Insted of actually reviewing this game i decided to tell you how awesome this game really is, you just see for yourself

At the beginning of the game the player is introduced to the main character, James Sunderland, who has come to Silent Hill after receiving a letter asking him to come from his wife, Mary, despite the fact that she had apparently died from an unnamed illness three years prior to his return. James enters the town, only to discover it is not the same, beautiful town from the Sunderlands' past. In addition to the strange, omnipresent fog, the whole town seems to be rotting away and abandoned. Bizarre, vaguely humanoid monsters are also wandering the streets, waiting to attack James. With his path to his first destination, the lakeside Rosewater Park, cut off, James enters an apartment complex to reach what he believes could be the "special place" Mary says she is in the letter.

Inside the complex James finds a young woman who had warned him of the town's bizarre nature, and of corse he doesnt listen. Angela, lying in one of the apartments with a knife, apparently suicidal or somthing. James persuades her to hand him the knife for her own safety, after which point she flees in panic. In another room James meets an obese young man called Eddie vomiting in one of the apartment toilets, who acts very defensively over questions regarding a corpse in a refrigerator in the same apartment(orginally i thought that he most likly ate the body). James also has a brief encounter with a young girl he later discovers to be called Laura who is apparently immune to the effects of the town and has an unexplained loathing of James, as well as knowing the identity of Mary. The most disturbing "person" he encounters, however, is the monster commonly referred to as the "Pyramid Head" or "Red Pyramid", a humanoid whose head is completely covered in a giant, metal, pyramid-shaped helmet that protects him against anything James will possess in his arsenal in the game, whom James encounters twice inside the complex(altho shotgun blasts do hurt him when hes a boss).

When James finally reaches Rosewater Park, he meets a woman who is a dead ringer to Mary, but with a more provocative wardrobe and attitude who calls herself Maria.Heres where the first time through most people get confused. During the game, she shows inexplicable insight into matters that only he or Mary would know, and really makes you think How Did She Know That? kind of manner and acts in a very seductive manner towards James. Maria accompanies James in his attempt to reach his second suspected "special place": the Lakeview Hotel. On their way, however, Maria claims to see Laura, and out of concern for her she has James try to reach the girl. Their pursuit ends in the Brookhaven Hospital, where James finds Laura, but becomes angry at her for claiming to have known Mary for the past year, in clear contradictions with his belief that she has been dead for three years. Laura responds by, under the pretense of asking him to look for another letter from Mary, locking him in a room filled with covered monsters stuffed in hanging cages. After they are defeated, the hospital undergoes a sudden, dramatic change, and James and Maria attempt to flee. "Pyramid Head", however, gives chase, and kills Maria while they make their escape to an elevator. These failures drive James to refocus on his original task of finding Mary, but in finding the key to the hospital's door he is lead to the Silent Hill Historical Society.

The Historical Society ultimately becomes an exploration of two levels not noted on the town map: a disused prison and a labyrinth in which Pyramid Head apparently resides. None of which makes any sence seeing that a "Historical Society" should be a muesum or somthing.In this level, James inexplicably finds Maria, who greets him with disillusions of Mary and provocations, alive and locked in a prison cell. He is unable to rescue her, however, before she is killed, presumably by Pyramid Head again. This level also provides revelations on why Angela and Eddie are in the town as well. A newspaper clipping implies that Angela killed her father, who abused her physically, mentally and sexually with the complicity of her mother. The player is required to save her from a monstrous representation of her father, but she is still inexplicably hostile towards James. Eddie is revealed through his own monologues to have snapped after years of verbal abuse by his peers, killed the dog of a football player and then shot the dog's owner in the leg as well. It becomes clear that upon his arrival in Silent Hill he has gone psychotic, seeing everyone as making fun of him, and he has resorted to killing everyone he encounters. He first attempts to explain away the path of bodies he has left, but ultimately he turns on James as well and must be killed as the level's boss. After this point, James seriously questions his perception of the events leading to his arrival in the town, and again makes no freaking sence.

Finally, James takes a boat( yah i know he could walk but if you were in silent hill would you go on foot?) to the Lakeview Hotel, where he finds Laura once again. She gives him the letter she claimed to be seeking earlier, which states that Mary wanted to adopt the girl while confirming her claims of knowing her for the past year. The final truth is shown to James when he watches a tape he apparently left at the hotel on a previous visit, which shows him that he killed his terminally ill wife himself, smothering her with a pillow to stop both their suffering. Inexplicably, however, the radio James has been carrying to warn him of the approach of monsters sends a message in Mary's voice, asking for him to find her. James explores the rest of the hotel, which has undergone a transformation on the scale of the hospital. During this, the fate of Angela is revealed as James finds her ascending a burning staircase (which, according to the map, does not exist), unable to cope with her guilt any longer and apparently resigned to live in her hell for eternity.

The climax of the game approaches as James finds another inexplicably resurrected Maria, who is promptly killed by two Pyramid Head monsters. James comes to the conclusion that Maria is nothing more than a delusion created by the town and his mind, a hallucination based on what he wanted Mary to be. James must now fight the two Pyramid Heads, who are still apparently immune from James' attacks but will, after taking enough hits from his weapons, kill themselves with their own spears. They are then revealed to carry the keys to a large metallic complex, where James finds a woman dressed as Mary and the final fight of the game takes place.

So as you can tell this game makes no sence at times, but this shit your pants thriler is quite worth the gameplay.