PlayStation instructed earlier this yr that the Silent Hill 2 remake could be out someday in 2024, however apart from repeated assurances that the sport is within the remaining levels of growth, neither Konami nor developer Bloober Staff have mentioned something in any respect a few launch date. Current developments have, nonetheless, indicated that that would change within the not-too-distant future.
As an illustration, Silent Hill 2 has now been rated by the ESRB. The rankings board has, unsurprisingly, handed the survival horror title a Mature 17+ score, owing to “blood and gore, language, sexual themes, violence”.
The official description for the sport reads as follows: “This can be a horror journey recreation by which gamers assume the position of a person returning to a mysterious city whereas being laid low with his previous. From a third-person perspective, gamers discover the city of Silent Hill, work together with characters, and battle people and creatures (e.g., Pyramid Head, mannequins, monsters). Gamers use pistols, shotguns, rifles, and knives to kill enemies. Fight is highlighted by reasonable gunfire, cries of ache, and blood-splatter results. Some environments depict massive bloodstains and/or intestines/organs on partitions, flooring, and surrounding our bodies. Cutscenes and illustrations depict additional situations of violence and/or blood and gore: characters impaled; a personality suffocated to loss of life with a pillow; enemies with physique components sewn collectively. The sport incorporates some suggestive/sexual materials: characters pole-dancing in strip-club settings; posters of ladies in revealing outfits (e.g., bra and thong, deep cleavage); dialogue alluding to sexuality and/or sexual abuse/misconduct (e.g., ‘Keep in mind that time within the resort? You mentioned you took every part. However you forgot that videotape we made’; ‘Don’t contact me…You’re solely after one factor…Or you could possibly simply pressure me, like he at all times did.’). The phrase ‘sh*t’ seems within the recreation.”
After all, past the outline, the truth that the sport has obtained an age score is notable in and of itself, given the truth that rankings for titles are typically authorised within the later levels of the event course of, as soon as all of the content material inside is consultant of the ultimate product that can be bought to customers.
Lately, the sport was additionally rated in South Korea. Whether or not this implies a launch date for Silent Hill 2 will lastly be introduced quickly stays to be seen.
At any time when it launches, Silent Hill 2 can be obtainable on PS5 and PC.
