(PC) Silent Hill 4: The Room (1-DVD) (2004)

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Silent Hill 4: The Room is the fourth installment in the Konami Silent Hill survival horror series. The game was released in Japan in June 2004 and in North America and Europe in September of that same year. Silent Hill 4 was released for the Sony PlayStation 2 and the Microsoft Xbox consoles as well as the PC. A soundtrack release was also made at the same time.
Unlike the previous installments, which were set primarily in the disturbed town of Silent Hill, this game is set in the fictional town of South Ashfield, and is focused on the character of Henry Townshend attempting to escape from his locked-down apartment. He explores a series of supernatural worlds and finds himself in conflict with an undead serial killer.
Originally intended to be unrelated to the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill 4 features an altered gameplay style with third-person navigation and plot elements taken from previous installments. Upon its release the game received a mixed critical reaction due to deviations from the original Silent Hill style.
Gameplay
Silent Hill 4: The Room was originally envisioned as an unrelated game to the Silent Hill series, and therefore possesses a substantially different gameplay style than the other games.[1] Gameplay is centered on the protagonist Henry's apartment, which is shown through a first-person perspective and contains the only save point. The other levels of the game are reached through mysterious holes formed in the apartment's bathroom and eventually laundry room.[1][2] For the first half of the game the room will also heal the player.[2] The second half of the game has the room become possessed by various hauntings which drain Henry's health.
In the main levels of the game the player uses the usual third person perspective of the Silent Hill series.[1] Unlike other games the player only has a limited item inventory which can be managed by leaving unneeded items in a chest in Henry's room.[2] Silent Hill 4 emphasizes combat during gameplay, with a near-absence of complex puzzles in favor of simple item-seeking tasks.[1] In the second half of the game Henry is accompanied by his neighbor Eileen Galvin; Eileen cannot die while she is with Henry, although as she takes damage she succumbs to possession by Walter Sullivan. The player can also equip Eileen with a weapon to have her join Henry in combat.[4] The damage Eileen takes in the game determines whether or not she dies in the final boss fight, directly affecting the ending achieved.
Combat
Combat in Silent Hill 4 follows the pattern set by the other games with a few key differences. As with the previous three titles in the series, the player has access to a wide variety of melee weapons but only two firearms. Melee weapons are often breakable. Breakable melee weapons include such items as golf clubs and bottles and while inflicting a varied amount of damage to an opponent, they eventually break and become useless.[6] Items which can be equipped such as talismans (which protect the player from damage from the hauntings in Henry's room) will eventually break after a short period of use.
Another key difference in the combat system is that melee attacks may be "charged" before they are used, inflicting a greater amount of damage to an opponent than a quick attack.[7]
One of the most significant changes is the introduction of the "Victim" monsters, the unkillable ghosts of Walter Sullivan's victims. The ghosts have the ability to hurt Henry with a damaging "aura" which can be nullified by the holy candle and saint medallion items.[6][8] The same items can also exorcise the hauntings in Henry's apartment.[3] Ghosts can also be knocked down for a long time with one of the two silver bullets and pinned permanently with a Sword of Obedience item.[6] Victims can chase the player from area to area.
Story
Characters
The protagonist and player character of Silent Hill 4 is Henry Townshend, a resident of the South Ashfield Heights Apartments building in the fictional town of Ashfield.[9] Henry is an "average" man who has been described by Konami as an introvert in his late 20s.[10][11] For the most part Henry navigates the game's world alone, although he eventually works with his neighbor Eileen Galvin, an NPC whose role has been unfavorably compared to Maria of Silent Hill 2.[11] Henry also deals with the new supporting characters of Cynthia Velázquez, Andrew DeSalvo, Richard Braintree and Jasper Gein — the last of which is believed to be named after the serial killer Ed Gein.[12]
The main antagonist of the game is Walter Sullivan, an infamous serial killer who is believed to have died years prior to the game's events.[13] Sullivan appears in two forms: an undead adult enemy and a neutral child supporting character.[14] The previous victims of Sullivan play a small role in the game as enemies, and the original Japanese official site offered backstory information on these minor characters.[15][16]
Silent Hill 4: The Room uses two minor, unseen, characters from previous installments as major characters in its plot. The first, Walter Sullivan, was first referenced in a newspaper scrap in Silent Hill 2 as having killed himself shortly after killing twins Billy and Miriam Locane.[17] These two victims also appear in the form of the "twin victim" creature Henry encounters.[15] The second character is investigative journalist Joseph Schreiber, who was first referenced in Silent Hill 3 with a magazine article he has written condemning the "Hope House" orphanage run by The Order which the game's protagonist, Heather can discover.[18] It is implied in the game that South Ashfield Height's superintendent Frank Sunderland is the father of Silent Hill 2's player character James Sunderland.
Critics were, for the most part, pleased with the voice acting in the game. The graphics of the characters were also praised. In 2005 producer and composer Akira Yamaoka acknowledged the characters were, to him, "a little weak."
Plot
The game begins with the player taking control of protagonist Henry Townshend, who has been locked in his apartment in South Ashfield, room 302, for five days with no means of communication and having recurring nightmares.[21] Shortly afterwards a large hole inexplicably forms in the wall of his bathroom, and he enters. From there he enters a network of holes leading him through a series of Silent Hill-style worlds.

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Genre: Survival Horror

System Requirements:

Windows XP/ME/2000/98
1 GHz Pentium III or Athlon processor (or equivalent)
256 MB RAM
GeForce3 Ti/Radeon 8500 Video Chipset w/32MB VRAM
DirectX 8.1b (included on CD/DVD)
DirectX 8.1 compliant sound card
4X CD-ROM or 2X DVD-ROM drive
4GB Hard Disk Space

Image Format: ISO 1 disc
Archive Format: Winrar/Compressing Method Best
DISC 1 File Size: 2.33GB compressed / 2.37GB decompressed

Install Instructions
1 - Burn/Mount the game
2 - Install
3 - The Crack can be found in the "Crack" folder on the disc
4 - Copy over the crack to the installation directory

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