
After what feels like an eternity of leaks, Konami has formally revived its long-dormant Silent Hill collection with a flurry of activity, starting off with remake of horror masterpiece Silent Hill 2, which is staying made by Bloober Group for Personal computer and PS5 as a timed console exclusive.

Bloober Team – the studio driving the likes of The Medium, Levels of Panic, and Observer – has been rumoured to be associated in a Silent Hill revival as considerably again as June very last 12 months, when it announced a partnership with Konami to build a new activity. Rumours that the project would be a Silent Hill 2 remake began to coalesce following a collection of leaks earlier this 12 months.

Now, while, Konami and Bloober Group have created points official, revealing the remake for the duration of a occupied Silent-Hill-targeted livestream in a two-and-a-50 % minute trailer. Below, we have been shown some legendary Silent Hill 2 times provided a new-gen visual overhaul – extending to a a little bit dubious makeover for protagonist James Sunderland, who now appears to be like a minor like Alan Wake’s unpopular brother.

Subsequent affirmation that the Silent Hill remake will release at the same time on PS5 and Laptop, with all other consoles missing out thanks to a 12-month console exclusivity interval for Sony, Konami then ushered in a few vital members of the new advancement team to examine the venture in much more element. Joining Bloober are concept artist Masahiro Ito – who served as artwork director on the primary Silent Hill 2 – and Akira Yamaoka who returns to work on the remake’s soundtrack, which he stated will feature a “new musical model” this time close to.

Many members of Bloober also put in an physical appearance during a small video clip sequence, describing the studio is approaching the remake with a “good deal of respect” for the original Silent Hill 2. This will include things like “keeping [the] exclusive Silent Hill atmosphere intact”, with the objective staying to create a activity that will “make the exact powerful impression these days as it did 21 decades in the past”.

However, it also specific some of the modifications it is generating in buy to meet what it called players’ evolving anticipations, such as an above-the-shoulder camera. In the end it states it would like to “recreate everything what designed the recreation a timeless basic, but to give it a new type which will attract gamers even deeper into the foggy streets of Silent Hill.”

You can find no release day for the Silent Hill 2 remake just still, but it will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Pc via Steam at some unfamiliar foreseeable future time.