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@ Playstation: Silent Hill (Konami)

Shaun Conlin Contributing Writer

THIS is one creepy title!

Coming from Konami might expect a mere follow up to their phenomenal Metal Gear Solid but this ude switches gears completely by switching genres. Silent Hillis a third-person horrors adven- ture Sle in the same vein as Resident Evil — and it’s bet- tert

You phy as a fellow named Harry Morgan, a snall-rown writer making a trip to the resort town of Silent Hill with his daughter. The journe becomes a nightmare alter a

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warerash deaves von dazed: and youre promptly killed by a

swarnn orchid sized zontbies. At leastoit scents that vou are

Killed. You wake up ina cottce

shop and things get warse trom: there. Evervthing ts 4

Your daughter ts missing and there seems to be very litde you can de about it but off vou ge just the same. Fo say Silent Hillis a ghost town is an understatement.

The setting is comprised of

chilling gloom and fog out-

world

camera otters the divvving, swoop and pan of a grade + horror film without interter ing with character contrel ~~ well, not too much, anyway, And vou're given very dittl information so rhe most sim- ple of tasks, the most basic of problems become high-ansi- ety puzzles.

The pace is slow but steady and the occastonal bratally- intense sequence will jolt vou outof vour socks. A perpetual sense of dread permeates the entire game wt Fillis a brilliant picee of work with

stemming dings as well hculty settings that will challenge vou to just stay alive, let alone a accomplish something. lent rental. Great purchas .

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NEWS Reporter layne@nsnews.com

THROUGH the ages, the art of portraiture has evolved to serve a variety of functions: historical record; a remembrance of loved ones; a token of friend- ship and, above all, a means of attaining immortality.

Faee.to Face, opening, this Saturday at the Vancouver Art Gallery, traces 400 vears of portraiture, from

Renaissance masterworks to contemporary photography. The exhibition of 287 works continues to Sept. 26. Included in this major tion are portraits by an impressive roster of master painters: Titian, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Gova and Gainsborough. The fine-art photographs of Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe and Yousuf Karsh are represented in addition to the sculpture of Picasso and Matisse. Included in the show are several contemporary por- traits from the VAG’'s own collection, including works

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by North Shore painters Arnold Shives, Unity Bainbridge and Sylvia Tait.

For even more Canadian content, check out the Canadian Portrait Academy's second annual exhibition. It runs ro June 29 ar Hycroft, the University Women’s Club at 1489 McRae Ave. in Shaughnessy,

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