Silent Hill Shattered Memories

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is the reimaging of the Original Silent Hill. The base story stays the same: Harry's Car crashes, he loses his daughter and sets out into the town of Silent Hill. However the rest of the story is a completely original game. The game is set in the 2000's not in the 60s/70s. The game begins after the events where Harry is having psychological counciling. The scene cuts to Harry in his crashed car, in which he wonders into Silent Hill. He has a drink at the bar where he is startled to notice that his drivers licence says he's from the town. He asks the barmaid if she has seen his daughter, but she hasn't. He dials 911 on his cellphone but the operator can't hear him, even with full signal on his phone...Then things get weird, and the town slowly starts to change...

The gameplay is simple. The whole town including all buildings are already rendered, which means there are NO load times, you can pop in and out of the buildings live. Which means enemies will follow you: Try and jump the fence? You can but your enemies will either jump it too or will drag you by your ankle back into the hellish nightmare. In which you will notice then next thing: There's no combat system!
The only thing you have at your defence will be flares which you can store, which will momentarily ward off attackers, but not for long. No weapons, no hand to hand combat, it's the matter of run or die.
Harry does however have a cellphone in which he can make calls, send and receive txts, listen to voicemail, as well as load and save his game. Harry will also be able to take pictures.
This Silent Hill has also done away with going up to an object and pressing a button to find out if the object is useless or not the character will have to interact themselves with the environment, the camera comes in handy too, taking photos can reveal information about Silent Hill's past, instead of having to read diary's left by people. If something nasty happened in a room, take a picture and find out. If someone went crazy they'd scrawl it on the wall, take a picture and read it for later. Voicemail calls and txts will also reveal stuff, apparently demons and ghosts have the ability to leave a voicemail.
The static is back, and it comes from your cellphone, and out of the wiiremote speaker, as well as voicemail and calls made by other characters such as Cybil.
Once more your cellphone does not pause the action, so you can be attacked while using it, so be careful.
The main addition to this game is that you have a flashlight at your disposal, in which your wiimote will act as the torch, your nunchuck's analogue stick will move your character. Z runs, C does a 180 turn, and the A and B buttons work the Cellphone. Mentioned before your wiiremote is used to interacting with objects too, and solving puzzles.

However the most brilliant thing about the gameplay is yet to be revealed. The game watches you, and how you act in situations, this will change how enemies look, how enemies behave, how main characters behave towards you, and the layout and look of the town. Say for example if you decide to look at a playboy magazine instead of checking out the map first. The game would mark that you are not a practical person, and will adjust to make things harder for you, or the enemies may become more female/male in shape. The town reacts to the player's psyche, because the player will effect the character's psyche.

The graphics for this game are of course not as good as the PS3 or 360. However the team behind Origins is working on this one. They plan to make the graphics (for the primary Wii version) "as if they were a SD version of the PS3" the most impressive thing seen are the lighting effects, every snowflake casts a shadow.
The fog of Silent Hill is gone however. The otherworld of Silent Hill is now a snowy icy land using the dark instead of grey fog, shrouding your world in darkness, rather than the memorable grey fog.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is primarily a Wii title. However lower graphical versions of it will be out on PSP and PS2. Shattered Memories is out this year.