I assume that after a disturbed post I should follow with a sane one; for my sake as much as yours, I assure you. 

So, SH3 was one fucking grandtrain of a game.  I was so impressed with the sheer amount of continuity that the creators were able to weave into the game that it was almost impossible to fault it for the slightly over-the-top theatrics and its somewhat preachy tone towards the end of the game.  I'm only going to say this once: PLAY THE FIRST GAME BEFORE YOU PLAY THIS ONE!  That means everybody.  I don't care how fuckin' cool you are, or how much "this plot analysis r0X0rs", you have to play the first game to really appreciate the amazing number of references and thematic elements that are brought up in both games.

This is gaming on the verge of cinema, I kid you not.

And I, for one, am so happy that this is the current trend in videogaming as of late that I could shit myself.  One moment...let's now write "shat", shall we?

What we have here is a game that manages to take some of the most obscure rabbinic texts regarding the Fall and make them accessible (and even digestable) to the modern reader, through one helluva job at research.  Not only that, but the cult (they hesitate to call it a religion in the game, as I will too) actually undergoes change between the world of Silent Hill's 1 and 3. 

Some may argue that this was done by RPG's years ago (most notably the epic FF7), but to SH3's enormous credit, they have a much smaller span of time in which they are allowed to create and maintain their world.  Very few people are able to slouch through a mammoth RPG like Xenogears--imagine if a gamer were asked to make an 80-hour committment to a Resident Evil game...doesn't bode well for the poor zombie-hunter, does it? 

However, in about 6 hours (first playthrough), I was introduced to an entire heirarchy of angels and demons, as well as an entire host of characters that I actually cared about!  Keep in mind that this isn't FF7, in which I have 20 hours of dutiful puppy love invested into dear Aeris before she's skewered by Senor Jackass--I've been with these guys in a dank hellhole for about 5 hours, and they're getting a genuine reaction out of me.  What more can you ask for? 

The game's heroine vomiting out a fetus representing "God". 

Yeah.  The game has everything.  Peace!