Contextual Studies: The Hills are silent

Firstly can you undertsand the cheeky pun? If not you'll find out :)
As part of our contextual studies we are to research the infulences of games between the Eastern and the western countries, aka Japan and american. Our main target to chose is Silent Hill (Now understand the pun!) The first silent Hill game was released in 1999 on the PS1 by Konami which of course is an japanese games company (and a bloody one if I have to say). The game is a 3rd person survial horror. Since its release there has been a film released in 2006 and a novel as well in 2001. Another famous Surival Horror game was Resident Evil developed by Capcom, another Japanese gaming company. This game was released 3 years before Silent Hill and follows  the same path as Silent Hill with the 3rd person shooter style.