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Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is the best way to play the game on PC

The Bloober Team-assisted remake of Silent Hill 2 comes out next week – and according to reviews, including ours, the team is mostly right! – but that’s four days and a weekend away. While patience is a virtue, sometimes we are not always virtuous. Luckily, Silent Hill fans – especially the group of fifteen-plus modders who spent the last six years creating Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition – have just what you need to get you through to the remake’s launch.

If you have a gaming PC and can’t wait, or if you’d rather revisit the foggy memories (and city) of your youth, but not necessarily the foggy graphics, you should consider the Enhanced Edition fan project released on the 10th and final update to last month’s survival horror classic. Here’s an hour-long (!) video discussing all the latest changes.

The latest update includes “improved environmental features, fixed flashlight reflections, improved water visuals, true 60fps FMVs, a bunch of general gameplay improvements” on top of the Enhanced Edition’s major upgrades like widescreen support, higher definition graphics, upscaled fonts, and so much more. The official site has comparison images between the numerous versions of the game so you can get an idea of ​​what it looks like. Here’s a good example, with the PS2 version on the left and the Enhanced Edition on the right. 👀

To get started, you need to have the PC port of the game installed. Both the North American and European versions work. The PC game has been considered desertware for years, so it’s up to you to find a copy. This might be a good place to start. But once you have that installed, download the Enhanced Edition mod from their website and follow the instructions. You got this! I even managed to get it running from my Steam Deck, if that’s your thing.

And if you really want to change things up, consider this recently released camera mod from Zealot Tormunds, which adds a third-person over-the-shoulder camera option (à la the recent Resident Evil remakes) or a first-person camera, if you really want to reimagine it Silent Hill 2.