Silent Hill 2 Remake Wiki Page Locked After Review Fight

Silent Hill 2 Remake Wiki Page Locked After Review Fight

From DualShockers (Written by Jaime Tugayev) on | OpenCritic

The Silent Hill 2 remake is one of the most anticipated releases of the year, but controversy over its rating has left containment in gaming boards.

Wikipedia curators had to lock the Silent Hill 2 Remake page following a streak of vandalism over the critical reception of the game, which is in early access and will be released on October 8th.

Konami has had a tough decade or so. The exit of Hideo Kojima following the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain put one of the company's prized franchises in turmoil, and its executives made sure to bury the rest by effectively killing the Pro Evolution Soccer brand.

In that context, Silent Hill 2 is a breath of fresh air that could mark the beginning of a new era for Konami, with the initial press reviews scoring 87 out of 100 on Metacritic.

If you were to check the Wikipedia page for the game a little while ago though, you'd see a much different picture, with a string of ones and zeroes, punctuated by a charitable 6/10 review from IGN.

Disgruntled gamers made an organized guerrilla attack on the page against exhausted Wiki editors, resulting in...

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