"Complete The Old-School Experience": Bloober Reveals Perfect Silent Hill 2 Remake Settings For Ultimate Nostalgia

"Complete The Old-School Experience": Bloober Reveals Perfect Silent Hill 2 Remake Settings For Ultimate Nostalgia

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Silent Hill 2 Remake is shaping up to be a massive horror game and Bloober Team is demonstrating how well it knows its audience by unveiling some especially immersive settings. Many players coming to the remake will undoubtedly be familiar with the original release on the PlayStation 2, a system that may have been powerful for the time but still had several technical deficiencies that forced Team Silent to be creative. Much like the first game, Silent Hill 2 used those limitations to make the game spookier, so it's good that some are returning for the remake.

Early Silent Hill 2 concepts were inspired by real-life elements from the infamous Jack the Ripper case, enriching the plot and psychological horror.

Posting on X (formerly Twitter), Bloober Team revealed that it's been working on a way to "complete the old-school experience" with a "90s filter" that adds a film grain effect, color correction, and screen adjustments to better emulate the PlayStation 2 version.

The video that accompanied the post certainly looks the part as the setting draws players into the central action on the screen and obscures their surroundings just enough to make them threatening. It's a fantastic...

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