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Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
SILENT HILL 2 is a psychological horror, horror and survival horror game
developed by Bloober Team SA
and published by KONAMI.
Released on October 07th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 43,049 reviews of which 41,028 were positive and 2,021 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 69.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 x64
- Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K | AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 Ti or AMD Radeon™ RX 5700 or Intel® Arc™ A750
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 50 GB available space
- Sound Card: Windows Compatible Audio Device.
- Additional Notes: Playing on minimum requirements should enable to play on Low/Medium quality settings in FullHD (1080p) in stable 30 FPS. SSD is recommended.
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Maximum Immersion Guide after 27 trips to Silent Hill Silent Hill 2 is in my Top 3 games of all time. I just finished my 27th playtrough including my runs in vanilla on PS2, Directors Cut on PC, the "not so HD" collection on PS3 and the Remake on PS5. I got 100% on all of those platforms, 75% on PC while writing this. The game is excellent on all levels so all I wanna do here is give you my top 5 tips for your ultimate "first-time" experience with the best horror game ever made. Follow these and you'll never forget this trip, promise. 1. Turn off the lights or even better, play alone in an abandoned hospital. Or just at home at night, thats fine as well. Turn up your headphones (Akira Yamaoka is perfection). 2. Watch and listen. SH2 was made and intended to play slowly. Explore the town when outside. Walk instead of running around, especially indoors. Check your map constantly. Take your time - read everything, question what you see, listen to the sounds of the city. Soak everything up. There is only one first playtrough, after that its gone, forever. 3. Start on both normal combat / riddle difficulty. Its the balance the devs have intended, imo its the perfect balance. Fighting is not the main focus of the game anyway and soon when you find the gun at the start of the game it gets ridiculously easy thanks to a little melee combo "trick" (a hint: knees). Also, you can easily dodge all attacks, even from bosses. The riddles are very well made and ingenious, so it would be a shame to waste this experience. Again, take your time, think a little, the riddles are not that hard, but fun! On hard, enemy damage doubles. Would not recommend for your first time. 4. For the best experience, turn off "Low health vignette" under Options/Gameplay. You can see how bad James is injured by how much blood is on his jacket, how he moves (when hurt badly) or by the "color" of your inventory. This is the way its meant to be played, the vignette just gives you a constant red corner which is super annoying. 5. Play with a controller. Its a way better and smoother experience! Short notice about performance, the game is demanding, especially in 4K but also 1440p. DLSS Quality with 100% resolution scale and frame generation works well for most people as I heard but the newer your GPU, the better. This concludes my thoughts about a game I spent WAY to much time playing it, but I regret nothing. You'll see why if you give this one a shot by yourself. Enjoy your stay!
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I own this game for PS5 and have accumulated 110+ hours on it along with Platinum trophies for both my file and husband's. I was extremely disappointed when I found out that on the PS Store, you CANNOT review games if you own physical copies of them!! So I bought this game for Steam to finally use some mods and leave a review! For starters. I've been a HUGE Silent Hill fan for the past 10 years. I've played all the original Team Silent games multiple times, along with Origins and Shattered Memories. Silent Hill means a lot to me. As for Bloober Team's remake, they have exceeded my expectations! I could tell as I was playing that this game was made by dedicated fans, FOR fans. Their attention to detail, addition of Easter Eggs and homages to the other Silent Hill games has been a real treat for a fan like me. I have replayed the remake 8 times and with each play-through I kept discovering new Easter Eggs and details I happened to overlook. Aside from the original games, I have truly, genuinely, fully immersed myself in this game. Walking through these familiar streets feels like revisiting a town you grew up in, and that's exactly what this is. There's new places to explore, new buildings you can enter and different routes to take. Bloober Team made this experience feel fresh, and it was like I was playing Silent Hill 2 for the first time again! This remake has hit the nostalgia factor for me tenfold. The lore, environment, sound design, characters, story, music is 10/10 for both the original and remake of Silent Hill 2. The game-play was never this series' strongest suit, but I will mention that the addition of a dodge mechanic was a great change, and the Spider Mannequin variants kept