Silent Hill 2 Reviews
The Silent Hill 2 remake is absolutely an incredible horror gaming experience that successfully expands on the beloved original.
Against the odds, Bloober Team has delivered a remake that both expands Silent Hill 2 in just the right places, and gives careful attention to what it preserves.
Silent Hill 2 is a great way to visit – or revisit – one of the most dread-inducing destinations in the history of survival horror.
Bloober Team’s version of Silent Hill 2 often feels like a high fidelity version of the original with remixed puzzles and item locations. The combat is reasonably satisfying, the boss encounters have been improved, but what is fundamentally a great horror game is partially undermined by the over-the-top sound design, injection of jump scares, and general lack of restraint.
Does a good job of making the series feel relevant in a way it hasn't for years.
Remaking one of the most revered horror games ever is no simple task, but Bloober Team impressively rebottles the magic of the 2001 genre landmark.
Bloober Team… You made me happy, and after playing Silent Hill 2, I am eager to see what the studio does alongside Konami in future. Perhaps a Silent Hill 1 and Silent Hill 3 remake isn’t such a bad idea, after all…
The remake will not have the same impact as the original, but it's still a worthwhile game for newcomers and old fans alike.
An excellent remake that does all it can to bring the classic original into the modern era, while maintaining the same nuanced levels of psychological horror.
The remake of Silent Hill 2 honors the great audiovisual work that Konami released in 2001, maintaining a high level and improving many of its most distinctive features. Silent Hill 2 was an essential title more than 20 years ago, and it remains so today with this magnificent remake.
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Bloober needed to maintain and adapt everything that made the 2001 game great: its atmosphere, characters, story... They have done all that and added their own ingredients to present us with a complete, emotional and exciting experience.
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Silent Hill 2 Remake is an excellent game that shines in every aspect and pays homage in the best possible way to the cornerstone game of psychological horror.
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Silent Hill 2 is a skilfully handled retelling of one of the medium's most loved survival horror games. It stays faithful to the original (to a fault at times) but breathes enough new life into it to simultaneously ensure that long-time fans will appreciate the respect shown, while newcomers won't find it antiquated.
Bloober Team delivers a pretty good remake with some elements that are not fully convincing. Fans of the original game will appreciate the faithfulness to the source material and the fact that this blends well with the few but important changes in terms of gameplay. Unfortunately, a lot of fog has passed on the streets of Silent Hill 2, and now there's a new sheriff in town called Alan Wake 2, who has brought lots of fresh things to the horror genre, becoming the new benchmark.
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Silent Hill 2 is the best game Bloober Team has made. A faithful reimagining of the original, bringing it to the modern day without losing what made the original the best horror game ever, using modern game mechanics to improve where they could, and expanding on what was already an engrossing world. Without any shadow of a doubt, a resounding success, one that will likely come as a surprise to many.
Bloober Team has faithfully and respectfully recreated one of the survival horror genre's all-time greats, modernising Silent Hill 2 in all the right ways.
Thanks to an impressive respect for the game's original vision while also finding areas for improvement to modernize a masterpiece that's more than 20 years old, we can say that the Silent Hill 2 remake not only meets expectations, but far exceeds them and makes the name Bloober Team take on a new meaning after all the doubts that surrounded it. It's also very important to highlight Konami's work in choosing the right team to play such an important title so loved by the community. Needless to say, we're facing one of the great experiences of 2024 that, regardless of whether or not you played the original at the time, you have to give it a chance. Somehow, the Poles have managed to make both old veterans of the mythical saga and horror genre, as well as those who are completely new, more than satisfied.
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Silent Hill 2 Remake is a sensational comeback for the franchise and Bloober Team''s best game to date. Far from being just an opportunistic game, it is both a love letter to the saga and a successful retelling of the original one. Faithful and very different, this new game modernizes psychological horror without ever abandoning its old-school roots. Silent Hill 2 Remake is deeply scary and stressful. Besides being very good remake it is simply an excellent survival horror that honors the license and gives us great hope for the future.
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A strong remake that conveys the bizarre atmosphere of the original, introduces coherent innovations and only has small weaknesses.
Review in German | Read full review
Ultimately, the remake of Silent Hill 2 has been able to dispel any doubts we held in our hearts, delivering us a product that respects the original and is able to preserve its powerful message.
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