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‘Silent Hill 2’ Remake Gets ESRB Rating

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Thanks to the ESRB, we’re getting closer to the eventual release of Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has posted their rating for the upcoming remake, which as you’d expect, gets a Mature rating for “Blood and Gore, Language, Sexual Themes, Violence.”

Spotted by VGChartz, the listing for Silent Hill 2 on the ESRB website gives a summary of the game, as well as detailing what constitutes the game’s M rating. Of note is the description of some of the environments, which “depict large bloodstains and/or intestines/organs on walls, floors, and surrounding bodies.” Silent Hill 2‘s cutscenes also pile on the disturbing stuff, including characters being impaled, a character suffocated to death with a pillow, and enemies with body parts sewn together.

The nods to sexuality in the original Silent Hill 2 appear to also be back. Though the entry doesn’t list the infamous Pyramid Head abusing the Mannequin scene, we do get “characters pole-dancing in strip-club settings”, along with the instances of suggestive dialogue that was the case in the original game.

For those not in the know, receiving an ESRB rating is typically one of the last steps a game goes through before release. All of the content that’s to be included in the game has to be in the version of the game that’s submitted to the ratings board. Furthermore, in order for the game to be made available on Steam or the PlayStation Store, it has to get a rating that’s within the platform’s guidelines (no Adults Only rating).

In other words, the game is one step closer to being released. The question of when is still to come, obviously.

Silent Hill 2 is currently in development for PC via Steam and the PlayStation 5.

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‘Resident Evil’ Cast Reunite With Rebecca Chambers’ Actress [Watch]

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Director Andrew Saullo has just dropped the second Resident Evil cast reunion. And this time, Charlie KraslavskyGreg Smith and Eric Pirius (who played Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Albert Wesker, respectively) are joined by the surprise addition of Rebecca Chambers’ actress, known as Linda! The quartet were joined by Saullo, as well as Residence of Evil founder JJ Trulock to discuss (what else?) their experience with Resident Evil, as well as some behind-the-scenes info on the shoot for the cutscenes.

Regarding the shoot for the cutscenes, Linda said that the experience “left a really big impact” on her at the time. “It was a big day. It was a wild shoot and it was very different than anything else that I had been doing in Japan at the time when I was modelling.” Still, Linda did remember her fellow actors, though she admitted that they all “looked a little bit different” at the time, including herself. “I remember for the shoot, I actually had blonde hair, and they spray painted my hair that morning so I would look more like Rebecca.”

As for her knowledge of Resident Evil, Linda admitted that she’s still learning about the series and her character. “I didn’t know a lot about the job, or that anyone was looking for [me] up until probably about four years ago, where someone reached out to me and they found me. But even then, I didn’t understand the magnitude of the entire situation. Only now I’m realizing like wow, there’s maybe someone out there that you know it’s like ‘Wow, that’s Rebecca Chambers!’. So it’s new to me, and I’m kind of just going with it.”

The interview (which you can check out below) also includes a special announcement of a four-part fan-made web series, which will be directed by Andrew Saullo (who also directed the fan-made short The Keeper’s Diary, in case you missed it). All four of the actors will be reprising their roles in the web series. It will not be an official Resident Evil series (for copyright reasons). Crowdfunding for the project will be launched “soon”.

 

 

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