Silent Hill (Japanese: Hepburn: Sairento Hiru?

) is a horror media franchise cr

Keiichiro Toyama and published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Enter
tainment. The first four survival horror video games in the series, Silent Hill,
2, 3, and 4: The Room, were developed by an internal group called Team Silent,
a development staff within former Konami subsidiary Konami Computer Entertainmen
t Tokyo. The later five games, Origins, Homecoming, Shattered Memories, Downpour
and Book of Memories, were developed by other unrelated groups. The Silent Hill
franchise has expanded to include various print pieces, two feature films, and
spin-off video games.
Silent Hill is set in the series' eponymous fictitious American town. The series
is heavily influenced by the literary genre of psychological horror, with its p
layer characters being mostly "everymen". By contrast, other horror-themed games
use a stronger protagonist through character back story or direct game mechanic
s (more weapons, heavier emphasis on combat), as is the case in Resident Evil, w
hich is widely regarded as Silent Hill's primary "rival".[1]