. Rather, they are expressionistic representations of fears. The music of Akira Yamaoka falls compared to its predecessor somewhat weaker. Yamaoka remains its principle of "minimal pop songs and uncomfortable noise passages" Although true, but guide it with less finely felt. Until the hospital, the music is undoubtedly well done and Yamaoka manages to make them sound completely different from that of its predecessor, then it is in their structure and effect, however, significantly weaker. Only in the labyrinth creates Yamaoka lie a few good passages. The new main theme and the end credit song, however, are very well done. By the way, when you return to the room in alternatives hospital where Maria had rested, then you hear a piece of primary school music from the first Silent Hill! Playful Silent Hill 2 is to deal with any problems. You control is very good, the camera can be influenced and weapons handling is tidy. The puzzles are indeed crisp, but to solve. Only the length is to be criticized. The game falls from the bottom line too short. All in all, Silent Hill 2 a successful game that could be called up without shame as a large pop art. Such a finely textured structure there among video games rarely and undoubtedly stands SH2 from the mass of horror games produce.
