The amount of people who get bent out of shape over this one just for being different is absurd. Apparently a slightly different angle to a lock-on camera and manually aiming your gun is tantamount to being a DMC clone in this fandom's eyes.

It's a perfectly solid game in terms of design and writing - Double Helix was made up of people behind the excellent Xbox Buffy game and Revenge of the Sith's tie-in game, they know how to do good melee combat that still has bite. You can't just cakewalk your way through this. The enemies are as harrowing as ever. Resources are scarce, especially if you ignore side puzzles. The puzzles themselves are great, particularly the House setpiece towards the midpoint of the game.

As for the story, you want the quick and dirty version? You're not actually a soldier! You're an autistic adult with arrested development running around in his father's uniform. The spirit of your brother is vengeful and wants payback for what happened to him and his fellow kids sacrificed by the cult. Your bro appears as the Pyramid Head in this game. It's not the same PH from Silent Hill 2. The entire game is about choosing whether you'll follow him in being wrathful or be merciful. The game just had such a damn rushed dev cycle that it doesn't beat you over the head with this, and somehow a fandom that can try to read into every inch of Silent Hill 2 as somehow being symbolic can't be bothered to spend ten seconds thinking about what's meant to be read into with this one.

The real issue is that the PC/360 versions, which are the ones readily available, have the most bugs. If you at all have the option, track down a copy and play the PS3 port, which fixes a variety of known glitches, and emulates beautifully (emulation is sadly the main route for a lot of the series at this point). Or, barring that, at least the Xbox backwards compatible version will have a much higher resolution than Homecoming likes to run at on PC. There is a fan patch, but I've played without it and made do.

Just like most of the Silent Hill sequels after Team Silent, it's not that it's a bad game, it's that the fanbase has a mental breakdown over wanting a nostalgia high of Silent Hill 2 and nothing but Silent Hill 2. Nevermind that Team Silent always tried something unique and original with their own games. Nevermind that half the fandom won't even acknowledge Team Silent's last contribution to the series, Silent Hill 4: The Room. Ignore the haters, and try the game out when it goes on sale. It regularly sells for $5-7.50 depending on the platform when on sale. Think for yourself and stop listening to the zombie horde that just want James to come back to do the same song and dance again.

SIlent hill CrashComing XD

It has it's moments of being awful but it's incredibly fun