Konami and Bloober Crew have insisted again and again within the lead-up to their upcoming remake of Silent Hill 2 that the sport goes to be fairly devoted to the 2001 unique, even when it closely modernizing the expertise from a visible and technical degree. With the horror remake set to launch not lengthy from now, they’ve launched one other new chunk of footage that illustrates that but once more.
Sitting down with PlayStation, Bloober Crew has proven off a selected part of Silent Hill 2‘s upcoming remake whereas evaluating it on to the 2001 unique, providing a transparent take a look at how issues have modified, been tweaked, and in the end nonetheless stored largely the identical.
The brand new footage first showcases James and Laura’s encounter in Brookhaven Hospital, the place we see that the dialogue has largely been stored intact (together with Laura’s well-known “fartface” line”), although in fact, with the usage of efficiency seize and a few slight dialog adjustments right here and there within the remake, the scene does tackle a special look, even whether it is aesthetically and tonally fairly devoted.
Additionally in contrast are each video games’ model of the boss struggle in opposition to Flesh Lips that instantly follows the Laura scene. Right here, we see that issues have been modified a bit of bit extra. For starters, the remake sees James taking over a single Flesh Lip as an alternative of two within the unique.
In the meantime, although the Flesh Lip bears the identical design and nonetheless assaults James by crashing down from the ceiling, mechanically, the boss struggle is kind of totally different now, with gamers being required to shoot the Flesh Lip down onto the bottom to then assault its cage within the first section of the struggle. The second section additionally sees the Flesh Lip utilizing the mangled stays of its cage as a weapon to assault James with. Try the video beneath for extra particulars.
Silent Hill 2 launches on October 8 for PS5 and PC. Critiques for the title will reportedly start going reside on October 4.
