The Silent Hill 2 Remake Wikipedia page was locked down after its list of review scores from the press was edited to make them lower.
Silent Hill 2 is Bloober Team’s well-received remake of Konami’s classic 2001 psychological horror game for PC and PS5 (it’s console exclusive to PS5 for one year, Sony has confirmed). It sees protagonist James Sunderland following a mysterious letter from his late wife, Mary, and a search for clues in the terrifying namesake town, which is teeming with nightmarish monsters.
As reported by Eurogamer, admins were forced to make Wikipedia’s Silent Hill 2 Remake page ‘semi-protected’ after what was called “persistent disruptive editing.”
Wikipedia’s rules state that semi-protection is sometimes necessary “to prevent vandalism” to popular pages, and that’s exactly what happened here, with admins issuing a number of updates that changelog entries said were “to fix trolling.”
IGN’s was among the review scores tampered with. IGN’s Silent Hill 2 Remake review returned an 8/10, but it was lowered to 6/10. Eurogamer’s score dropped down to 0/5 after awarding the game a five-star review. At the time of this article’s publication, the review scores were accurate.
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Why did this happen? Eurogamer speculates it may be driven by trolls who are upset about changes made to the character’s faces and clothes.
Silent Hill 2 Remake is having a better time of it over on Steam, where it currently enjoys an ‘overwhelmingly positive’ user review rating from over 3,000 reviews. (Silent Hill 2 Remake’s global release date is October 8, but advanced access is available now.)
Wikipedia’s Silent Hill 2 Remake page protection is set to expire on October 9, although admins may need to keep an eye on it in the near-term at least.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
