You might be tired of all of these fan remakes of Silent Hill games without Konami telling us just what exactly they’re doing with the franchise. But, as it goes, until Konami finally reveals something, we’ll have to rely on the fans for giving us our fix. Plus, it’s always cool to see just what fans of varying experience in game development come up with in their tributes. Case in point: a YouTuber known as Silent has shared a video showing off their remake of Silent Hill 2 in Unreal Engine 5.
Rather than remake the assets entirely (Silent admits that they aren’t an artist), the assets from Silent Hill 2 were exported from the original game, which were then rebuilt and tweaked with Blender. From there, Silent was able to recreate scenes from Silent Hill 2 in Unreal Engine 5, with the added bonus of using Unreal Engine 5’s ray traced reflections and dynamic shadows. Silent also rebuilt the lighting system for the game, which is further detailed in the video below. Silent also added both a first-person and third-person camera to the game for a modern flare.
According to Silent, the goal of the project was to push the original game to its limits within a modern game engine. The result is certainly better than what we got with Konami’s efforts in the Silent Hill HD Collection, but that’s admittedly a pretty low bar already.
Thanks to DSOGaming for finding this one.
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