The digital art book for Konami and Bloober Team’s remake Silent Hill 2 has revealed an alternate look at three of the game’s central characters.
Featured in the Silent Hill 2 remake digital art book is concept art from the game’s key locations and objects, alternate outfits and character designs for James, Angela, and Maria. Screenshots of the latter can be seen below.
Silent Hill 2 Remake Alternate Character Designs
Alternate character designs from the Silent Hill 2 remake art book for James, Angela, and Maria can be seen below.
James
Maria
Angela
These illustrations for James, Maria, and Angela are essentially different iterations created by the concept artist based on their vision for the characters. One design for each character was then finalized to be used in the game. As seen above, the artwork includes outfit variations for both Maria and Angela.
Previously, it was revealed that an alternate version of the Silent Hill 2 remake is present in the game’s physical copies, and can be accessed by not having any updates installed. Besides the lack of polish, the on-disc version of the Silent Hill 2 remake has a few notable differences from the updated version. Some of the cutscenes are viewed from different camera angles in both versions. Additionally, the character Angela has much thicker eyebrows in the on-disc version. These differences are likely down to artistic changes made during the polishing phase of the game’s development.
One of the cutscenes featured in the on-disc version of the Silent Hill 2 remake depicts Angela from a camera angle that became the focus of plenty of backlash from fans. Social media was ablaze with negative sentiments toward the character models in comparison to their counterparts in the original, particularly Angela. Character faces do tend to look different in the remake, as developer Bloober Team has its own artistic interpretation of the original PS2 survival horror game from decades ago.
