Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams (2001) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is an updated version of of Silent Hill 2. It contains all of the content of the original version and adds several pieces of new content. The most significant is a new short…

90 19 December 2001

What Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is an adventure game developed by Team Silent and released in 2001. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

James Sunderland has arrived in the town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his wife Mary, telling him to meet her in their special place in Silent Hill. However his wife died three years ago, and has kept the secrets surrounding her death. James decides to honor the letter's request, wondering if this is a sick joke or if there is more to this. As he reaches the outskirts of the town, James finds that the road is blocked, and parks at an abandoned restroom. Little does he realize that this is the first step forward into the mystery of Silent Hill and his own past.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are drama, horror, mystery and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Silent Hill series

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is the fifth of 39 entries we hold in the Silent Hill series. The next entry was Silent Hill 3 in 2003. Its critic score of 90 is 16 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Silent Hill 2 at 90.

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How it was received

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 53 votes.

What it launched against

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams launched on 19 December 2001, within three weeks of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Ikaruga and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Ikaruga, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.

Cheats and codes

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