First-Person Silent Hill: Townfall Transports the Series' Survival Horror to Scotland

Tonight has brought our champion look yet astatine Silent Hill: Townfall, the adjacent installment successful Konami's classical endurance fearfulness bid that's acceptable and developed successful Scotland.

In an archetypal trailer shown during Sony's State of Play broadcast, and past Konami's ain dedicated Silent Hill Transmission show, fans got to spot the suitably foggy mounting of St. Amelia and the game's protagonist Simon Ordell, each successful Townfall's first-person perspective.

Made by Scottish improvement squad Screen Burn (of Stories Untold and Observation fame) and published by Annapurna Interactive, the crippled looks acceptable to connection a unsocial instrumentality connected the Silent Hill formula, portion inactive retaining immoderate halfway elements.

So, yes, you tin support yourself from horrible-headed enemies with planks of wood, pipes and a pistol. But you tin besides usage stealth to sneak and fell — equipped with a portable "CRTV" device.

The analog-looking CRTV handheld is simply a instrumentality to present communicative (and you'll request to tune it during gameplay) but besides a clever mode to amusement the outlines of enemies portion you're ducked down cover. The outlines of said enemies amusement up successful its static, which is simply a clever touch.

Townfall's communicative is designed to beryllium thing of a mystery, with Ordell repeatedly waking up successful St. Amelia. One infinitesimal successful the Silent Hill Transmission highlighted the information helium was wearing a infirmary tag connected his wrist. Could it each beryllium a dream, oregon hallucination from wrong a coma?

Tonight's look astatine the crippled concluded without immoderate further connection connected erstwhile we'll get to play Townfall ourselves. (Several references to 8-19 successful the trailer had maine reasoning it was acceptable for an August 19 date, but alas this was not confirmed.) It is, however, present disposable to wishlist connected PlayStation, and connected PC via Steam and the Epic Game Store.

For overmuch more, drawback up with everything announced during Sony's State of Play broadcast close here.

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