The original is also considered abandonware, so if you want the BEST Silent Hill 2 experience, track the original down, and run it with Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition.
You won't get the experience Konami gave us with the Silent Hill HD Collection and its messed up renderer. You'll get a fan-made rebuild of the original game executable that works on modern systems.
Don't waste your money on this DEI tainted version of a horror classic.
It's great that GOG is starting to offer these types of games.
GOG is the best gaming platform.
There are still many more games to be added..
missing games like:
-Spec ops:the line
-Uncharted 1,2 and 3
-Crysis 1,2 and 3 remastered
-Assassin's creed (all of them)
-Dead island definitive edition and riptide definitive edition x
-Resident evil 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (all of them)
-Max Payne 3
-GTA 4, GTA 5
-Far cry 3,4,5,6
-Alan wake 2 and Alan wake remastered
-Ghost recon: wildlands
-Ghost recon: Breakpoint
-Rise of the Tom raider
-Shadows of the Tom raider
-Remember me
-Devil may cry 4 and 5
-Mass effect legendary edition remastered and mass effect Andromeda
-Dying light 2
-Just cause 3 and 4
-God of gar Ragnarok
-Red dead redemption 1 and 2
-Space marine 2
-Monster Hunter world,rise etc.
-Tle last of us part 1 and part 2
-Dead space 2,3 and Dead space remake
-Quantum break
- Prototype 1 and 2
and many more games, and if GOG manages to bring them to this platform I will buy them all without thinking twice.
I'm very happy with GOG.
One of the greatest ever story games gets a well-deserver great remake.
But I am not buying it until they complete the story with the "Born From A Wish" expansion!
Unoptimised garbage, Enhanced Edition which has been worked on for 8 years has much more love put into it, than this stuttering nonsense that makes my GPU cry. it is so poorly made it relies on upscaling which is absolutely unnaceptable. A real disrespect to Masahiro Ito, Hiroyuki Owaku, Takayoshi Sato and the entire Team Silent. Only good thing is the music by Akira Yamaoka, but I still prefer the original. I wish Konami gave a proper Japanese team creative freedom to make something cool again. As much as I love Poland, Bloober Team did not have the capacity and that is not their fault, I am sure they tried their best and Konami is just ass to their workers and consumers. Sadly this review will get downvoted, but this is just not a game you will remember on your death bed compared to the original. Greed and materialism are strong in this world and Konami wanted to make sure they get some money as Silent Hill 2 was so successful, but even if it was programmed properly (even og SH2 PC port was in a better state, yes it lacked soft shadows etc but that was more of a directx limitation rather than bad work). I am into og SH2 more than half of my life, saw the making of, played the OG with born from a wish scenario, but when I played this, I was disgusted from the get-go. You will not get much of the atmosphere when all you hear is your GPU loading assets you cannot see, timing and shots/acting in the cutscenes, wrong camera, Maria/Mary distinction completely loses its meaning as they made her less sexy (I dont wanna spoil too much but her more revealing was the entire point). Even without the technical problems (i5 13400f, rtx 3060, 32gb ddr4, m2 ssd), this waste would be inferior to the original, that had its BRILLIANT own engine (thx for losing its source code Konami), not Unreal which was not even built for this type of game, I am done writing as it makes me upset, I do not wanna be negative so I apologize, please play Enhanced Edition (and rather buy SH4 on GOG)
