Silent Hill 4: The Room

Gameplay

Gameplay is centered on the protagonist Henry's apartment, which is shown through a first-person perspective and contains the only save point. The other levels of the game are reached through mysterious holes formed in the apartment's bathroom and eventually laundry room.^[1][1][2] For the first half of the game the room will also heal the player.^[2] In the second half of the game, the room becomes possessed by various hauntings that drain Henry's health.^[3]

In the main levels of the game the player uses the usual third person perspective of the Silent Hill series.^[1] Unlike other games the player only has a limited item inventory which can be managed by leaving unneeded items in a chest in Henry's room.^[2] Silent Hill 4 emphasizes combat during gameplay, with a near-absence of complex puzzles in favor of simple item-seeking tasks.^[1] In the second half of the game Henry is accompanied by his neighbor Eileen Galvin; Eileen cannot die while she is with Henry, although as she takes damage she succumbs to possession. The player can also equip Eileen with a weapon to have her join Henry in combat.^[4] The damage Eileen takes in the game determines whether or not she dies during the final boss fight, directly affecting the ending achieved.^[3][5]

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM PC REQUIREMENTS

Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

MINIMUM

Pentium III or Athlon 1GHz Processor

256MB RAM

32MB GeForce3 Ti or Radeon 8500 Class Video Card

DirectX 8.1b

DirectX compatible Sound Card

4X CD-ROM Drive or 2X DVD-ROM Drive

4.7GB Hard Disk Space

RECOMMENDED

Pentium 4 or Athlon 1.4GHz Processor

512MB RAM

GeForce4 Ti or GeForce FX Video Card

8X CD-ROM Drive or 4X DVD-ROM Drive

5.2GB Hard Disk Space

USB Gamepad Controller