It is considered a defining title in the survival horror genre, and is also considered by many to be one of the greatest video games ever made, as it moved away from B movie horror elements toward a more psychological horror style, emphasizing atmosphere. Silent Hill received positive reviews from critics on its release and was commercially successful. Five game endings are possible, depending on actions taken by the player, including one joke ending. The game follows Harry Mason as he searches for his missing adopted daughter in the eponymous fictional American town of Silent Hill stumbling upon a cult conducting a ritual to revive a deity it worships, he discovers her true origin. Unlike earlier survival horror games that focused on protagonists with combat training, the player character of Silent Hill is an ' everyman'.
To mitigate limitations of the console hardware, developers liberally used fog and darkness to muddle the graphics. Silent Hill uses a third-person view, with real-time rendering of 3D environments. The first installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in North America in February 1999, in Japan in March 1999 and in Europe in July 1999. Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PlayStation published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. Survival horror (PS1), Horror Visual Novel (GBA)
