Silent Hill 2 Remake Breaks Street Date, PS5 Discs Loose in the Wild

Spoilers!

by Khayl Adam 5am

A PS2 game released in 2001, if you've played the original Silent Hill 2, chances are you're no spring chicken. That said, there are many, many new prospective fans in the world, and it is to those impressionable innocents we direct this warning: Bloober Team's imminent remake appears to have broken street date, with physical copies popping up, along with gameplay and story spoilers, in the wild.

A PSA we first saw raised by Eurogamer, over on Reddit, images of Konami's glorious discs have begun to emerge a full week early, allegedly purchased ahead of the game's official release on 8th October on PS5. Considered one of the very best horror games ever made, Silent Hill 2 is the first game (but certainly not the last) this scribe can remember being too scared to play, and we'd hate for some of its spookier moments to be spoiled.

Are you looking forward to Silent Hill 2's official release date? Will you dive in for the first time, or are you an old sinner? Let us know in the comments section below.

[source reddit.com, via eurogamer.net]

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

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Realist
5:03am

I wanted to make a joke about being Silent but I dont feel like it.

At this point I'm more surprised when games aren't leaked early.

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SoulChimera
5:15am

@Realist Yeah, it’s not a hill worth dying on.

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Realist
5:24am

@SoulChimera I had 2 lined up but my brain got a little foggy.

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Yousef-
5:35am

Maybe this is meant to add an element of realism to the horror. Now you’ll be horrified of spoilers. Genius marketing.

I wish, instead of games leaking early, the reviews leaked early. I don’t want spoilers on the content of a game, just a summary of its strengths and weaknesses.

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LuXifer
5:39am

I never got to play this one originally so I hope it turns out great. As long as it's not 70$ and trusted sources gives it a thumbs up then I'll get it for sure.

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Deadlyblack
5:51am

I like the disc image, it reminds me of PS2 discs

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Tasuki
5:57am

Someone's going to get fired.

I enjoyed the silent Hill games when they first came out but I'm not going to bother again I don't think. This remake looks good but dosnt really look amazing to me.

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1UP-HUSKY
6:43am

Well that's a Blooper.

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Nepp67
47m ago

When are the reviews supposed to release?

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CieloAzure
43m ago

Well if you pre-ordered it. Best of luck trying not to get spoiled. Can definitely ruin a $70 purchase.

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Medic_alert
34m ago

I'm probably going to put my big boy pants on and brave this at some point.

I have never played the original version of it nor the HD re-release so it's a bit of a gap in my gaming history.

It would be nice if the first one could drop on PS plus, even if it probably plays terribly now.

I'm struggling to understand why people even care for this? Its Konami and Blooper, it will be a miracle if its good.

@Medic_alert The HD collection is bad like really really bad.

***** Konami lost the original source code for SH 2 & 3. So they gave the unfinished code to Hijinx Studio and pretty much asked that small studio to complete the game again which was nuts.

In the end, the HD collection released with many technical issues that shouldn't exist if Konami had the original source code. And iirc the poor Hijinx Studio closed their door because the HD collection sold badly.

If you want to play SH 2 & 3 then i suggest buy PS2, Xbox, or PC version. I'm sure you can get PS2 or Xbox copies pretty cheap at retro game store. But stay away from HD collection.