JULY 2020 PCWorld 89like last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
(go.pcworld.com/mdrn)?
- SILENT HILL 2
Silent Hill 2 is lauded as one of horror
gaming’s high-water marks—mostly by
people who played it circa 2001. Horror
games age particularly poorly though,
because their impact often relies on the
player “buying in,” so to speak. Silent Hill 2’s
story is as layered and grim as
ever, but it’s a bit hard to
appreciate shackled to its
original environs and stilted
animations.
Resident Evil 2 is proof
horror games of the era can be
resurrected though, and Silent
Hill started as little more than a
Resident Evil clone. Go ahead
Konami, “borrow” the idea of a
remake. Or do literally anything
with Silent Hill, please. It
deserves the same love as its
Capcom counterpart.- PRINCE OF
PERSIA: THE
SANDS OF TIME
Prince of Persia essentially
died when Assassin’s Creed
took off, but Sands of Time
(go.pcworld.com/sntm)
deserves love. It’s still the
high point of the series, with its ruined palace
host to plenty of iconic moments that are ripe
for reimagining. The storybook framing is still
surprisingly unique as well, with the prince’s
“No, that’s not how it happened” admonition
upon death lending the experience a Princess
Bride vibe. The challenge would be making
climbing-around-an-environment interesting
again. Novel during the Prince of Persia era,
we’ve had more than enough of it between
4.5.