In PT (PS4), you wake up on the concrete floor of a room. The only door leads to an L-shaped corridor where the sound of a newsreader on a crackly radio describes the gruesome murder of a family. You walk to the end, push through a door and find yourself at the start of the same corridor, this time in silence apart from an urgent knocking on one of the locked doors. The sense of mystery and trepidation as your predicament unfolds, along with the genuinely horrifying shocks it has in store, are chilling in a way that games seldom manage. Solving its oblique puzzles reveals that it’s actually a trailer (playable teaser, PT, geddit?) for the new Silent Hill game, a collaboration between Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro and video game auteur and Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. Based on the evidence of PT, it’ll be absolutely terrifying.
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PT - the creepy Silent Hills teaser from Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima