<Tr> <Th> Genre (s) </Th> <Td> Survival horror </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Mode (s) </Th> <Td> Single - player </Td> </Tr> <P> Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PlayStation published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo . The first installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in North America in January 1999, and in Japan and Europe later that year . Silent Hill uses a third - person view, with real - time rendering of 3D environments . To mitigate limitations of the console hardware, developers liberally used fog and darkness to muddle the graphics . Unlike earlier survival horror games that focused on protagonists with combat training, the player character of Silent Hill is an "everyman". </P> <P> The game follows Harry Mason as he searches for his missing adopted daughter in the eponymous fictional American town of Silent Hill; stumbling upon a cult conducting a ritual to revive a deity it worships, he discovers her true origin . Five game endings are possible, depending on actions taken by the player, including one joke ending . </P>

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