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The game was different in some aspects.
The main character was a guy searching for his little girl.
The cop didn't pull him over... instead she passed him and he later passed her downed motorcycle.
He then avoided hitting the girl.
Woke up and his daughter was gone and went searching for her.
Met up with the cop and the cop gave him a gun.
The cop became possessed.
There were alternate endings. I think five? Two good, two bad, and one with a UFO [don't know why].
In the good endings the guy searching for his daughter had to kill a demon, then Alessa gave him a newborn child to care for and he escaped.
In the bad endings he killed Alessa and weeped over his lost child [and in the worst ending he is shown possibly dead].
I'm sure you can guess the other haha.
Otherwise... the rest was the same.
Pyramid head wasn't even in the first Silent Hill. He was in the second. PH actually served a purpose in the second one, but in the movie he served none whatsoever!
It's my belief, and the belief of many others, that Silent Hill is many people's messed up forms of "paradise". It is not a nightmare at all. Alessa was tortured her whole life [as were the members of the other three games]. They each only knew pain and so they made pain, horror, and punishment their reality.
Yeah, that's what I got out of it. I'm a nerd
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