Description: Here are the new releases out for Friday March 30. Published: 28 March, 2012 - - Website: www.videogamer.com - - Silent Hill Downpour, the eighth title in the series, comes out at an interesting time - after the critical disappointment of Homecoming and the commercial upset of Shattered Memories, Konami's decision to hand the series to another unproven developer is more than enough get the alarm bells ringing. It doesn't come as a big surprise that Downpour can't match the series' former glories, then, but this tale of escaped convict Murphy Pendleton and his almost comedic trek into Silent Hill (his prison transport van crashes because the driver gets distracted for a couple of seconds) knows how to conjure up a few of its own chills and thrills. Pendleton's initial portrayal isn't one of a Particularly Nice Man, and the game's opening sequence has you brutally savage a naked fat bloke in a prison cell while originally providing no reasonable context - it's als! o a nice little touch of showing how gamers will do anything provided there's an in-game command to do so. Lamp the funny looking porker with a bit of broken stick! Do iiiiiit!.
