No. Even comparing the original releases for both games, Silent Hill manages to do a lot of differentiating. While both series occupy the lanes of survival horror, they each do it in radically different ways, proving there's room for both at the table. Resident Evil always relies on a biohazard, while Silent Hill relies much more on a person's guilt and the occult. The former has you fighting enemies that were once human or alive, and the latter has you fighting flat-out monsters that could never exist in the real world. The Silent Hill series has a much more fanciful design using the bloody and rusty textured "other world" to its advantage, while Resident Evil firmly lets you know you're exploring the real world. The fact that Silent Hill was also fully 3D from its inception is another sharp difference. The way the camera bends differently or the use of lighting effects and darkness can't match the surprisingly bright worlds of the original Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3.