Konami and Bloober Staff’s Silent Hill 2 remake has reached one other massive gross sales milestone, the 2 studios have introduced.
Per a press launch (which is in Japanese; we’re utilizing machine translation), the sport has managed to hit two million gross sales worldwide, which incorporates each bodily shipments and digital gross sales.
The brand new milestone signifies that Silent Hill 2 has racked up one other million gross sales since October, when it reached its first million after simply three days on sale. Naturally, which means gross sales have slowed down considerably, however that is arguably to be anticipated for what continues to be, ultimately, a reasonably area of interest sport.
The Silent Hill 2 remake has hit one other massive gross sales milestone.It is honest to say that Silent Hill 2’s numbers are maybe slightly extra modest than these of Capcom’s flagship Resident Evil remakes.
The Resident Evil 4 remake managed to rack up three million gross sales in simply two days, beating out the Resident Evil 2 remake, which hit the identical milestone inside its first week.
Nonetheless, direct comparisons are maybe unfair. Resident Evil is a collection that arguably has extra mainstream attraction than Silent Hill, with the latter being extra overtly centered on subtler, extra psychological horror and the previous focusing extra on motion.
The Silent Hill 2 remake can be doing considerably higher than ill-fated studio Items Interactive’s Alone within the Darkish reboot, which carried out so poorly that it sadly triggered the studio to be shut down.
When you’re not accustomed to the Silent Hill 2 remake, it is a reimagined model of the 2001 survival horror basic that comes courtesy of Layers of Worry and The Medium developer Bloober Staff.
The sport’s narrative is generally devoted to the unique, however the gameplay has been up to date; the motion now performs out with an over-the-shoulder digital camera paying homage to the aforementioned Resident Evil remakes quite than the extra conventional fixed-camera strategy of the 2001 sport.
You possibly can take a look at Silent Hill 2 proper now on PC and PlayStation 5.
