Silent Hill: Homecoming European release pushed back

  • Posted October 13th, 2008 at 17:16 EDT by
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According to CVG, PlayStation 3's psycho-chiller Silent Hill: Homecoming will no longer be available this year in Europe. It's down for release in February 2009 instead.

CVG thinks that localisation demands are to blame, which is annoying -- we had hoped the dark old days of staggered global releases were behind us. For shame, Konami. Straight to bed with no supper for you.

Homecoming is the sixth entrant in the Silent Hill series and the first to be developed outside Japan. Despite underwhelming previews, initial reports from North American critics suggest developer Double Helix has made a decent fist of things. Startlingly enough, the game has been banned in Austraila in light of its taste for limb removal and red icky stuff.

PS3 owners at least have the wonderful Siren: Blood Curse to fall back on, but how will Xbox 360 survival horror fans solace themselves over the festive period? We suppose there's always Dead Space.

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  1. SamTheSkater

    • 5:29pm BST - October 13th, 2008
    • 1

    that's not fare.

  2. Odium_Generis_Humani

    • 5:59pm BST - October 13th, 2008
    • 2

    It's a shame, too.  Very creepy.  My only complaint?  The lighting effect for the flashlight isn't as impressive as the other Silent Hill games.  It's like the batteries in the flashlight are dying (which would be a cool game feature if that were the case, lol).

  3. Excesse | Excesse

    • 6:42pm BST - October 13th, 2008
    • 3

    doom 4 will pwn all of em

  4. Mr_WolF

    • 6:58pm BST - October 13th, 2008
    • 4

    no thx

  5. Fiddlesworth

    • 7:00pm BST - October 13th, 2008
    • 5

    I recommend picking up the Blu-ray of SIREN: Blood Curse for £18, out October 31st in the UK and probably earlier that week in Europe.

  6. chomperbull

    • 7:16pm BST - October 13th, 2008
    • 6

    silent hill is amazing best game out since mgs4 flashlight isn't suppose to be strong its a dark erie game and yes it is way better than siren and condemned2

  7. STEPYOURGAMEUP

    • 7:48pm BST - October 13th, 2008
    • 7

    DEAD SPACE will own this game.

  8. SamTheSkater

    • 9:05pm BST - October 13th, 2008
    • 8

    well i thought this might happen, i'm actually not surprised. but i hope my other 2 pre-ordered horror games (siren: blood curse and dead space) don't get delayed. and LittleBigPlanet is just around the corner, so why care about anything else?

  9. zakruz | zakruz

    • 4:40am BST - October 14th, 2008
    • 9

    Will it come to 360 this year? In that case I'll get it on 360..

  10. RTs42 | ags2yvx18o

    • 6:03am BST - October 14th, 2008
    • 10

    To bad Silent Hill Homecoming looked really awsome

  11. m1ster0

    • 6:40am BST - October 14th, 2008
    • 11

    Where´s the problem? I´m from Germany, got the US version from Canada for a week now. The game is also playable in German... I don´t understand why they delay a "complete and finished" title!? Should be a problem with the European market in some way.

  12. dmr87

    • 7:17am BST - October 14th, 2008
    • 12

    Region free games for PS3 so just import, not that hard.

  13. Infernoz0 | Oblivian_92

    • 7:25am BST - October 14th, 2008
    • 13

    i'll skip this one

  14. gingo | gingo

    • 9:14am BST - October 14th, 2008
    • 14

    psn id: gingo.... companies should really be prepared for localisation issues when releasing in europe and show develop to compensate for that

  15. m1ster0

    • 9:33am BST - October 14th, 2008
    • 15

    What do you mean with "localisation issues"?

    The game is ready to be shipped worldwide (with all "needed" languages already included in the US version). The game will be cut in Germany too (I´m sure) but the uncut version also includes the language. Very confusing... 

  16. bent_toe

    • 3:43pm BST - October 14th, 2008
    • 16

    Who cares?

    Dead space and Alone in the dark will keep me busy for a long time.

  17. Aphexman

    • 3:52pm BST - October 14th, 2008
    • 17

    after bad reviews they decided to improve quality and polish it for europe.

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