James Sunderland's life is shattered when his young wife Mary suffers a tragic death. Three years later, a mysterious letter arrives from Mary, beckoning him to return to their sanctuary of memories, the dark realm of Silent Hill. Now James must go back to that special place to uncover the truth, unaware that the answers he seeks require the ultimate sacrifice.
I'm usually very leery of console-to-PC translations. Video game companies have a bad habit of viewing a PC version of a console game as a "one-off." They'll occasionally just dump console code into an emulator, shove the thing in a box and ship it out the door, leaving gamers to deal with lousy console-resolution graphics, poor sound, and crappy gamepad-oriented controls poorly translated to a keyboard. Fortunately, Konami's Silent Hill 2 avoids most of those obvious traps, giving PC gamers a good translation of a great game. If SH2 doesn't fully take advantage of the PC as a platform, what is there is still the game that enthralled PlayStation 2 and Xbox owners. As it turns out, that's actually good enough. Read More »
Also known as: Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams
Also available on: PlayStation 2, Xbox
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