{"id":11446,"date":"2011-04-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dev-says-comparisons-between-silent-hill-downpour-and-alan-wake-are-a-bit-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11446-dev-says-comparisons-between-silent-hill-downpour-and-alan-wake-are-a-bit-odd","title":{"rendered":"Dev says comparisons between Silent Hill: Downpour and Alan Wake are \u201ca bit odd\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silent Hill: Downpour producer Devin Shastky has dismissed comparisons between his game and Alan Wake, telling <a href=\"http:\/\/helldescent.com\/2011\/04\/18\/devin-shatsky-on-downpours-alan-wake-comparison\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hell Descent<\/a> that &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s a bit odd for anyone who hasn&rsquo;t even seen the game to be drawing comparisons to any other games.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>His comments come in after a recent release of new screenshots prompted speculation about the game&rsquo;s remarkable resemblance to Remedy&rsquo;s Stephen King-&lsquo;em-up. But just because it looks the same in the pictures, basically, doesn&rsquo;t mean anything.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They can only judge from the screenshots they&rsquo;ve seen, so I don&rsquo;t blame them. If they think we are looking &lsquo;Alan Wake-ish&rsquo; just because we have a forest area in part of the game, then so be it. But it could easily be said that Alan Wake ripped off SH in a number of ways with the look and feel of their entire game. Granted, all games evolve from each other in some capacity, so I think its narrow minded to think like that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Besides, Downpour features loads of other stuff besides gloomy forests.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are a multitude of other environments in Downpour that people will be hard-pressed to compare to ANY other games, we have a very unique variety of landscapes and interiors, and I think the fans will be very pleased with the job Vatra is doing on our environments,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;The forest is just a drop in the bucket (pun intended) of where we take the player in this game.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The game is scheduled to launch sometime towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, Alan Wake totally \u201cripped off\u201d Silent Hill, anyway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}