Bloober Team lead talks remaking Silent Hill 2 and "mastering the art of horror"
Interview | The Medium studio has a lot to prove, and it plans on doing just that
Bloober Team is gunning for the very top of the horror game developer pantheon, having shipped six consecutive spookfests in under a decade and nearing the finish line on the highly anticipated Silent Hill 2 remake. The Poland-based studio is determined to prove it can play ball with the greats, but a largely undecided horror community is watching anxiously to see whether its biggest test yet is a slam dunk or a disappointment
Mastering the art of horror is the path we follow and to which we always want to hold on," says Kacper Michalski, Bloober Team head of production. "Our studio has grown significantly over the last few years, and now we're at a point when we feel fully mature to handle even the biggest projects.
"Konami bestowed great honor upon us by granting us the privilege to remake Silent Hill 2, one of the most important horror games of all time. Such a distinction speaks for itself and proves that our studio breathes horror. I believe that thanks to our upcoming big projects we will achieve our goal and reach the top of the pantheon of horror creators in the coming years, while retaining our values intact."
Being handed the keys to one of the most beloved horror games of all time is a big honor, indeed, but it's also a daunting task filled with challenges posed by the deep gulf in technical capabilities available to developers today compared to when Silent Hill 2 first launched in 2001.
The state of the art in gaming keeps advancing at an amazing rate," Michalski says. "It’s astonishing how developers use their creativity and push cutting-edge technologies to the limits to spiff up the original titles. However, this poses new challenges, like how to make an entirely new game while keeping that mojo that everyone loved about the original."
We'll have to wait for the Silent Hill 2 remake to release to learn Bloober Team's answer to that task, but there's no denying the recent successes of other prominent horror developers. Capcom has triumphantly revived the Resident Evil series with a steady clip of acclaimed remakes and original sequels, Dead Space is back and better than ever with this year's remake, and the System Shock remake from Nightdive Studios is a faithful recreation of the 1994 cult classic original
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