Preview Silent Hill 2 PS5 Grows in the Right Ways for Anticipated Remake
Going hands on with Bloober Team's PS5 remake.
Bloober Team has asked fans of the PS2 classic Silent Hill 2 to give it a chance, as it looks to remake what's considered to be one of the greatest horror games ever made. The fanaticals' fears are based on the studio's previous titles (Layers of Fear, The Medium), where it's been accused of poorly handling sensitive themes the very game it's remaking revolve around. Those concerns are warranted, but having played three hours of the PS5 version's introductory sequence, the studio deserves the chance to make its case. Silent Hill 2 on PS5 is different to how it was 23 years ago, but that does not mean it's bad. It's quite the opposite in fact: Bloober Team and Konami have a new vision for the game, and the opening hours show a great deal of promise.
From the famous bathroom scene to the graveyard and then into Silent Hill itself, the PS5 remake commits to the broad strokes of how protagonist James Sunderland makes his way into town, but then deviates from set expectations in the right way: it adds and expands rather than taking anything away. In the original, James simply followed a very, very long path into Silent Hill, covered in fog. In the remake, the mammoth trek has been fleshed out with a sawmill and a garage; the latter acts as a tutorial for item and key usage.
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