It wasn't made for the 360 & PS3 because of the budget I bet. No one tries to make a masterpiece with mediocre tools. This is a filler game (much like that shitty Castlevania Wii fighter). Just a minor mis-step in the series that will soon be forgotten.. Shame on Konami for allowing this!

dude i think your getting a bit excited. I think its good they are trying something new with the series. could be a really fun game.

I'm with blood-sicles on this one. I really dislike these ideas. In Silent Hill, you should be able to kill the creatures, but have to expend a lot of ammunition to do so, which deters you from fighting. Making the conscious decision to evade gives you a true feeling of survival because you are trying to remember, and budget, your ammunition. When you are told you can't kill, then you don't need to worry about combat. The entire "fight or flight" mentality is taken away from you. Think back to the original SH game, when those shadow babies were around. Once you heard them, you immediately drew your gun and looked around. Most of them time, in any of the SH games, you kill out of necessity, and not because you wanted to. You needed to defend yourself. Now, if I hear something, I know that I have to run, which is stupid. SH in the hands of Helix has negatively impacted the series. What is with the ice now? SH: Shattered memories should've followed the EXACT same policy as the remake of Resident Evil 1: update the graphics, add some rooms, vary the zombie types (adding runners), and leave the rest of it alone. Look at the screenshots... Cybil has her tits popping out of her shirt. SH is NOT that type of series. Team Silent needs to reclaim this from Helix.

I understand and somewhat agree with the aforementioned gripes, except that I just got done with Homecoming, which is basically a fighting based action game, and realizing that I felt like I just got done with Resident Evil 4 again. Having a combat system made it not feel like Silent Hill. I like that in the previous 5 releases, you're a normal person who doesn't know how to fight well and wield weaponry, as most of us actually don't. These games are about the feeling of fear, and not being able to just whip out a hunting rifle from my back pocket is a step closer to reality. Thats a very long winded way of saying I hope its good!!

On a side note, I'm terrified that having everything as an ice world is gonna ruin the feel. I got the impression from the other games that the Otherworld is a hot, sweaty, stinking steamy place of awful, not just, ya know, cold.

Silent Hill 1-3 combat wasn’t anything special, but it was comfortable. SH4 wasn’t even originally a silent hill game so I won’t count it. SH Origins was a Post-RE4 game, so they decided combat was important, and thankfully they changed their original RE4 inspired control scheme before it hit shelves, and ended up with more of a Dead Rising combat setup. SH Homecoming went way too far with the combat, and Double Helix (Homecoming Developers) decided to add dodges and timing your hits while you fight other humans. The movie put everything from the games into one package, but the Silent Hill feeling was missing. Climax (Origins Developers) is back in the driver’s seat and it looks like they know what they are doing. The series went from Survival Horror to Action Horror, and the action takes away from the horror experience. Being completely helpless is a truly frightening feeling, so I am excited to hear that Horror is the main focus of this game. Silent Hill isn’t always a hot, steamy, stinky place; it is whatever the protagonist feels deep down (their own personal hell). This is also why Pyramid Head belongs only in James’ hell, because James made him. Budget does not make a game; it is up to the developers to truly believe in the material to make the best game they can, and the publishers to supply them with the proper funding. The Wii is not mediocre, and is in some ways superior to the 360 or PS3. This game was made with the Wii controls in mind, and I would like to see a third party company take some advantage of the Wii’s capabilities for a change. As for the tits hanging out, that all depends on what type of person you are. Another great thing about this game is that you get to help design your own personal hell by taking the personalized test. Climax seems to know the heart of Silent Hill, and I can only hope people can be more open minded.