Heather is a typical adolescent girl, and the player controls her in Silent Hill 3. One beautiful day, she decides to go shopping, but before she knows it, she’s been abducted and taken to a bizarre and terrible location: the creepy village of Silent Hill. She is forced to defend herself after hearing footsteps, which are ultimately the sound of revolting and scary monsters advancing on her. Heather must find a way to leave the terrifying town of Silent Hill before she can continue her investigation of both Silent Hill and her past.
Visually and mechanically, the third entry in the Silent Hill series is comparable to the game play of the previous entry. It is a survival horror game, much like the entries that came before it, and it combines action-based (mostly close-ranged) fighting with the solution of puzzles. This chapter in the series focuses on battles a little more than the ones that came before it. Heather can side-step and parry some assaults. Still, in general, she and the other protagonists of the series share the same relative incompetence in combat as the series’ antagonists.
