Downpour Area Map

[Henderson]

Hello

Does anyone know where in the city will show Downpour?

I'm really enjoying what I have seen the Downpour, but every SH game they show a new area of the city, the city will only grow ¬¬

I always had the idea that Silent Hill was a small town or medium, but the way it is going, Silent Hill will become a New York ..

I hope this is really the last part of the city ..

Sorry for english

[knwlss]

Something like this (a rough guess):

[Henderson]

It makes no sense ...

This area should be Pleasant River

[redrum]

It makes no sense ...

This area should be Pleasant River

*Points to the small river and Pleasant River's name* :p also that map isnt quite to the scale of the earlier areas


Edit: I notice there is actually a trainline coming into town, so techincally the council (or whatever the term is in in the US) might have built into some old tunnels beneath the town to extend the line

[Chiral_Spiral]

If that mock-up map is accurate, it looks like an entire second town on the other side of Toluca Lake (wasn't Shepherd's Glen supposed to be on the other side of the lake?)

Not that I'm going to lose sleep over the geography of Silent Hill, if they need to double the size of the town to give us more space to roam around in I'm all for it. I wonder how much of it will be accessible from the start?

[redrum]

I reckon we'd get a new map in each area we visit

Also looking closer, the map is definately not to scale, unless St. Mary's Orphanage is like as wide as the lake lol

Just remembered this screen I took from the E3 2011 vid

[gustavopi]

If that mock-up map is accurate, it looks like an entire second town on the other side of Toluca Lake (wasn't Shepherd's Glen supposed to be on the other side of the lake?)

Not that I'm going to lose sleep over the geography of Silent Hill, if they need to double the size of the town to give us more space to roam around in I'm all for it. I wonder how much of it will be accessible from the start?

Than more freedom we have to walk around the city, than hardest the puzzle will be, and the storyline also vanish if there is nothing guiding the poor player. On the other hand, could be something new in SH series: an open wide map as GTA.

Other games like flying fight simulators got open wide freedom to fly, as long you have fuel. I can imagine some time limit to complete each situation in SH, so the map don't need to be so closed. SH got some frustrating limitations: places you cant go, things you cant take, u cannot access a door cuz there is a light chair... I know they work on it this time, let's see the result.

[redrum]

I reckon the story will guide you here and there, but you can choose to take detours lol

[Devoured]

Hm I hope we'll have more freedom than previous games, we'll most likely be unable to return to certain points but I do get the impression that we're gonna need to travel quite a bit to get through the game at times, or at least to complete certain side-quests...

[WwAndi]

from what i have noticed a city has to be pretty big to have a amusment park, also why doesnt that makeshift map have shepherds Glenn on it

[KiramidHead]

Here's my take on Shepherd's Glenn: If you look at the far left side of the SH2 map, there's a place where the lake narrows, and then widens. My theory is that the lake continues past the edge of the map, and that SG is located over there on the far side.

[RetroMutt]

Believe it or not, Silent Hill should can be larger than it is... at least in my opinion

There is a town near by called, Bisbee here in Arizona.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99 ... isbeeB.jpg
I call this ARizona's personal lil Silent Hill xP but back on subject, old Silent Hill and new Silent Hill from the first game is relitively the same size as Bisbee, if not smaller.
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2 ... te_Map.jpg

(However Bisbee is a bit bigger with the residental district) The thing is though, this Bisbee doesn't have two hospitals, a prison, Sanitarium, Lighthouse, a few hotels/motels, quite a few apartment complexs, a draw bridge (Which suggests boats come through quite often), quite a few restraunts, fast food joints, muti story buildings... AND an amusiment park. whether or not the devolopers intended to have a "Small town" the buildings and facilities suggests the town is much bigger than we thought.

Pretty much guessing, but if I'm right.. I don't believe there would be such a demand for most of those buildings in such a small town.. even with Silent Hill 2's area added. The only thing that would make sense is if the surrounding towns send all their sick, criminals, and insane people to Silent Hill... but it IS a tourist town, so no resort town would accept those things unless it was big enough to safely hide the places away within the dark streets and away from the tourist. So I personally think the town has room to expand in future games.

I don't think Silent Hill is a large town, but I don't think it's small either. I have a feeling the town is maybe my twon large, which is big enough for all of those things but remains a quite small town. Sierra vista, az.

Then again though, that's all my opinion. I haven't looked up some hard facts yet so take this in hopes I'm somewhat right.

[Devoured]

I don't think a town has to be that big to have an amusement park, I'd say SH has one because it's supposed to be a tourist hotspot, and Rosewater Park is hella boring for the young uns...this could also account for the somewhat large number of stores and restaurants and (poorly located) motels etc. The town doesn't really have much else going on, we've seen some logs but that's about it, so it's probably still a popular spot.

Just to be anal, it is generally believed that Brookhaven is used as a mental hospital [in the 90s/00s when "we're" there] as opposed to a regular one like Alchemilla (for clarity, it would've gone something like this : Brookhaven was definetly a regular hospital at first, but at some point either the town's growth called for Alchemilla to be built, or a mental illness fad called for Cedar Grove. Either way after the 70s there was no need for an institution the size of Cedar Grove, and Brookhaven became the town's mental institution - cause we all know every backwater town has at least one of those). With the big time gaps between the games they have plenty of room to change things, like the differences between the Northern part of town in 1/0rigins/Homecoming. Personally I'd love a proper old timey Silent Hill game that would have only a few landmarks in common with the town as we know it...

BTW O/T I have always wondered about this : do lakes in the US really have lighthouses?

[theSHHAS]

it would be awesome if you could take a train to the SH2 area and the SH1 are and all the other areas maybe.. or would it be too much? i would like to roam the SH2 area freely just to look around and relive memories of SH2...aah... memories...

[Joe_Mastic]

it would be awesome if you could take a train to the SH2 area and the SH1 are and all the other areas maybe.. or would it be too much? i would like to roam the SH2 area freely just to look around and relive memories of SH2...aah... memories...

There's no train at all. You can use the subway tunnels, but you're not taking the train. Walk.