Silent Hill director leaps to Grasshopper - Report

Sounds cool. Wonder what it'll be

Save for US basketball, so-called 'dream teams' always are a big gamble. Somehow I suspect this one will actually deliver just an insanely funny spoof horror game - the kind of thing Resident Evil could have been if its cheesiness hadn't been taken seriously. But I doubt this game will be groundbreaking in the end. Too much design experience combined heightens the chances all involved will play it safer than they could, especially under such a banner as EA's.

Resident Evil creator and Silent Hill director, good things to come.

'leaps to', geddit???

bye bye silent hill music, no more of that haunting electric guitar strums, no more rusted steel sound rubs together and no more creepy banjo stream that serves as an opening to the classic SH1 theme

Rest in peace, Silent Hill. We had some terrifying times together.

EA paid a premium for Akira and I am sure he won't give 100%, at least I hope.

Just the thought of having Shinji Mikami and Akira Yamaoka working together on a horror game is sending chills, both of pleasure and fear, down my spine.

The horror genre back baby >:)

Grasshopper just gets better and better, I hope one day they are a major development house because they are very good.

ah yes Grasshopper

I still wonder what the future for Silent Hill is without Akira Yamaokes involvement. Without Akira Silent Hill is pretty much dead in the water!

A new horror game being produced by Shinji Mikami the creator of Resident Evil, being directed by Suda 51, and featuring music from Silent Hill legend Akira Yamaoke? That is one winning combination!!!!!

Start with 1 part Suda and 1 part Mikami in a small pot. Bring to a slow boil, stirring occasionally, and allow to simmer while covered. Add in an equal part Yamaoke. Remove from heat when mixture is complete and enjoy! The recipe for success.

Man..that good for Akira Yamaoka, but what's the point of silent hill without his incomparable music. The soundtrack of SH 3 still creeps me out.

I'm looking forward to finding more about this game whatever it may be. I'm always all ears for a new survival horror game.

wow this should be awesome. not biggest fan from sh but i remember the music was tight. also glad to see light shed on this game, was gettin suspicious.

Killer7/Biohazard with Silent Hill music... best game ever?

Wow, all-star cast for the win! Hoping this will be good! I love love love Yamaoka's music (especially his Silent Hill stuff), so I'm happy to see that he'll continue to make music for horror games!

Eternal Darkness was awesome! The roaches crawling across the screen was so freaky the first time it happened.

I haven't played a truly scary game since Eternal Darkness...that game was disturbing to say the least.

Sounds more like they fired him for all the crappy sequels. There is nothing genius about this guy. The Japanese game market has suffered the past few years because they churn out sequel after sequel with little in the way of innovation. US game designers have handed the Japanese their bumpers in the past few years. That little island has nothing going for it these days except Wii fit games.

this is GREAT news for Wii and NMH2 fans!

This is really good news. Can't wait to see what Suda-51, Shinji Mikami and Akira Yamaoka come up with. Should be something awesome.

Two geniuses working on a game? Awesome!

Could it be Kurayama, a game Suda-51 was working on months (or years?) ago? Some Kafka-esque kind of horror game involving the difference between light and dark or something. Can't exactly remember wat it was. I read it in the Edge long ago and was immediately enthusiastic about it.

@ yixingtpot you are absolutely correct!!! cuz of the xbroke the PS3 gets dvd quality game not blu-ray quality games why? cuz people are stupid supporting the xbroke (thumbs down here they come lol) if they kill the xbroke we will see a new gen of gaming, more awesome games will be coming.. so far the the only PS3 game that are considered blu-ray maximized are MGS4, uncharted2 and i dont know lol.... "but yea its true you dont wanna go using 4 dvds for a single game cuz mahn... its a pain and a lot of work let just work on a single dvd less work more profit buahahaha" - xbroke said..

XBROKE=dvd end of story, Wii =dvd end of story. Can i watch a Blu-ray movie on dvd? hell no, so why do people think they are getting anything more than less than Blu-ray quality games when they port dvd garbage to PS3 from XBROKE? Put a Blu-ray movie into your XBROKE or WII WII PEE PEE, see what happens. It obviously won't work. SO, that's why i'll NEVER pay $60 for a dvd level port from XBROKE to PS3. I'll only pay $60 for a Blu-ray PS3 target platform game, if it's a good game overall to begin with.

