Oh, the game does a good job at capturing the atmosphere of Silent Hill. It's a good game for a die hard fan such as myself, but I can see why the game was pushed back.
There are quite a few glitches in the game and it still feels unfinished. The game gives you moments of choice which make you think it will impact the story, but no matter what you do, the same scenario plays out. For example, a girl is hanging from a cliff and you can choose to either leave her or help her. Leave her and she falls, help her and she still falls. I feel like they could've expanded so much on this idea but it doesn't offer much replay value when your actions don't even change anything.
Also, there is still way too much focus on combat. If you're going to implement action into Silent Hill you've got to improve the controls. Resident Evil 4 did an excellent job at changing up it's style to suit more action and combat. And while Downpour has improved its controls from its golden era, it still doesn't know how to perfect melee combat and third person shooting. Many fans agree that Silent Hill is better off with less enemies and focus more on the paranoia of waiting to get attacked like in the older games. But we're dealing with Americans now and they don't know the meaning of the word subtlety, lol.
Regardless of my criticism it's still a good game, albeit a flawed one. Perhaps my exceptions were too high?
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