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As I creep through the heavy fog of Silent Hill: Townfall, I’m met by an oddly familiar sight amid the terror – a sign for a Sunday roast.

SILENT HILL: Townfall is the first full-length first-person title in the long-running series, elevating the sense of dread and immersion

The real-life dark streets of St. Monans in Scotland. Andrew Lanxon/CNET

While not winning over purists, last year’s Silent Hill fwas generally welcomed as a step in the right direction for Konami’s franchise, and was interpreted as a sign that maybe, just maybe, the troubled IP hadn’t yet turned into the horror has-been it was in danger of becoming.

Silent Hill: Townfall from developer Screen Burn Interactive is a bold direction for the beloved survival horror series. 

The Silent Hill franchise has evolved with its most recent entries, expanding into settings that go beyond the eponymous foggy American town. In Silent Hill: Townfall, it also taps into a new way to terrify players, shifting from a traditionally third-person perspective to first-person. The series has previously offered glimpses of first-person gameplay, including Silent…

The terrific Silent Hill 2 remake brought the series back from the dead, but the equally good yet very different Silent Hill f proved it could experiment, evolve, and expand the idea of what a Silent Hill game could be. So when I saw Silent Hill: Townfall ($49.99, played on PlayStation 5 Pro and also…

Much like the franchise itself, for years Silent Hill existed as an opaque figure embedded in fog, with only crackling radio static confirming its existence. Konami wasn’t sure what to do with it beyond Pyramid Head cameos in kart racers and Bomberman party games. But, like a repressed memory that suddenly manifests as a monster…

Bomb the Hill combines adrenaline-fueled VR gameplay with a storyline inspired by real-life skateboarding culture to deliver a thrilling and poignant look at the early days of the sport.

Silent Hill: Townfall is getting a special comic book ahead of the video game’s launch, as 2000 AD will produce “The Dock House”