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Silent Hill Origins spooks PS2

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Jan 22, 2008 3:44 pm PT

Previously PSP-exclusive prequel set to haunt Sony's legacy console with tweaked controls.

The Silent Hill series is returning to its old haunting grounds. Konami today announced that the PlayStation Portable's prequel to the franchise--Silent Hill Origins--is being developed for the series' previous home console, the PlayStation 2.

Whenever it launches (Konami did not specify a release window), Silent Hill Origins for the PS2 will follow Travis Grady, a trucker who gets sidetracked in the mist-shrouded town and soon discovers its singularly unnerving atmosphere. As for improvements to the PSP game, Konami has said only that it will update the game's control scheme, particularly for combat situations.

Silent Hill Origins joins a handful of other games to make the PSP-to-PS2 jump, including Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, and Twisted Metal: Head On. For more on Silent Hill Origins, check out GameSpot's review of the PSP original.

98 Comments

  • Reqwez

    Posted Mar 1, 2008 7:56 am PT

    I'm waiting for (maybe last) silent hill for ps2!

  • eldertaco

    Posted Feb 17, 2008 9:22 pm PT

    I wonder if it will be as cheap as the psp version?

  • jslip3

    Posted Feb 15, 2008 2:48 pm PT

    It should have come out for the ps2 in the first place...

  • FFadikt

    Posted Feb 10, 2008 2:08 pm PT

    the graphics looked great on the psp, but i don't think it'll look as good on the ps2

  • world69star69

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 11:48 pm PT

    I am tired of hearing all you freaks saying the "now i don't have to get a psp" or "that was the only reason to buy one" or some of the other lame crap you people are spewing. The psp is great, the reasons to get one: high res graphics on a widescreen, best portable ever! Console quality titles on a portable, not hacked small 3 generation ago games like other portables. It plays movies, music, skype, it's the god of portable emulators, you can have atari, nes, snes, genesis, tg16, neo geo, mame, n-64, and ps1 games, on it! It will play all the old ps1 games, You can have complete collections of consoles games on it, ie 1000's of games on one mem stick! IT can play hardware acclerated quake 1, and 2, and doom wolfenstien 3d, duke 3d, and all the dos legacy games. You have internet, internet radio, rss, photo, game sharing, remote play, it works like a console too, as you can hook it up to the tv, so its like a portable game and dvd system.

    The games are great too, mostly teen and mature games, not kiddie games like ds. Its about 4 gens ahead of ds in architecture. It has a faster cpu, and gpu plus more ram then the ps2! Some of the greatest games on it are, final fantasy tactics, star wars rouge squadron, socom , syphon filter, daxter, Dracula x(syphony of night +rondo), silent hill origins, tekken dark res, prince of Persia rival swords, burnout legends, wipeout pure and pulse, metal gear portable ops, medieval resurrection, jeane d'arc, full versions of tomb raider legend and anniversary, new gta lc and vc games,that play and look exactly like the console version. Thats just a snipit of the good games out for it. New games coming out, final fantasy crisis core, god of war chains of Olympus, dungeon explorer, oblivion. There is no other system , i can play favorites like final fantasy 1-9, suikoden 1 and 2, vagrant story, vandal hearts, ogre tactics, and keep most of them on the memory stick, especially now that 4gb is only $40, and 16gb sticks are coming out!

    There are more places to play then on a bus, if that is the only place you play a psp then why did you buy it? I drive, i don't take public transportation, i bring it to work, take play it in the bathroom, on the couch while girl is watching tv, etc.. Silent hill o can should be played with headphones in a dark room. The control scheme is fine, as are most psp control schemes, I don't see why you people need it to be exactly the same as a ps2 controller? The psp is great! As you can see there are a slew of reasons to get one! Its the best gadget purchase i have ever made!

  • FantasticalZom

    Posted Jan 27, 2008 10:02 pm PT

    Umm... correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the series "actually born" on the PS1, Orasion? You know... with Silent Hill 1?

  • Orasion_Seiz

    Posted Jan 27, 2008 2:20 am PT

    Thats very nice of Konami to put also this game on the PS2, where the series was actually born.

  • Famished_Corpse

    Posted Jan 24, 2008 12:32 pm PT

    Dawn_Patrol, maybe your hands are too big, who knows, but I've beaten Silent Hill: Origins at least 11 times now, and I have never had a single cramp, let alone any complaint on how the placement of the analog nub affects gameplay.
    ~
    tao_interactive, Silent Hill: Origins is nothing like Silent Hill 2, it's its own game on its completely own merits. You are a fool if you think otherwise.
    ~
    BobtheVila, if it's really that simple, then find the source code, subdivide EVERYTHING in the game, and release/distribute it yourself. Otherwise, just be happy they are doing it at all. ~
    Anyways, there are a lot of moronic comments going towards this game or what Konami has decided to do for it by bringing it to the PS2. Just play the version that is on whatever you own and enjoy it, or don't play it at all and shut up. ~ Personally, I'm insanely happy Konami has decided to do this, as anything to do with Silent Hill I am obsessed with, so the more they release the better...and Silent Hill: Origins is a damn good game.

  • CloudStrife9288

    Posted Jan 24, 2008 6:33 am PT

    slob on my nob

  • Dawn_Patrol

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 9:24 pm PT

    I played it and finished it once on the PSP. But thanks to the poor placement of the thumb stick, my thumb gets sore within 20 minutes or so of playing the game. So I have only finished SH:O once. It is good news it is heading to the PS2 as a pad and tv screen will be even better. The PSP version would have been good if the design for the PSP's thumb pad was in a different position, idiots they should have tested it for cramp in the thumb, etc, before releasing the damn machine.

  • ungodlyabyss

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 8:12 pm PT

    I have the game. Its a really cool SH. The combat in the game was terrible though.

  • rocketman001

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 5:33 pm PT

    Can't wait till this game comes out

  • Rhubarb9

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 3:55 pm PT

    don't have to borrow my friends PSP now ^^

    the game must have sold crap on PSP :l

  • tao_interactive

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 2:50 pm PT

    Now everyone can play SilentHill 2, good news

  • Adrik

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 1:38 pm PT

    YES!!! One of the best news of my month!!!! )

  • crowbarska

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 1:37 pm PT

    Well this doesn't really affect me at all because I already own the game and I won't be buying it again, but surely porting some of the more popular titles can't be helping PSP sales? I would have thought Sony would want all the PSP exclusives they can get.

  • TheKungFool

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 11:02 am PT

    I wish alot more games would take this trend! I hate gaming on tiny handheld screens, but I like a fair amount of the games coming out, especially stuff from the Final Fantasy and CastleVania series.

  • Nawras

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 10:47 am PT

    concentrate on silent hill 5 please!

  • Kenji_Masamune

    Posted Jan 23, 2008 10:18 am PT

    meh.. and I just bought it for christmas. oh well.

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