Heather Mason, the player character, picks up the Handgun the floor of a clothing shop in the Central Square mall is a 92FS Centurion semi-automatic pistol. It has a ten round magazine capacity, wood grips, and the ability to mount a sound suppressor looted from a corpse entombed in a concrete pillar. Douglas Cartland, a private investigator hired to find Heather, uses a similar weapon, but never fires it onscreen in the game. The handgun is the only firearm in the game that the player must obtain.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingBeretta 92FS Centurion - 9x19mmError creating thumbnail: File missing"Holds 10 rounds of ammunition. Small and not powerful, but easy to use."Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe first, clearest shot of the handgun in this game.Error creating thumbnail: File missingHeather discovers the handgun on the floor of a women's clothing store. Normally, the best thing to do when encountering such an out-of-place and potentially dangerous item would be to back away and notify the authorities, but . . .Error creating thumbnail: File missing. . . she then displays a shocking lack of common sense by picking up the gun, potentially ruining vital evidence for a criminal investigation, and possibly putting her own life in danger due to her inexperience with firearms, until . . .Error creating thumbnail: File missing. . . she is forced to use it against the thing that did in the handgun's former owner.Error creating thumbnail: File missingHeather runs dry at the worst possible moment.Error creating thumbnail: File missing"Some parts of this game may be considered violent or cruel."Error creating thumbnail: File missingDouglas Cartland has his own Centurion, but never fires it onscreen.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAs the game progresses, Heather starts to gain more confidence with the Beretta Centurion and uses a proper grip in cutscenes, but her sights are still misaligned. Furthermore, she never gains the ability to reliably aim at an enemy more than 10 feet away with her firearms.
Colt SAA
Used only by a few monstrous Nurses in Brookhaven Hospital, this revolver is used rather inexpertly (but nonetheless lethally) by those monsters, and cannot be obtained by the player. The Nurses can only fire it slowly at Heather, but never need to reload. Contrary to its name, the Bulletproof vest item will not actually stop rounds fired from this weapon at Heather. If Heather closes to melee range with a revolver-wielding Nurse, the Nurse will try to pistol-whip Heather instead.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingColt Single Action ArmyError creating thumbnail: File missingA monstrous Nurse about to shoot Heather with its revolver. Yes, it can hit her dead on without the Nurse even looking at Heather, and from a far greater distance than Heather can accurately retaliate with her own firearms. Then again, Silent Hill's monsters never did play fair.Error creating thumbnail: File missingA better view of the revolver used by the monstrous Nurses.
Remington Model 870
The Shotgun is in an opened gift-wrapped box in the subway level. Heather can commandeer this grisly "gift" and blast monsters away with its buckshot. It has a sawn-off barrel (the front sight is entirely missing), a tube magazine capacity of six rounds, and, for some reason, is completely reloaded by inserting a single shell into the magazine.
The first fully-automatic weapon ever implemented in a Silent Hill game. The Submachine Gun can be found in the basement of Brookhaven Hospital near a bloodied wheelchair, the barrel still warm from its recent use. It has a 32 round magazine capacity and can use the sound suppressor as well, which would imply that it shares a caliber with the handgun since suppressors are manufactured for specific calibers to be effective. An unlockable version with unlimited ammunition is available as a bonus item.
"Holds 32 rounds of ammunition. Great for its continuous firing."
Though not terribly effective for most enemy encounters anyway, the decision to include a fully-automatic weapon was still criticized by some game reviewers as placing too much emphasis on firepower within a survival horror game, and to date this game remains the only Team SilentSilent Hill title to give the player control of a fully-automatic weapon; however, Silent Hill 4: The Room has an unlockable MAC-11 submachine gun as a weapon for a friendly NPC.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe location where the MAC-10 is discovered. Judging from this nightmarish scene, it's obvious that the Submachine Gun wasn't of much use to its previous owner.Error creating thumbnail: File missing"Some parts of this game may be considered violent or cruel."Some parts?!
Flamethrower
Essentially a submachine gun that projects a stream of flame. It has unlimited ammunition.
