Resident Evil and Silent Hill are often compared with similar metrics nowadays even though they are actually fairly different franchises. The line between what is considered survival horror as opposed to psychological horror is decidedly muddied, and yet it’s what helped distinguish Resident Evil from Silent Hill when they were both fledgling franchises employing tank controls and fixed camera angles on the earliest PlayStation systems. These franchises have also evolved a lot since those initial installments, with Resident Evil stretching its genre legs a fair bit more than Silent Hill.