

Resident Evil 7 is an excellent game for any Silent Hill fan looking to branch out, as it offers similar ideas met with drastically differing outcomes. While the two series are staples of the horror genre and often borrow ideas from one another, the games couldn't be any more different in terms of where their stories end up going. As RE7's plot really gets going, it starts to distance itself from any Silent Hill comparisons, though it does serve as an example of what different game makers can do with similar premises. While it has plenty of its own merits, the game seems to have taken a lot of inspiration from the Silent Hill series, namely Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hills' playable teaser, P.T. The initial incident that kicks off the game's plot is straight out of Silent Hill 2: a man receives a message from his seemingly dead partner, heading to the location detailed in their message so the terror can ensue.

It would be hard to think of a better horror game than Resident Evil 7: Biohazard when it comes to recent releases.

RELATED: Bloober Team Reportedly Working on Three Other Games Besides Silent Hill For those looking for games highly reminiscent of the long-dormant franchise, here are five titles to play that will offer new takes on the Silent Hill format. What's great about the influence of the series is that some of it comes in the form of the more subtle horror that stems from the original three titles, and more action-focused horror influence comes from the later entries. Thanks to the series' influence, however, fans of the horror franchise looking for new games to scratch the Silent Hillitch don't have to look very hard, as just about any horror game released past 2002 can cite the series as an influence. The impact was so great that when the highly anticipated ninth entry in the series, Silent Hills, was canceled and its playable teaser, P.T., taken off the PlayStation store, fans clung to their downloaded copies of P.T. like nothing seen in the industry before. Each game in the franchise explored different elements of the human psyche and, while some definitely vary in quality, the series as a whole had a major impact on the entire horror game genre. It's a shame that, at the current time of writing, it seems like Konami has shelved the Silent Hill series.
