Both are essentially the same with just a different box/label design. Both do offer Maria's "Born from a Wish" scenario as well as new weapons and items in it. The graphics and lighting effects are supposed to be improved a bit.

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EDIT: As noted in the comments, it seems that PS2 originals are currently a lot easier to find than they were when I last tried to replace my copy of Silent Hill 2 - although you'll obviously also need an appropriate way to play the game once you've bought it). The real question though is just how nobody at Hijinx HQ noticed this glaring difference between the two SKUs before gold masters were sent off. It's also equally difficult to imagine how most of the other glaring bugs made it through the quality control mechanisms of both Konami and the platform holders. It boggles the mind how the PS3 version's hard-drive-induced frame-rate drops, along with sections of out-of-sync audio, could have made their way into the final game in the first place. This is the only game that offers a fully-fledged fan patch which makes it on par and even enhances it beyond the PlayStation 2 version. At this point, it has become the definitive version of experiencing the game over any emulation. Native gameplay on CRT can still be seen as superior by traditionalists. But for almost everyone else this should be the version to play nowadays. So then, Xbox One owners now have the opportunity to experience one undeniable horror masterpiece and one less dazzling, but still excellent game. Which would all be wonderful if it wasn't for the fact that both remasters in the Silent Hill HD Collection are exceptionally poor efforts, and far from the best way to sample a legendary series. Naturally, both titles have aged. The loose combat system and sometimes excruciatingly slow place are things modern videogames would struggle to get away with. The controls are as dodgy as ever, even when switching over to the criminally underutilized “2D controls” that simulate modern analog movement, and the menu system is needlessly fiddly. Nevertheless, I can still play and adore these games today and remain thoroughly absorbed in a pair of gorgeously grotesque titles, the likes of which have not been seen before or since.James Voice Actor Speaks Out About Silent Hill 2 HD Re-Casting". The Gaming Liberty. June 10, 2019. Archived from the original on June 8, 2012 . Retrieved October 19, 2019.

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a b c d e Minkley, Johnny (March 30, 2012). "Silent Hill HD Collection Review". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on May 31, 2012 . Retrieved February 5, 2014. One of the best PS1 emulators - especially as a standalone emulator or pre-Beetle HW. It is also capable of enhancing the PS1 experience but is not as feature-ridden as Beetle HW. There isn’t any point to use this emulator over Beetle HW anymore in most terms. One horrible side effect of the added audio is that the new actors struggle to match the lip movements of the characters, and as such, vocals sometimes end up horribly out of sync with the visuals. the Great Knife in Silent Hill 2 and the katana in Silent Hill 3. While the Great Knife is only useful for one boss fight, the katana isThe original Silent Hill games ran on hardware that didn't enjoy the benefits of hardware anti-aliasing and it appears that Hijinx hasn't made any effort to introduce it here. Resolution is confirmed at native 720p, but there's no evidence of any edge-smoothing as such. It's more than a little disappointing when directly compared with Bluepoint's work on the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, where both MGS2 and its sequel flowed smoothly at 60 frames per second with multi-sampling anti-aliasing adding greatly to the quality of the overall presentation. Works flawlessly together from any config starting from native to several enhanced upscaled resolutions and various fixes. To my knowledge not as enhanced as Beetle HW though.

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NTSC/US releases are the most expensive releases on the secondhand market today. Prices can go easily above 120 USD for literally any game. On the upside, though it has guaranteed English subs. a b Yin-Poole, Wesley (August 24, 2011). "Voice actor defends Silent Hill 2 HD". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on October 19, 2019 . Retrieved October 19, 2019.The advantage however is that those ports won’t need newer hardware. SH2 Enhanced Edition requires you something like an Intel Q6600 (i7 predecessor from 2007), some sort of GPU and 4 GB of ram. Anything can run these games at this point basically.