Bloober’s Silent Hill 2 remake is officially coming to PS5 and PC
Following months of speculation, Konami has officially confirmed a Silent Hill 2 remake.
The game was revealed during a Silent Hill Transmission live stream on Wednesday and is being developed by Bloober Team, the studio behind The Medium, Layers of Fear and Blair Witch.
The game will be released for PlayStation 5 as a timed console exclusive, as well as PC, Konami said, and original creators such as monster designer Masahiro Ito and composer Akira Yamaoka are said to be “closely” involved.
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Mateusz Lenart, the creative director behind Bloober’s The Medium and Blair Witch, will lead the Silent Hill 2 project.
“Silent Hill 2 is a cult classic and it’s widely recognised as one of the best games ever made,” he said. “We want Silent Hill 2 to make the same strong impression today that the original game did 21 years ago.
“While we want to achieve the same end result, players’ expectations evolve over time, and certain things need to be modernized to have the same or similar effect. For example, that’s why we went with the over- the-shoulder camera so we can immerse the players into the game world as much as possible.”
Bloober has regularly been linked to the Silent Hill franchise over the past couple of years.
Last June it announced a “strategic co-operation agreement” with Konami, months after Bloober’s CEO claimed it was working on an existing horror IP from “a very famous gaming publisher”.
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