Unfortunately ever since the second Silent Hill... Fatal Frame series has replaced them in supplying me my supply of horror gaming. This is much more effective and cost-efficient way of expanding than spending 100+ million on an establish IP...

@Houtakiboy It is kind of sad that we have not had a really frightening game this console generation. I think Dead Space would have been great if the actual scares didn't stop after the third level. RE5 is filled with bullets and sunshine, and while Dead Space is pretty fun and can be scary for a little bit, the actual horror just doesn't hold up. I'm hoping either this game or Dead Space 2 changes that, though this game is sounding more promising than Dead Space 2's red planet.

@yixingtpot I'm sure everyone is glad you like your PS3 and only your PS3, but I think it's safe to say that if the best name you can come up with is "XBROKE" that no one's going to take you seriously. But then again, you can be the expert at telling us how Xbox 360 exclusive games have obviously NEVER been able to compete with the PS3 exclusives. Nope. No good graphics over here in DVD land. :roll: Seriously though, fistbump of approval for coming up with "XBROKE." You're definitely one of the creative types, so don't you lose that spark of yours, bro. You'll be needing it against those sassy guys who use common sense. Those guys can be a real pain for the fanboy bunch. ;)

@yixingtpot Because console makes the game, right? Anyway. There is something significantly awesome about this team-up. Goichi Suda knows how to make things over the top and strange; Mikami knows how to make a good horror game; Yamaoka knows how to chill you to the bone with just sound. With all of those combined, we might end up with one of the most psychologically manipulative games of all time. Makes for good horror, if you ask me.

cool

as long as XBROKE is factored in, or worse yet the Wii, we can't expect much from these games for pushing what can be considered a worthy PS3 Blu-ray level game like Uncharted 2 is. This generation is being stuck in dvd land of PS2 by Wii60. No matter what this turns out to be, it won't be a PS3 level game, it will be poop.

This sounds good, always love horror games.

Plzzzzz give us a decent horror game !! This generation doesn't have any and that's pissing me off ..

Its sad to think that if there are future Silent Hill games, they will be lacking a vital element in Yamaoaka's genius. I'm glad, however, that following a slew of reasonably okay to downright awful (Homecoming, anyone?) sequels, that Shattered Memories received great review scores. At least he left on a high note.

very awesome news

YES!!!! 3 horror gods on one project, FINALLY. Akira is a musical genius, mikami is a legend, and Suda is one Tarantino of video games. Im in heaven to see what the 3 can create, and what better genre than HORROR :) Maybe this will ignite the survival horror genre again.

Interesting indeed! "mysterious unique action-packed horror game" Excited about that line above^, we need more horror or survival horror games!

While part of me thinks that talent should jump ship when their studio begins to make horrible decisions, it's not like Grasshopper Manufacture is any better, while Suda is very talented at giving us some great games, they don't think broader in releasing them on multiple platforms, the first No More Heroes sold horribly on the Wii despite critics loving it, and I expect No More Heroes 2 to do just the same. Suda was also the writer and director for Fatal Frame IV, I don't know how much say he had regarding publishing but it was a big effing mistake to give Nintendo publishing ownership of the title, because they never released it outside of Japan. Strangely they're delaying No More Heroes 2 in Japan while they work on the Xbox 360 and PS3 ports of the first No More Heroes, and they're not giving it the same treatment of the first NMH for the Xbox 360 and PS3 outside of Japan. Why they keep working on Wii titles despite nobody buying them is beyond me. They obviously make good games but people don't want them, I blame the Wii demographics most of all, but by now they should know better and start delivering their talent on the other consoles. Anyhow, I still play these games whichever console they're on, so I'm glad such a talented composer is joining Grasshopper Manufacture.

Cool, but what the **** is it about. I'm sure it was announced over a year ago, so... Has it been a year? I'll check later. XD Whatever, as long as Suda devotes enough time to this if he's actually starting production on NMH3 or any other meth and murder masterpiece he comes up with. :)

this is going to be interesting.

It's good that his talent won't go to waste. :D

Awesome!

excited.

Thats a deadly combination there!

Sweet!

he looks like he was in Fifth Element

i cannot wait. whatever this winds up being, as of now, its like the crazy love child of strange, horror masterpieces. so, that being said, it will either be beautiful or nasty and inbred.