Konami Digital Entertainment issued a press release today, announcing that Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for the Nintendo Wii releases on December 8 of this year. Shattered Memories is a remake of the Playstation's original Silent Hill (1999), but shakes up the first game's formula in significant ways.

The original game's decidedly awkward combat elements have effectively been stripped from Shattered Memories. This time around, players are only equipped with a cell phone and flashlight to help them navigate the darkness and solve puzzles. Thankfully, both exploration and fleeing from demonic forces should be better experiences than before, due to an increased line of sight. One of the more interesting sounding improvements is a "psych-profiling feature," which reportedly analyzes players and "adjusts itself to their actions."

The PS2 and PSP release dates for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will be announced in the "near future." You can take a look our impressions of the game here.

Konami's released a new batch of Shattered Memories screenshots. The motif they're going for here seems to be "family portraits, interrupted."

The interesting Wii/PS2/PSP "re-imagining" of the original Silent Hill hits this fall. Check out more of our coverage on the game.

Konami has released the first trailer for Silent: Hill Shattered Memories, a reimagining of the 1999 series-starting survival horror by Silent Hill: Origins developer Climax.

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While waiting for Shattered Memories to be released on Wii, PlayStation 2 and PSP this fall, you might want to check out our preview of the game from earlier in the year.

With combat removed from Climax's reimagining of classic survival horror Silent Hill, poor old protagonist Harry Mason is forced to flee from these furious fleshy foes, who'll apparently do their best to drag him out of hiding and pull him down. Mortifying.

The new PSP version screenshots are of interest too, as they show several different locations and more of the reimagining's snowy setting.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories comes to the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PSP this fall.

Even though the original Silent Hill has always been a favorite of mine, I never once expected a reimagining of the game would emerge as the most promising title on tap at Konami.

Since the release of Team Silent's textured PlayStation 2 sequel, the Silent Hill series has slowly lost steam over the years. The most recent entry, Silent Hill Homecoming, was turned over to American developer Double Helix a few years back. The result was a competent but ultimately soulless retread of previous themes, and it appeared as if the once-fresh horror series was lost in its own fog.

So it was with some trepidation that I sat down to watch a presentation of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories during Konami's recent 2009 preview event. After all, what could be more of a retread than a self-described "reimagining"?

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Konami has announced Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, a reimagining of the original 1999 Silent Hill survival horror title. A Wii release had been revealed by magazine scans, now Konami confirm PlayStation 2 and PSP versions too.

Shattered Memories shares the same plot as Silent Hill but shakes elements up to keep seasoned players on their toes. Harry Mason (pictured here in concept art form) will still search the desolate fogbound town of Silent Hill for his missing daughter only to find unspeakable terrors, but its human inhabitants will appear in new places reacting differently, and new clues and gameplay paths are to be found.

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The first title in Konami's horror series Silent Hill is coming to the Wii as a "reimagining," according to a Nintendo Power article that appears to not be an April Fools' joke.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will feature the same basic plot of the original game, but will be tweaked to "betray your expectations."

"The characters play different roles, things don't necessarily happen in the same order, and the story is taken in lots of new directions," reads the article, as transcribed by GoNintendo.

Shattered Memories will apparently feature less backtracking than was required in the original, while every locked door will now be unlockable.

"We're using the Wii Remote to interact directly with the environment, so the puzzles are all based around that idea," said producer Tomm Hulett. "You're not just hitting buttons to choose things."