Footage of Climax Studios Los Angeles’ shelved Silent Hill game for PlayStation 3 has surfaced online, offering a tantalizing glimpse at the spooky horror title that never came to pass.
The game was pitched in the mid-2000s to Konami and would have featured a new protagonist, Father Hector Santos, who upon receiving a distress call from his niece finds himself travelling to a mysterious town in Arizona.
While not technically set in the franchise’s eponymous, fog-coated town itself, the game would have still included a number of key elements of the psychological horror series, such as combat, exploration, puzzle solving, plus changing environments as the malevolent ‘Otherworld’ takes over.
Silent Hill PS3 footage showcases familiar series tropes
Apparently, the world would have been corrupted by the memories of Silent Hill’s bloody past. This isn’t the first time the series has taken place outside of the iconic town either, as Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill 4: The Room, and Silent Hill Homecoming all featured areas outside of that location.
Sadly, the PS3-exclusive project didn’t get the green light, and Konami didn’t seem interested when Climax pitched it as an episodic romp titled Broken Covenant for multiple platforms, either.
Check out some gameplay footage of the lost Silent Hill PS3 game below.