Konami Silent Hill 2 Remake Unreal Engine
Konami releases the first trailer for their upcoming Unreal Engine 5-powered Silent Hill 2 Remake, which will fully utilize use its Lumen and Nanite technologies. The team’s main goal is to retain the atmosphere that made the original so memorable, while also modernizing many aspects of the game’s overall gameplay, like adding an over-the-shoulder camera view.



This new over-the-shoulder cameraa view means that there is also going to be a revamped combat system as well as certain set-pieces, while Unreal Engine 5 brings the foggy, sinister town to life in ways that were impossible up to this point. Thanks to the PS5’s 3D audio capabilities, players are going to be able to determine the exact direction where the sound is coming from. There’s no word yet on availability, but it’s confirmed for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S | X and PC platforms.

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Konami Silent Hill 2 Remake Trailer Unreal Engine
Konami Silent Hill 2 Remake Trailer Unreal Engine
Konami Silent Hill 2 Remake Trailer Unreal Engine

Twenty-one years have passed since the release of Silent Hill 2 for PlayStation 2 and the big leap in technology allows us to be even closer – at least in some aspects – to how Team Silent would have desired their game to be back in 2001. Thanks to state-of-the-art motion capture sessions, we can deliver the best facial expressions in the series’ history and show a wide range of emotions even before a character speaks a single word,” said Motoi Okamoto, Producer, Konami Digital Entertainment.

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