There are many excellent survival horror games on the market, but there are very few games as disturbing as Silent Hill. Whilst playing, there are moments when you will be completely freaked out by the bizarre and nightmarish things that are happening to your character Harry Mason, as the game charts his search for his missing daughter, lost after a car accident in the deserted town of Silent Hill. Don't expect an easy time in this game, the town is filled with horrific beasts and apparitions, which will chase and attack you. As in most games of this nature, you're aim is to explore the eerie town and delve deeper into its secrets by solving puzzles (usually morbid or goulish in nature!) and collect ammunition and weapons to help you survive the onslaught. But even during the quiet moments, the sense of dread is so realistic that you will be completely drawn in to the game. The story is bizarre to say the least, and often very distressing. Even the "best ending" to the game (there are several) is downbeat and elegiac. It might sound like I am exaggerating about things here, but I can clearly remember several sections of the game when there was nothing to do but panic, a feeling that no other game has since produced. Some events in the game are completely surreal, with strange noises and phantom figures appearing with no explanation, the result being that playing Silent Hill is like living inside someone's nightmare. This game should be experienced by everyone brave enough to take the challenge.