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    Silent Hill 2 & Phantom Dust XBOX

    Alright all!

    I was wondering if anyone could tell me if Silent Hill 2 is worth a purchase on the xbox, i've never played any of them and i was wondering if it holds its own as a worth while purchase. Can i ask are the controls/camera like resi or ed if they are like resi i think i'll give it a miss because i can't stand the camera in resi.

    Phantom Dust from the looks of this its a really good exclusive and i was wondering does anyone know it it'll come out in the western world? Cos i dont think one game warrents paying for my xbox to be chipped. Plus is it any good?

    Cheers!

    #2
    Silent Hill 2 has a camera that follows behind you. Not static cameras as in Resident Evil. Its a very good game if you like that sort of thing. Its a lot bigger than the Resident Evil games and there's a fair amount of running around the town getting from place to place. Its probably the best Silent Hill game too. Its also quite spooky in places.
    Don't look at me, I'm irrelevant.

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      #3
      As luck would have it our Phantom Dust looks set to go online today at some point. SH2 is fantastic btw, if you like that sort of thing.

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        #4
        Originally posted by marcus
        As luck would have it our Phantom Dust looks set to go online today at some point.
        What theres gonna be a review of it? or am i getting the wrong end of the stick?

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          #5
          I'd recommend getting your Xbox chipped anyway, there's always some reason of another (like more imports games ). Phantom Dust plays in English anyway, you'll have no problem with it but I don't consider the game that great, tbh. Kind of a 6 on the ol' NTSC-uk scale, I guess...

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            #6
            Originally posted by Commander Marklar
            I'd recommend getting your Xbox chipped anyway, there's always some reason of another (like more imports games ).
            Hrm, currently theres no jap or us exclusives that would make me wanna get my xbox chipped plus i dont mind waiting for games to get released in a pal format for the xbox because normally i'm still playing catch up with my import gc titles.

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              #7
              I have both of those!

              Silent Hill 2 is a piece of work and I'd recommend it even though the controls are indeed like Resident Evil. Much more important is the mood and tone of the game - it's unsettling throughout, with an expert, unfolding story that's a bit of a shaggy dog but has loads of great moments scattered along the way.

              Phantom Dust was marketed along the same lines in some ways - fantastic screenshots of a post-apocalypic world of burnt-out cars and tumbledown carparks which snared me straightaway. It's gonna be Silent Hill mixed with J.G.Ballard, I thought. Stick it in the xbox and it's a next-generation Outtrigger - which isn't a bad thing necessarily but a bit short of what I'd imagined. If you like third person shooters with a 'tiny' bit of RPG wandering about (but no stats) to talk to characters for your next mission, you may like it.

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                #8
                Phantom dust review is now up.

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                  #9
                  Fireproofradiator cheers for your input there. So just to clarify sh 2 the camera isn't like resi's? but the controls are similar? I dont mind about the controls but the camera in resi was dire the worst in 3d gaming history i think

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                    #10
                    The camera has funny angles like in Resi, but it moves about in full 3D rather than still images. In big spaces the camera follows you about like in a normal 3rd person game, but when in buildings etc it can get pretty disorientating (a design feature, rather than a flaw).

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                      #11
                      Silent Hill II is ok.

                      Worth geting onthe cheap but the story is all over the place, and it gets boring as hell at times (endless wandering).

                      I'll get it for the music score alone .

                      Working Desgins are rumoured to be picked up Phantom Dust for the west. So we?ll see it in the years 2008

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