Silent Hill 2 Remake Review - Born From A Wish - GameSpot

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.

[cthulhucultist]

I liked all of Blooper games thus far being a horror fun and specifically those in psychological horror/walking simulation type of horror and I expected them to deliver a solid game.

Hopefully judging by the reviews, they seem to have nailed it, especially the atmosphere which is key for these type of games.

Cant wait to finish my huge backlog of horror games to experience it!

[Venoxn4g]

Bloober :)

[cthulhucultist]

haha yes, you are right. I always mistype this as I confuse this with the nintendo character :-)

[Bathyj]

I was not expecting this

[pwnmaster3000]

A lot of people weren’t. I’m glad it was good.

I seen a lot of people that were crapping on this game, hoping it will bomb because they made the female. “ugly”.

[-Foxtrot]

Same

Least now I know it’s worth the purchase, lucky since it’s already on its way, I must have forgotten I preordered it.

Bloober are usually pretty terrible so it’s a nice surprise, however with the foundation already there and it just being just a remake maybe this is what they are best at while they gain experience from it to do their own original games again in the future.

[Obscure_Observer]

"I must have forgotten I preordered it."

WTF? You were crapping on Bloober from the start and now the reviews for their game are overly positive, you´re desperately and shamelessly trying to pull a 180.

It´s quite awesome that despite all the hate, Bloober turn out to be the RIGHT choice for Silent Hill 2 and they´ll most definitely continue to be Konami´s first choice for a possible new remake or sequel.

[-Foxtrot]

Woah. Slow down.Hold your horses and stop getting your panties in a bunch

Let me explain

When it gets NEARER to launch, so this would have been when the trailers were improving compared to a year ago and I see a Steelbook as a preorder bonus, I preorder it just incase a miracle happens so I don’t miss out on the steelbook

If it’s terrible, I cancel or refuse delivery to send it back

If they pull it off, I keep it and I haven’t lost out on the preorder bonus that would then skyrocket in value on eBay.

It’s called being tactical, that’s it. Is that a crime?

I don’t know what kind of “win” you were trying to get from that but it’s kind of pathetic considering the amount of shit you’ve pulled especially with your multiple accounts…but yeah sure, go crazy.

[Neonridr]

@Foxtrot - please tell me you don't waste the postal system's time by refusing delivery.. for the love of god, cancelling something is a simple click of a button.

[-Foxtrot]

@Neonrider

I usually do cancel but GAME.co.uk are terrible and even if you cancel it 5 days before hand, even when they haven’t sent it off they tell you that they can’t stop the order from their warehouse. When you complain and say “but it hasn’t left yet, I’ve given you plenty of time” they get all arsey and end up saying “to cancel now, please refuse delivery at the door and it will be automatically sent back to us”.

Their entire online system is a joke, you currently can’t even see or cancel preorders at the minute after they updated their site.

[Neonridr]

@Foxtrot - that's fair, I'm on the other side of the pond, so I can't relate. Plus I usually order games from Amazon and their process is super easy to cancel.

[-Foxtrot]

@Neon

Sadly Amazon over here don’t get any of the goodies GAME do and their customer service in comparison is a lot better

Companies keep giving GAME stuff as exclusives which is why you got to preorder because the way they operate and do things are just super bad.

Now I can keep the preorder and get the steelbook without paying insane prices on eBay.

I usually have an Excel document (sad I know) that tracks what I’ve ordered but this one must have fell through the cracks

[blackblades]

You were probably the main one on the smearing campaign

[-Foxtrot]

@blackblade

Please. Please just shut the f*** up. All you do is pick fights with users on here.

I know you have an issue with me but keep your bitching to the DMs

There’s nothing wrong with being skeptical, it looked like shit when they first showed it off along with a developer who hasn’t got a lot of good titles behind them. Then it looked a little better, and better and they pulled it off.

What’s wrong with changing opinions based on new information

You’d be bitching if I was still calling it worse than shit regardless of the turn around

Same goes for every one disagreeing. You can’t win.

[cthulhucultist]

@Foxrot: I dont think that they are pretty terrible as you say. Their game ratings also do not suggest this. Many find their games lacking because they venture too much into walking simulation territory but they are far from terrible and I believe that you ere exaggerating.

The main issue here is that such a high profile horror game was given to a Team that does not have the best track record in horror gaming and that is why many people where concerned.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I was expecting this to be absolute garbage, all the info and reveals prior suggested that it would be. I might actually reconsider and buy this in the future, I'm pretty sure I deleted it from my wishlist.

[BABI-PANGPANG]

Just built myself my very first gaming PC—4080 card and everything, big ass OLED screen—and I'm so ready to put this beauty to the test! Never played the original either, so I'm so excited to be blown away by it all.

[CrimsonWing69]

Sunday, baby!

[Prayingathiest]

I love when we go from not much to play to too much. Silent hill, metaphor and diablo 4 dlc all in 3 days I can not wait

[MDTunkown]

Also Dragon Ball !

[Neonridr]

it always seems to come in waves, and then there's too much to play at any given time :P

[SimpleDad]

I'm surprised and shocked actually. They listened to fans??? Huh...

[on_line_forever]

In my opinion the original still looks great and better

the remake is too bright and less foggy so it gave up the originals unsettling atmosphere also soundtrack in the original is better in some places for example : in the original many soundtrack plays in many places and make the atmosphere more creepy in remake nothing plays only silent you don't feel anything

[generic-user-name]

Review specifically mention how dark interiors are and how thick the fog is.

[on_line_forever]

You can see video comparisons in YouTube between original and remake and focus in the points that I mentioned you will see what I talk about by yourself

Check ElAnalistaDeBits channel

[jBlakeeper]

Definitely not regretting my preorder.

[DustMan]

I had a feeling Bloober would nail this one. Always thought if they had a great IP they could do something special. I've enjoyed all their previous work for the most part. This may be my most anticipated game of the year, and seeing high reviews scores make me happy lol.

[jznrpg]

I had little hope for Bloober doing a good job as their past games had minimal combat and what was there for combat was jank. Their games were average but not really good so of course I had concerns. The last trailer quelled any worries I had though.
Apparently experience with a good guideline and a bigger budget did wonders for them. Hopefully this puts them in a good position to make quality games in the future. I don’t mind eating crow as I want good games and I preordered Silent Hill 2 after I saw the last trailer. Hopefully they continue on this trajectory

[Ninver]

Definitely picking up at some point.

[MrWood]

Can’t wait to play this is VR with the UEVR mod!

[got_dam]

I am glad to see this remake is good. I missed out on this game back in the day.

[repsahj]

I was one of the few who believed that it would be good in the final build. Good thing I didn't lose hope. Hehe. XD

[Philaroni]

Man do I love reading N4G comments at times. You all fill me with giggles.

Though for real, I think we all where worried about how the game would turn out, giving how long its been. That is perfectly fine. What I don't get is how when it turns out good we can't all just say, "Hell yes!" no, we don't do that, we attack each other and its a 'I told you so' back and forth.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I was sold when this was first announced while many others bemoaned it. I bet they're eating crow right now, lol.