You know you've had a great Thanksgiving if it included gorging yourself on delicious food, spending time with loved ones, and then playing gruesome video games. Yesterday, after partaking in the typical holiday stuff, my boyfriend introduced me to Silent Hill 3 for Sony Playstation.
I'm hardly a video game queen (the most recent game machine my family purchased was Super Nintendo, way back in 1991 [ahh!]), so I'm not too familiar with the game market. I don't know how long this game has been out, but I've fallen in love with it and I thought that it might be of interest to horror fiction/film/game lovers.
Silent Hill 3 features a female lead character who is trapped in a mall that is now teeming with really bizarre looking monsters. I'm not sure of the background story (I gathered that some kind of cult is involved with the mall's transformation), but that doesn't matter. All I needed to know was that the game was part puzzle, part slashing fun, and the monsters are INCREDIBLE. You'll encounter weird things with vagina dentata-like heads and come across psychotic dogs that resemble the possessed huskies in John Carpenter's The Thing. To make it even better, you can split their heads open with your light-saber to reveal a red, gaping maw!
This makes a perfect holiday gift for that special someone or for that creepy kid who sits in the corner while picking his nose.
Posted by Kate Cielinski at November 26, 2004 5:02 PM