Silent Hill 2 : Enhanced Edition
forwards of theSilent Hill 2remakelaunch next month , a long - running community project that was one of the best room to play the original is coming to a close . The team behindSilent Hill 2 : Enhanced Editionannounced over the weekend that they ’re relinquish its 10th and final update .
The project ’s closing has been in the works for around two year , according to a mail service on X ( formerly Twitter ) , and the squad is “ satisfied ” with the work they ’ve done .
Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition
“ near everything we set up out to achieve , we accomplished , ” project manager John Kubiak said in anannouncement videoposted Wednesday commemorating the update . “ And that take me a great sense of joy and closure as we wind things down . ”
The squad is set to take a break before taking on other project , but in the interim , they ’ll be applying hotfixes and other updates to the biz . They wo n’t be taking on any task that call for new features , Kubiak say .
A lot of the changes in the immense final update are visual in nature , with restored torch reflections , “ true ” 60 - frame - per - second FMVs in cutscenes , and improved water visuals . you may watch the long list of changes in thishour - long picture , which really read the coarse-grained study the team put in to ensure theEnhanced Editionlooks as good as it does . Some full - screen images have been completely re - created in 3D , while specific texture glitch have been fixed . The team even created novel assets to lucubrate upon the human race , like throw scene that exist beyond wall .
One of my preferred plus call for one puzzler where you have to insert a light light bulb into a lamp inside a legal profession . The team added a power cord to the lamp since , you know , lamp be given on electricity .
For a retentive time , the good way to playSilent Hill 2on PC was through the Enhanced Edition project . This rooter - made mod added huge melioration to the PC copy of the plot ( which you did need to own before installing theEnhanced Edition ) , update it for modern computer hardware with affair higher - definition answer support and a gross ton of visual and gameplay fix . It even depend near — crisp , with deeper colors — in many means than official console copy , likeyou’d get on the PlayStation 2 . It even has a consecrate speedrun mode that adds an in - game timer and add updates while maintaining the most common strategies .
Silent Hill 2’sremake , developed by Bloober Team , will release on October 8 for PlayStation 5 and microcomputer .
