A lot of people criticized Bloober Team when Konami revealed its upcoming remake of Silent Hill 2. Die-hard fans were not happy with how the main protagonist, James Sunderland, looked in it. And, from the looks of it, Bloober Team has decided to slightly change his face.
Yesterday, the team updated the game’s Steam store page with the new face for James. So, here’s a comparison between his new face, his face from the reveal trailer, and his face from the original game.
To be honest, I never had any complaints about James’ face. So, this isn’t a major change for me. On the other hand, die-hard fans will be pleased with it. After all, his new face is closer to what he looked like in the original game.
Silent Hill 2 Remake will be using Unreal Engine 5. In February 2024, Konami shared its first gameplay trailer that somehow divided fans. Some even suggested that the game was more action-oriented now based on a trailer that was focusing on its combat mechanics. It seems to me that people want to hate something just for the heck of it. Don’t get me wrong, the trailer certainly looked a bit rough and it needed some more polish. However, it wasn’t also atrocious.
In October, Bloober Team also shared the initial PC system requirements for Silent Hill 2 Remake. According to them, an NVIDIA RTX2080 would be able to run it at 1080p/High/30fps. Now we all know how demanding Unreal Engine 5 can be. So, it will be interesting to see whether the devs will revise those PC requirements once the game becomes available for pre-order.
In June 2023, the voice actor of the main protagonist claimed that Silent Hill 2 Remake was planned for an early 2024 release. However, we are almost in the middle of 2024, and there is still no official release date for it. So, chances are we may wait until 2025. That, or we might get a release date announcement this Summer.
Stay tuned for more!
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It’s gonna be an unoptimized mess by a very incompetent team, james face is not gonna save that.
Very likely. Jappo dev (Except Capcom) hate PC, some of them can’t even make their game run properly on console, like Koel Techmo.
Bloober team is polish
hey at least they kept his gender. Lets not forget Fable 4 and Star Wars Outlaws https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/725a18a6ecf9ec99056f58e957d3097de09edeb5a01efc0f4e6ce49857fb760d.jpg
At least the new face is better this time.
So it’s ANOTHER DIFFERENT face than the original?!
About bloody time they did. James did Not look that f*kn Slavish, as they made him look!
Now he looks more like he Should!!
Nothing about Slavish ppl of bloody course. But right should be Right!!
“According to them, an NVIDIA RTX2080 would be able to run it at 1080p/High/30fps. Now we all know how demanding Unreal Engine 5 can be.”
2024 and bloober team still unable to master and optimise UE5 while smaller devs like Robocop did it well.. Seems like their team full of activist instead of coder and programmer
It looks way better.
They didn’t change his face, they just upped the graphics quality (better lighting and colorgrading) in general. The whole scene looks different and better now but it’s the same face.
Bro is confused
Yeah the original is more adult looking and the newer ones are more like these tranneewood leading tmen w thier sleek faces made with surgery, implants, fms and the hgh bulb head with close together long faces see gosling classic example but there are plenty of them. I replayed this whole series the originals and SH2 with the enhanced mod is really good by far my fav, sh3 needs almost nothing other than the basics from pcgw site, 4 also needs pcgw stuff and 5 needs some minor stuff. Kinda glad this is delayed other better things rn.
I also became obsessed with tranneewood ever since i saw Anna Nicole Smith peforming as a undercover trannee (or is it?) and the revelation scene in the movie Naked Gun.