Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the
Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three
Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series.
Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important forerunners as
Alone in the Dark and
Resident Evil. Taking a transmedia approach and underlining the designer's cinematic and literary influences, he uses the narrative structure; the techniques of imagery, sound, and music employed; the game mechanics; and the fiction, artifact, and gameplay emotions elicited by the games to explore the specific fears survival horror games are designed to provoke and how the experience as a whole has made the
Silent Hill series one of the major landmarks of video game history.
About the AuthorBernard Perron is Professor of Cinema at the Universite de Montreal and coeditor, with Mark J. P. Wolf, of the
Landmark Video Games series.
Book InformationISBN 9780472051625
Author Bernard PerronFormat Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 277g