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PS2 | Adventure | Silent Hill 2

Boxart for Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 51 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 5.0
  • SOUND: 4.5
  • CONTROL: 3.0
  • FUN FACTOR 4.5
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.6
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.4
Winner of the GamePro Editor's Choice Award

Second Look: Silent Hill 2

Second Look by JAKETHESNAKE | 12/22/2000 | 11:10:39 AM PST

With its eerie setting and gory action, the original Silent Hill was haunting on the PlayStation. Its sequel looks like it could be hair-raisingly disturbing on the PlayStation 2.

Spook Central
The original Silent Hill freaked out gamers with its moody settings and gory action as hero Harry Mason combed the dark fog-filled and monster-filled town in search of his daughter. This fall, Silent Hill 2 will take gamers back to the spooky hamlet, using the power of the PS2 to make the frights scarier and more lifelike. You'll play as an average guy named James in a completely different story from the PlayStation, complete with new characters. One day James gets a letter from his wife telling him to meet her in Silent Hill, a town that has special importance for the couple?the catch is his wife's been dead for three years.

Fog City
Though gamers will recognize the town, you'll now be able to go to new areas you couldn't access in the first game. The town will still be dark and foggy, but for dramatic effect, not because of hardware limitations, as in the original. Some important elements from the first game will remain, such as the steel pipe, the pistol, and the radio. Besides these, you'll also get a variety of new weapons to fight ten new types of enemies.

Scary Graphics
The biggest difference, however, promises to be the graphics. The game will be a mix of CG animation and rendered scenery and characters, including real-time rendered facial expressions. In fact, Konami says the real-time gameplay will look even better than the CG animations of the first game. And judging from a demo, the CG animations will be as creepy and graphic as anything you saw in movies like Se7en or Jacob's Ladder. If you're looking for a good fright, you may want to plan a trip to Silent Hill this fall.


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