Silent hill

Introduction
First introduced in Konami's 1999 Silent Hill, the mysterious fictional rural town of Silent Hill has physically appeared and been traversed in 5 of the 6 mainline game titles released, as well as being the inspiration for the film and comics' setting.

Portrayed as what could be considered an archetypal New England tourist town, Silent Hill is shown throughout the course of the series to be anything but ordinary. Its chief industries are tourism and, to a lesser extent, agriculture. It is a small town with a population below 30,000, and its key industry – tourism – is in a state of steady decline.

Some of the town's conservative residents oppose modernization and the transformation of the town into a tourist attraction, and although Silent Hill appears at a glance to be an innocuous rural town, this has brought about an unexpected darkness of drug distribution. A religious cult of a considerable scale known as The Order exists behind the scenes. To read more about it, Click here.