About a week until Downpour’s release here in the States and there hasn’t been much of any promotion for the game (well there are a few flash ad banners up at IGN now).
It’s rather disappointing, in fact many fans believe Konami failure to do any sort of promotion will lead to Downpour being a commercial flop. Which is a real shame 🙁
With that said I’m pretty jealous of the hype building in Mexico for Downpour’s release! Right now Mexican game retailer Game Planet is hosting a big Silent Hill shindig in celebration of Downpour’s release! They are giving away 20 passes to a screening of the 2006 Silent Hill movie at Coyote Autocinema (with free popcorn and drinks!) with a chance to win a Playstation Vita and Book of Memories for the best Silent Hill costume!
All you need to do is pre-order Downpour, like Game Planet of Facebook, follow them on twitter and answer three easy trivia questions… though the third one is not a real SILENT HILL trivia question!
The third trivia question asks what real life town was inspiration for Silent Hill. The movie version of Silent Hill was based off Centralia, Pennsylvaia which I believe is the answer they are looking for…HOWEVER if we are referring to the games Silent Hill was not based on a real town. Well if you want to get technical the look of the town in Silent Hill 2 and 3 was modeled off of real streets and shops from Bruno, CA and there’s a real Lake Toluca in Southern California…so I guess that counts? But I doubt Game Planet is looking for that answer!
Anyway! If you live in Mexico and want to get in on this awesome promotion you got to get a move on! Deadline for entries is March 9th! Also if any of you guys go I would love to hear how it went!
Welcome to Silent Hill. Silent Hill Downpour
Do you have what it takes to survive a night in the most infamous town in the world?
Preorder Silent Hill Downpour and find out what you are made of!
Gameplanet and Konami have 20 passes for a showing of the Silent Hill movie in the Coyote Autocinema this Tuesday March 13th! Take part of it!
HOW IT WORKS:
Like our FB/Twitter
-Preorder Silent Hill Downpour for Xbox360 or PS3 on any Gameplanet store or our online shop and keep your preorder ticket. The orders placed at the beginning of the preorder period also count.
-Send an email to preventas@gamep lanet.com with your full name, preorder code, screenshots that prove you’ve liked our Twitter and FB page and the answers to the following Trivia!
TRIVIA:
-Name of the SH: Downpour OST composer. (Whitney – A: Daniel Licht)
-Name of the most famous lake in Silent Hill (Whitney – A: Lake Toluca)
-Name of the real town Silent Hill was based on. (Whitney- ugh…I think they are looking for A: Centralia, PA)
The first 20 to send the email with all the requirements and the correct answers will receive an email with the instructions on how to claim your pass.
-Each pass includes entry for one car and two combo orders of popcorn and pop.
-Deadline is March 9th at 2 pm.
Be one of Silent Hill’s scariest things and win a PSvita with Silent Hill Book of Memories! Just dress up as any character of the Silent Hill series to take part in the contest!
Source (Gameplanet) Thanks Erick Lopez for the heads up/translation and Yowulf for the additional translation!
