One of the most prominent Silent Hill 2 PC modding projects is due to receive a huge new content update on February 24, featuring long-awaited improvements such as full-fledged mouse support, 60 FPS gameplay, and more. A highlight of the franchise in many ways, SH2 has long been propped up by modders on PC, and though an official Konami remake is now in the works, unofficial projects are still the way to go at this time.
More broadly, Silent Hill is a franchise that had been effectively hibernating for a good long while. Though the developer and publisher, Konami, did announce an impressively comprehensive plan to bring it back in the coming months and years, this is a relatively fresh development. In the years past, it was up to the community to keep old SH favorites alive, and that's precisely what the Enhanced Edition team had been doing.
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The dev team working on Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition for PC has announced that fans of the game can expect a big new update to launch on February 24. One of the greatest PS2 horror games of all time will then offer full mouse control support, a proper 60 FPS render mode, and substantially improved translation pack support. The developers have also confirmed that gamepad users should find it easier to play the game on a variety of modern controllers, thus updating it far beyond anything Konami has officially provided on PC so far.
Naturally, the Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition project runs on the same old game engine as the original did, making certain features extremely difficult to pull off. For example, the developers have explained via Twitter that the team is going to stick with the 60 FPS cap instead of
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