me on edge! I am pleased that Bloober Team did not diverge heavily from the core themes of the OG. I was worried they would tone down some parts, especially Angela's story line, since it touches on a very sensitive topic that people will be uncomfortable with. But the Abstract Daddy sequence SHOOK me to my core. I was not ready for something like that. It's as if I was experiencing Angela's trauma, but second-hand. What SOLD me on this game were the performances. Luke Roberts as James Sunderland completely KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK. He delivered one of the GREATEST video game performances of all time. He's right next to characters like Kratos, Arthur Morgan, Joel Miller, etc. I didn't think they could make an ending to rival In Water, but they DID with Stillness. As for the other characters, Angela, Eddie, Mary and Laura were perfect. They made Eddie more unsettling this time. In the OG, he came off goofy and silly. I could not take his character seriously. However with remake Eddie, you can tell right away there's something off about him, and as you progress he becomes increasingly psychopathic and unhinged. It's PERFECT. As for some negative things to say: MARIA. Maria has been a divisive topic with the remake. In some areas she delivers, and in others she falls short. This isn't to dog on the actress, though. She did a phenomenal job. This is more of an issue with the direction and writing. They wanted to take a subtle approach to Maria's character, especially when it came to her sex appeal and feistyness. The scenes that stand out are: "ANYWAY?!", the elevator chase, and Twin Pyramid battle. For the "ANYWAY!?" scene, she sounded too somber. Maria is SUPPOSED to be explosive in this moment, because she's angry, but it falls short unfortunately. I appreciate Bloober Team trying a different approach to the tone, but it does NOT work in those instances. I'm gonna end it here but I don't want to write a whole essay. These are my personal opinions and I'm sure others have expressed their admiration for this remake better than I have. Overall: I LOVED this remake and will wholeheartedly recommend it!! With the announcement of Bloober Team working on a remake for the first Silent Hill game, I am BEYOND excited! I can't see any other studio delivering again like they did. Godspeed!
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I can't believe how good this remake is. I almost cried when I saw the first sequences. Surprisingly, Bloober team left untouched the best aspects of the og and improved what had to be improved. The game looks fantastic and sounds horifying. The battles are super intense. I think SH2R is the best entry point to the series. We finally got a good Silent Hill game again. We are so home, brothers and sisters.
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As a big fan of the original games, this remake stays true to the original while introducing updated graphics and mechanics. Stunning visuals and top notch sound design. While the gameplay isn't anything mind-blowing, it feels refreshing enough to keep you going An absolute masterpiece that does justice to a horror classic.
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OG SH2 is one of my favorite games of all time and I must say Bloober knocked it out of the park with this remake. OGSH2 was stressful because of the atmosphere of dread and the idea that something terrible could happen at any moment, but the actual gameplay was on the easy side. This remake not only recaptures everything great about the OG in terms of its art direction, sound design, voice acting etc., but it actually makes SH2 scary again for those of us who already know what's going to happen. The combat is really good and tense and it keeps you on your toes even on standard difficulty. Last night I got out of the hospital and managed to get to the wrench and honestly that journey really took something out of me. I was left feeling exhausted and slightly traumatized in the best possible way. Congrats to Bloober for having recaptured lightning in a bottle in a way that is at once respectful of the past while also reinvigorating. I am so looking forward to SH3 remake.
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SILENT HILL 2 is currently priced at 69.99€ on Steam.
SILENT HILL 2 is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 69.99€ on Steam.
SILENT HILL 2 received 41,028 positive votes out of a total of 43,049 achieving an impressive rating of 9.35.
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SILENT HILL 2 was developed by Bloober Team SA and published by KONAMI.
SILENT HILL 2 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
SILENT HILL 2 is not playable on MacOS.
SILENT HILL 2 is not playable on Linux.
SILENT HILL 2 is a single-player game.
SILENT HILL 2 does not currently offer any DLC.
SILENT HILL 2 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
SILENT HILL 2 does not support Steam Remote Play.
SILENT HILL 2 is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Bloober Team SA
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KONAMI
Release
07 Oct 2024
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