A North American rating by the ESRB for Silent Hill 2 has been spotted online. As highlighted by Wario64 on X, the game recently received a mature rating. This could mean that an announcement for the upcoming horror game’s release date is imminent. The rating also gives a description of things that will be featured in the game. This includes “cutscenes and illustrations (depicting) instances of violence and/or blood and gore, characters impaled, a character suffocated to death with a pillow, enemies with body parts sewn together.” In a recent interview with Famitsu, Silent Hill series Producer Motoi Okamoto revealed that the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake is “in the final stages of development”, and that “you can think of it as the Silent Hill 2 you envisioned”. The game will launch for PS5.
The full ESRB description:
The remake details via Steam:
Having received a letter from his deceased wife, James heads to where they shared so many memories, in the hope of seeing her one more time: Silent Hill. There, by the lake, he finds a woman eerily similar to her…
“My name…is Maria,” the woman smiles. Her face, her voice… She’s just like her.
Experience a master-class in psychological survival horror—lauded as the best in the series—on the latest hardware with chilling visuals and visceral sounds.
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A Nintendo Switch trailer was also released.
According to SteamDB.
An announcement trailer was also released.