The locations you’ll visit will number many areas from the abandoned town – there’s an extremely creepy set of old apartment buildings early on, a hospital with zombie nurses (you can’t have a Silent Hill game without ’em), a derelict prison, hotel and parts of the town itself that you must explore in both foggy daylight and dreadful nighttime hours. What’s fantastic is that most of these areas are built to real-life scale to give them more authenticity, from the town at large to the many buildings you can enter. Artificial boundaries naturally limit your character to a few paths – streets in Silent Hill suddenly stop and drop into the abyss, as if the patch of ground you’re walking on is removed from normal space and time, and so often doors inside structures have magically broken locks that can never be pried open. Yet this nonsensical approach is sensical considering the alternate reality James is treading on. Clearly he’s not in Kansas, so why should the world around him have some sort of logic? Explore the town long enough and you’ll find dark little secrets like this.

Silent Hill is confusing to navigate. Thank goodness for this map. Install Atrac3 Codec Goldwave. Lead pipe wielding zombie nurses.