Norman Reedus (Daryl de The Walking Dead) va jouer dans le nouveau jeu vidéo Silent Hill

The first real bit of exciting news is finally starting to trickle out of Gamescom in Germany where Sony announced a dream collaboration between video game legend Hideo Kojima, Hollywood heavyweight Guillermo Del Toro, and one of TV’s newest darlings Norman Reedus.  Norman Reedus is best known as fan favorite Daryl Dixon on AMC’s smash hit The Walking Dead.  Given Reedus’ talent taking out “Walkers” on The Walking Dead, it was only natural that Kojuma and Del Toro made him their resounding pick for the latest installment of Silent Hill.  For those of you who aren’t real gamers, Silent Hill was one of the first legitimately fantastic entries in the Horor Genre video game library.

Silent Hill was, along with Resident Evil, the only games that would fill me with literal dread when playing alone.  Challenges to myself to play the game alone, in the dark would not often last long when I was younger and while Resident Evil was plenty scary, Silent Hill was just on another level.  With Resident Evil you’d get past the BOO part and feel relatively safe for a little while until the game started to ratchet up the tension again.  With Silent Hill… you just never knew what was going to happen.  You’d walk through utterly desolate streets for hours at a time, with not one single encounter to speak off.  As you collected clues throughout the abandoned town you never felt safe, nothing has happened in 30 minutes, something will surely jump out at me around the corner.  But it never came until you least expected it and then it would get you good! You’d be pulled off for a half hour of frenzied activity, fleeing for your life! Terrified at every turn! Then, silence again… but with the silence, a general malaise… you never felt safe.

En tant que grand fan de Walking Dead et de Silent Hill, j'étais ravi d'entendre parler de ce trio made in Heaven ! Dans la bande-annonce dévoilée par Sony (disponible ci-dessous), on peut voir une silhouette solitaire errer dans des rues abandonnées étrangement familières. Lorsque son visage est enfin révélé, on voit apparaître le visage familier de Norman Reedus. Hideo Kojima a été interviewé en 2012 et a déclaré à propos de sa vision de Silent Hill : "Silent Hill se déroule dans une pièce fermée et ne nécessite pas d'action complète afin que nous puissions nous concentrer sur la qualité graphique. Les ennemis n'ont pas besoin d'être nombreux ou de se déplacer rapidement. Il suffit que les graphismes et la présentation soient effrayants. En tant que créateur d'un jeu d'action en monde ouvert, un tel jeu est très enviable."

J'attends avec impatience !