Silent Hill 2 Reviews
As far as remakes go, Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 is the absolute best case scenario. It's faithful where it counts, yet introduces plenty of new tricks and ideas that justify itself. The expanded content, replay value, and additional endings make it the ultimate way to reexperience a classic story. The visuals are stunning, and perhaps even a bit too ambitious, as the Xbox Series X|S version had to make a few minor compromises to hit its performance goals. The classic Silent Hill 2 is one of the best survival horror games of its time, and this remake carries on its legacy and serves as a worthy alternative for anyone who can't play the original.
Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 Remake is an interesting game. It successfully freshens up the presentation of the original story while tastefully expanding the gameplay through a modern gaming frame. Their handling of boss fights, monster behaviours and puzzles makes this title a fun time through and through, despite the depressing nature of the atmosphere and story. The new takes on characters offer increased depth through new facial capture and the voice actors successfully revise some of the more complex, awkward dialogue exchanges in a manner befitting of the original title. Akira Yamoaka slays with a fantastic remix of the soundtrack and Ito does some masterful redesigning of the horrific creatures. If there was a way to remake Silent Hill 2 this was it.
Aside from some bland combat and performance concerns, Silent Hill 2 is a good remake that takes the original's intriguing narrative and crams it with more survival-horror gameplay while upgrading the visuals to do justice to the fascinating setting.
Nearly perfect remake and a love-letter to a cult classic.
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A practically perfect remake in every sense, Silent Hill 2 is a game that will stay with you long after the credits roll, and shouldn't be missed by any horror fan.
In the end, fears were left behind, so were doubts, the remake of Silent Hill 2 is a very good game. A proposal that adequately honors the original delivery and that takes the baton to keep this story more relevant than ever. The tragic fate of James, Mary, Maria, Laura, Angela and Eddie are considered eternal classics of Survival Horror and the remake reminds the older generations of the reason, while introducing new players to one of the best video games in history. We can't deny that Bloober surprised us; the result has been very good and I'm happy to say that Silent Hill is back and again we will be back in that place that fed our worst nightmares.
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Silent Hill 2 Remake is simply a Masterpiece. Bloober Team has successfully modernized the experience of the original game, while keeping every important aspect of the original game intact.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Remaking a popular cult classic is never easy, but remaking one of the most innovative survival horror games-one that introduced new ways of scaring players with modern standards-while staying true to its original spirit is even harder. The reveal trailer for the Silent Hill 2 Remake didn't receive much love from fans, but Bloober Team has done a marvelous job of creating a fantastic modern remake of an all-time classic. While it may not be as shocking or revolutionary as the original, it's still a must-play for anyone who loves video games.
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In this remake of the legendary survival horror game, Bloober Team have shown how to make a remake. Deserves a standing ovation.
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Boiled down, there’s almost none of Bloober Team that is actually in this game, and yet Bloober Team’s poured everything they had into it. That is nothing short of total reverence to a masterpiece.
Silent Hill 2 Remake is a work that can be a first-class experience for both long-time fans of the series and those who are new to it. Bloober Team, with exemplary fidelity to one of the best in the horror genre and expanding it appropriately, has created an experience that is both scary, has a great story, and is successful in gameplay. Silent Hill 2 Remake is a good remake, a terrifying and praiseworthy video game that is recommended to all horror genre enthusiasts
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Overall, I think Silent Hill 2 feels more like a side-upgrade than a full upgrade to the original. It's incredibly faithful and respectful while it modernizes large chunks of the game, but some of those modernizations go a tad too far for my taste. Silent Hill 2 is largely successful at what it is trying to do, which is to present a version of the game that is more polished and modern. It doesn't eclipse the original version, but for anyone who didn't grow up playing PS2 games, this is the easiest version of the game to play.
A scary good remake of a classic horror is chilling. A town immersed in the fog has terrifying surprises for you, which will haunt you. The game looks modern and at the same time retains the essence of the original.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Silent Hill 2 seemingly old, but nevertheless new. Bloober has delivered!
Review in Polish | Read full review
Bloober Team makes its best project to date by recreating, updating and expanding Silent Hill 2 in a majestic way without affecting its essence or art.
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The Silent Hill 2 remake is one of the best horror games I've played to recent date. I couldn't find a single thing I disliked about it. With the use of the PlayStation 5 hardware to deliver a more immersive experience, I found playing this Silent Hill 2 remake to do justice to the original and then some.
If you play one game this Halloween, it should definitely be SILENT HILL 2 which remains in a class of its own even all these years later. 📻
Silent Hill 2 is the remake fans needed and the remake they deserved.
The SILENT HILL 2 remake is finally on Xbox, and it is the best version of the amazing title yet.
Bloober Team did an excellent job recreating the disturbing and claustrophobic atmosphere that made the original game a masterpiece, but also introduced modifications and expansions that enrich the experience, like in the Angela boss fight. Some aspects, like the handling of cutscenes and the faithful reproduction of certain elements, could have been improved, but the use of ambient sounds and Akira Yamaoka’s iconic compositions manage to compensate for many of its imperfections. The remake, although far from replicating the emotional intensity of the original, still offers a successful interpretation of its essence, keeping alive universal themes like pain, guilt, and redemption. It’s true that many have been harsh about comparing it to the predecessor, but it must be recognized that Bloober Team’s game has the courage to explore new directions while staying true to the original core. In the end, Silent Hill 2 Remake is an experience worth paying attention to, both for those who loved the original and those approaching the saga for the first time.