Editing Silent Hill (section)

==Silent Hill Homecoming==
Alex Shepherd, a Special Forces soldier who has been discharged from the hospital and sent home after being wounded in battle, arrives in his hometown of Shepherd's Glen and finds that all is not right with the world: the town is covered in fog, people (including his younger brother Josh) are disappearing, his father has left to look for his brother, and his mother is catatonic. The dark forces of Silent Hill soon infect the town proper, transforming it into a nightmarish otherworld where Alex must struggle to survive against hordes of monsters and waves of increasingly obtuse symbolism... as well as a group of mysterious cultists who seem to bear a grudge against him.

It was released so the movie could have something to run along with and it reeks of a tie-in game. Not terrible, but certainly below average when compared to the rest of the series; many consider the gameplay to be boring and/or uncharacteristically combat focused, the combat mechanics are awkward, and the story is, even for a Silent Hill game, often held up as being illogical and hard to follow.

For what it's worth, its storyline improves a lot when you realise it's a throwback to the first four games, both in the underlying theme of "you're a bystander caught up in the horrors of Silent Hill" and in approach of letting you piece together the true story after you've played the game, rather than making it all straight-forward. In fact, it's the last game to make any reference to the existence of The Order, the cult who were heavily to blame for everything in Silent Hill being so crazy in the first four games.