20 Years Of PlayStation: 20 Best Video Games So Far

8. Silent Hill 2

As far as horror goes, there are two main flavours; east and west. West is very much what you're seeing continued in the fantastic Until Dawn; gore-happy, packed full of jump-scares, occasionally having a hulking brute be the 'big bad' behind everything. Y'know, what Resident Evil set in motion. The flip-side to this is eastern horror, a collection of tropes that play on your mind, question what you think you saw in the background of a given image - and essentially bury themselves deep in your mind, hammering you with an intoxicating atmosphere that never lets up, even when you turn everything off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh6LhkA3698 THAT, is Silent Hill 2, the perfected execution on the original game's premise of a small town that manifests all sorts of horrific imagery and macabre symbolism straight out of whichever 'host' is wandering around its streets. The story for this second instalment still has fans debating the 'proper' ending, but its the journey to get there that'll stick with you the most.