Mumbler

Location: You'll come across them frequently during your journey through Silent Hill.

Attack Method: Patrolling usually in threes, they attack as a group and can make escape tricky.

Weakness: They're slow to move and easy to avoid.

Best Tactics: Run through them as quickly as possible, and when you've got your back to the wall, turn back and shoot them with the shotgun.

Air Screamer

Location: Outdoors throughout normal Silent Hill.

Attack Method: They're mobile, fast and difficult to shake off.

Weakness: Their speed means it's hard for them to change direction quickly.

Best Tactics: Listen out for the telltale sound of their wings and cries. When one tries to attack, quickly change direction, side-step or stop completely. The Screamer will miss you.

Groaner

Location: Outdoors throughout normal Silent Hill.

Attack Method: These enemies are fast and nimble and attack in packs.

Weakness: Their attack is really predictable. Avoid them by moving sideward when they lunge.

Best Tactics: Try and keep your distance and you should be able to out-run them. If you must attack, stop them with the handgun.

Stalker

Location: Alternate School.

Attack Method: Impervious to any damage.

Weakness: None.

Best Tactics: As they don't attack you, don't try to attack back. Think twice before hitting X if your radio goes off when you enter a room. The Stalkers are very good at making you waste unnecessary ammo.

Night Flutter

Location: Outdoors throughout the Alternate Silent Hill.

Attack Method: Similar to the Air Screamers, but they're faster and more powerful.

Weakness: Like the Screamers, they have difficulty changing direction in mid-flight.

Best Tactics: Switch off your flashlight and you should lose them.

Wormhead

Location: Outdoors throughout the Alternate Silent Hill.

Attack Method: Same as the Groaners, but they're faster and stronger.

Weakness: Also the same as the Groaners.

Best Tactics: Use the shotgun to despatch of them if you can't run away.

Puppet Nurse

Location: Alternate Hospital.

Attack Method: There are two different strengths of nurses - blue and green - so pay attention to who you're fighting, as some are harder to defeat than others. They usually attack in groups of two or three too, and have a tendency to rush at you if you're not prepared.

Weakness: They're slow and kind of predictable.

Best Tactics: Use the shotgun from as close as range as you dare. Once floored, finish them with a carefully-placed kick or the handgun.

Puppet Doctor

Location: Alternate Hospital.

Attack Method: They're much faster and can inflict more damage than their female counterpart.

Weakness: There are only a few of them throughout the hospital, and they're usually alone.

Best Tactics: Shoot at them from a distance with the handgun. As they get closer - or you manage to floor one of them - finish it off with the shotgun at close range.

Cockroach

Location: Alternate School, Hospital and the Sewers.

Attack Method: They're quick and attack in groups.

Weakness: They don't inflict much damage and are easily evaded.

Best Tactics: Listen out for their screeching. If you have to fight, use the handgun and move around as you shoot to avoid attack.

Romper

Location: Outdoors in Alternate Silent Hill.

Attack Method: They're fast, deadly and very difficult to kill.

Weakness: None that we can think of.

Best Tactics: Run. They tend to work with the Flutters and Screamers and it's easy to get surrounded by them. If you must attack, use your Rifle, and if you get caught, hit X quickly in succession to escape.

Blood Sucker

Location: Alternate Hospital Room 204 2F / Nowhere in Cabinet.

Attack Method: Should they get their suckers on you, it's instant death.

Weakness: None known of.

Best Tactics: Use the bloodpack to distract the Hospital one. Use the ring of contract on the cabinet for the nowhere one.

Hanged Scratcher

Location: The Sewers.

Attack Method: They have a tendency to ambush you and often attack in groups.

Weakness: They're quite noisy creatures, so you should know if one is about. They're not particularly fast either.

Best Tactics: Don't bother using the Handgun - it barely scratches them. Stop them dead with your shotgun or - if you have enough ammo - the Rifle.

Claw Finger

Location: You'll find these in the sewers of Silent Hill.

Attack Method: Like the zombie children, they wil grab you and cut deep with their claws.

Weakness: They're slow to move and very easy to avoid.

Best Tactics: Run through them as quickly as possible, and when you've got your back to the wall, turn back and shoot them with the shotgun.

Larval Stalker

Location: Nowhere Basement.

Attack Method: Being ghost-like they are had to see in the dark basement of Nowhere.

Weakness: They're not particularly fast moving and easy to avoid once detected.

Best Tactics: Run past them as fast as you possibly can and turn back to shoot them with the shotgun.