Early Silent Hill 2 Remake Mods Remove Hair Sheen, the Fog, and Even Turn the Game Into Sunny Hills

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It’s early days in the life of the well-received Silent Hill 2 Remake, but already PC players have dug into its backend to create mods that change the game in eye-catching ways.

The most popular Silent Hill 2 remake mods on Nexus Mods include those you’d expect, such as fixes for performance and visual issues, but there are a few that stand out for doing perhaps unexpected things with Bloober’s survival horror game.

For example, one popular mod, Hair Sheen Removal - No More Oil, makes hair “less distracting” by reducing sheen. Talk about conditioning users to play the game a certain way.

Here’s a fun one: FrancisLouis’ Silent Hill 2 HD Collection mod. This joke mod makes the Silent Hill 2 Remake “more faithful” to the much-maligned Silent Hill HD collection of the original release by “eradicating” most of the fog from the game.

Sticking with FrancisLouis, they’ve also released the Sunny Hills mod, which turns the oppressively foggy Silent Hill into a twisted vision that wouldn't look out of place in the music video for Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun.

Elsewhere, JessicaNatalia has an early version of a first-person mod, if you fancy yet another camera perspective (find out what the director of the original Silent hill 2 thinks of the remake’s modern camera shift here).

Modder NorskPL has replaced the remake’s James Sunderland with the James Sunderland from the 2001 original.

And taking that thought further, MAK Moderator's PS2 Demake mod reimagines Silent Hill 2 Remake for PCs with PS2 hardware.

Oh, and if you really want the Silent Hill 2 Ranch sign in Comic Sans form (this is a whole thing), there is of course a mod for that.

And finally, there are the Silent Hill 2 Remake mods you very much would expect, including one that lets you play as Leon from Resident Evil 4 Remake (crossing the video game horror streams in the process), and the inevitable playable CJ from GTA. Here we go again!

We've got plenty more on Silent Hill 2 Remake, including a full walkthrough and of course