Silent Hill 4: The Room

Silent Hill 4: The Room
North American cover art
Developer(s)	Team Silent[a]
Publisher(s)	Konami
Director(s)	Suguru Murakoshi
Producer(s)	Akira Yamaoka Akihiro Imamura
Programmer(s)	Kosuke Iwakura
Artist(s)	Masashi Tsuboyama
Writer(s)	Suguru Murakoshi
Composer(s)	Akira Yamaoka
Series	Silent Hill
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2 Xbox Microsoft Windows
Release	PlayStation 2, Xbox JP: June 17, 2004 (PS2) NA: September 7, 2004 EU: September 17, 2004 Microsoft Windows NA: September 7, 2004 EU: September 24, 2004
Genre(s)	Survival horror
Mode(s)	Single-player

Silent Hill 4: The Room^[b] is a 2004 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, and published by Konami. The fourth installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in Japan in June and in North America and Europe in September. Silent Hill 4 was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows. Its soundtrack was released at the same time. In 2012, it was released on the Japanese PlayStation Network. On October 2, 2020, it was re-released on GOG.com with patches to make it playable on Windows 10.

Unlike the previous installments, which were set primarily in the town of Silent Hill, this game is set in the southern part of the fictional city of Ashfield, and follows Henry Townshend as he attempts to escape from his locked-down apartment. During the course of the game, Henry explores a series of supernatural worlds and finds himself in conflict with an undead serial killer named Walter Sullivan.

Silent Hill 4 features an altered gameplay style with third-person navigation and plot elements taken from previous installments. Upon its release, the game received generally favorable reviews from critics, but its departure from the traditional formula of the previous games proved to be divisive. However, the game did receive praise for implementing some unique gameplay mechanics like the hauntings within the apartment.
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