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• Return to Silent Hill this autumn

  Uh-oh. According to Eurogamer, this autumn about to get spooky, with Silent Hill: Downpour, the eighth game in the survival horror series, hitting the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

  With the Czech developer Vatra in charge, Downpour story centres on convict Murphy Pendleton, whose prison transport coach crashes in some spooky woods, landing him in a whole load of trouble.

  "Other games have touched upon normal people who have done bad things, or innocent people stumbling on events much bigger than themselves," said associate producer Tomm Hulett. "But a prisoner is a person you would expect to have a lot of baggage for Silent Hill to exploit. We felt this was an interesting premise that fans could speculate on as they awaited the game. I wouldn't say it was a deliberate attempt to 'play a bad guy' necessarily, but we did have discussions around whether or not people would/could relate to such a character."

  Like 2009 Shattered Memories, Downpour will be ditching weapons to ramp up the scares. "Fear is a tricky thing to get a handle on," Hulett suggested. "Shattered Memories provided a very important experience in a genre currently dominated by the ability to stand your ground and gun down monsters: helplessness. Our goal with Downpour is to then take what we learned, and fold it back seamlessly into a 'core' Silent Hill experience./p>

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