Game Information

Game Title: Silent Hill 2

Platforms:

  • PlayStation 5 (Oct 8, 2024)
  • PC (Oct 8, 2024)

Trailers:

Developer: Bloober Team

Publisher: Konami

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 88 average - 91% recommended - 34 reviews

Critic Reviews

Arabhardware - Ahmed Yousry - Arabic - 9 / 10


Areajugones - Urko Miguel Galparsoro - Spanish - 9 / 10


Atomix - Alberto Desfassiaux - Spanish - 95 / 100


CGMagazine - 9 / 10


Checkpoint Gaming - Luke Mitchell - 9 / 10


Eurogamer - Vikki Blake - 5 / 5


Everyeye.it - Riccardo Cantù - Italian - 8.2 / 10


GAMES.CH - Benjamin Braun - German - 90%


GRYOnline.pl - Sebastian Kasparek - Polish - 6 / 10


Game Rant - Dalton Cooper - 9 / 10


GamePro - Samara Summer - German - 87 / 100


GameSpot - Mark Delaney - 9 / 10


Gameblog - French - 9 / 10


Gamepressure - Zbigniew Woźnicki - 6.5 / 10


GamesRadar+ - Leon Hurley - 3.5 / 5


GamingTrend - Henry Viola - 90 / 100


Hardcore Gamer - Chris Shive - 4 / 5


Hobby Consolas - Daniel Quesada - Spanish - 89 / 100


IGN - Tristan Ogilvie - 8 / 10


IGN Italy - Alessandra Borgonovo - Italian - 9.5 / 10


Metro GameCentral - GameCentral - 9 / 10


One More Game - Chris Garcia - 9 / 10


PPE.pl - Roger Żochowski - Polish - 9 / 10


PSX Brasil - Eric Oliveira - Portuguese - 100 / 100


Press Start - James Mitchell - 9 / 10


Push Square - Liam Croft - 9 / 10


Sirus Gaming - Jarren Navarrete - 10 / 10


Spaziogames - Domenico Musicò - Italian - 9.4 / 10


The Games Machine - Daniele Cucchiarelli - Italian - 8.3 / 10


TheGamer - James Kennedy - 3.5 / 5


Tom’s Hardware Italia - Andrea Maiellano - Italian - 9 / 10


VG247 - Kelsey Raynor - 5 / 5


VGC - Chris Scullion - 4 / 5


Wccftech - Chris Wray - 9 / 10


  • Noxy
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    32 months ago

    Its good. Not perfect, but better than I expected.

    Headphones definitely recommended, a halfway decent Atmos home theater system sounds great but I still picked up subtle sounds better with even just bluetooth headphones.

    Ambience is very much on point. Dialogue is a good mix of well-acted, and a tad “off” like the original. Angela and Eddie seem faithfully redone, so far. James too honestly.

    Apartments were a nice change-up from the original, not too different thematically but still essentially a whole new layout, not at all a copy and paste job. Showdown with big knife guy was a big departure, though. Not sure if better or worse, but different from the original

    Some graphical glitches (something like ghosting of the fog around objects moving on the screen, also flashes of light in the distance) sometimes that are frankly unacceptable for a $70 game, especially a game of this sort of mood, but hopefully they get those patched soon.

    Combat is not exactly great. Nor was it in the original, to be fair. The dodging mechanic is a bit much, and at least on the hardest combat difficulty, it feels like you gotta already be familiar with enemy attack patterns, since it doesn’t give you much chance to learn and survive. But it does all feel learnable, so we’ll see if I just need to get gooder.

    Steam achievement notifications at least one broke immersion for me, I might try to mute those next time I play.

    But overall I’m very eager to resume playing after work, I left off after the apartments (and stayed up far too late doing so!)

    • Chloyster [she/her]OPM
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      32 months ago

      I’m super happy with it so far, though I am not quite as far. I got up to Woodside apartments last night before going to bed.

      Totally agree on the ambiance. They absolutely match the original and Akira Yamaoka did an amazing job in this department yet again. Also agree on the dialogue, really happy with it so far. I was worried due to how much I disliked the hd collections redone vocals but they did a good job here.

      So far haven’t had much in the department of graphical glitches, though I did notice my frame rate tanked when I got to the apartments at the end of my session so I made need to tweak some settings.

      Combat hasn’t bothered me but also I’m playing on standard and haven’t gotten the pistol yet so my thoughts are developing. Melee is quite satisfying in this game though imo

      Agree on the steam achievements haha.

      While I’m still early it does seem like they’ve grabbed the vibes straight from the original and dropped them into a modern coat of paint. And at the end of the day sh2 thrives on its vibes, so I’m very happy. Excited to keep playing