Silent Hill 2 has been rated in South Korea

Indicating that a release date announcement may be close
Silent Hill 2 has been rated in South Korea
Silent Hill 2 has been rated in South Korea /

South Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) has rated Silent Hill 2 as being inappropriate for youth, indicating that a release date announcement of the title could be around the corner.

According to the description on the GRAC website, Silent Hill 2 is a “horror adventure game about a man who meets a woman resembling his dead wife in a town he remembers.” That definitely sounds like the plot we know from the original, which involves a man named James Sunderland returning to a town called Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his dead wife.

The game contains “excessive violence” and “excessive gore” from attacks and being attacked. “Depictions of dismemberment, including creatures being torn apart,” are featured as well.

A white man with straw-blonde hair is looking upwards with a look of pain on his face.
The Silent Hill 2 Remake has been rated in South Korea :: Bloober Team / Konami

As you’d expect, Silent Hill 2 contains “excessive expressions of disgust and horror.” There are creatures with “bizarrely configured limbs,” “eerie backgrounds,” and “bizarre sounds.”

The rating application for Silent Hill 2 was filed on February 29, 2024, and has been granted on March 7, 2024.

Fans of the horror game series have been waiting for news around the remake developed by Bloober Team, which was initially announced in 2022, for a while now. The original Silent Hill 2 was released in September 2001, becoming especially popular in North America. Since the original game is considered to be one of the best horror games ever made, the remake has massive shoes to fill.

Aside from Bloober Team, which is new to the series, some veterans of the original development team are reprising their production roles, such as Masahiro Ito and Akira Yamaoka.

Silent Hill 2 was already featured in a trailer Sony made to highlight upcoming PS5 games for 2024 earlier this year. In addition to PS5, the game is expected to come to PC.

In the meantime, the Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition is the best way to play the title.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg