Back in October 2022, Konami’s Silent Hill Transmission event bought the long-dormant game and movie franchise back to life with the announcement of a number of new ventures, including the mysterious SILENT HILL: Ascension – and today brings a brand new trailer for the project.
Genvid Entertainment, Behavior Interactive and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Games have collaborated with Konami to deliver an ‘interactive streaming series that features multiple main characters around the world as they confront horrors unleashed in their communities.‘ Here’s some more info from the recent press release:
SILENT HILL: Ascension follows multiple main characters from locations around the world tormented by new and terrifying SILENT HILL monsters. Lurking in the shadows, these monsters threaten to consume people, their children, and entire towns as they’re drawn into the darkness by both recent murders and long suppressed guilt and fears.
Murder, monsters and suppressed guilt are all pivotal parts of Silent Hill as a franchise, and, while the series has ventured outside of the eponymous foggy town before, Ascension sees the horror going global and uniting players in a way like never before:
In SILENT HILL: Ascension the actions of millions will determine the outcome. By the time the last scene streams, which characters have survived? Will those who are left be redeemed, damned, or suffer? Even the project’s creators do not know how SILENT HILL: Ascension will end. Instead, the character’s fates are in the audience’s hands.
SILENT HILL: Ascension also teases the following features:
- An extensive ensemble of intricately developed, new characters, monsters and locations in the SILENT HILL universe
- A fresh, unnerving narrative using Genvid’s real time interactive system that enables millions of people to help characters survive and change those characters’ fates
- High-fidelity visuals streaming across devices
- Beginning later in 2023, SILENT HILL: Ascension features daily can’t-miss live story moments where each day is different than the last based on audience actions
Plot beats are still under wraps, but we’re told the story is an ‘exploration of intergenerational trauma’, which is a topic that always delivers the goods when it comes to horror.
More details on SILENT HILL: Ascension will be revealed in the coming months, and we’ll bring them to you as we get them! Now, here’s that trailer – and just what exactly is that thing in the woods?
