IGN’s Matt Casamassina has more gameplay details on the potentially-awesome Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for Wii.

Shattered Memories is undeniably a hardcore game overrun with storyline, but you won’t find traditional text overlays and cues in the world. Harry talks to himself as he explores the world, offering some guidance, but mostly the town itself presents all the information you could need. Crisp textures nurture environments and objects that feature more than enough definition for examination purposes. Signs and papers can be read easily. Harry’s cell phone does the rest. It’s very seamless. And the seamlessness is continued via a streaming engine that renders load times one-hundred percent obsolete. Wherever Harry goes, inside or out, is just there.

Silent Hill’s 3D engine is one of the best on Wii. You will, of course, see the return of filtered graphics, a stable of the franchise, but the character designs and animation, the make-up of the environments and the effects that bring everything together are all nothing short of amazing. The single most impressive thing about the game is the flashlight, which frankly kicks the one in Namco’s action-RPG Fragile to the curb. It’s perfectly mapped to the Wii remote so that Harry can quickly point and illuminate anything on-screen and it simply looks incredible. It casts shadows on just about everything — even on snow flakes. And all the while, the framerate never hiccups.