[STEAM] Silent Hill 2 Remake Wikipedia Page Locked Down After ‘Persistent Disruptive Editing’ Lowers Review Scores

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The Silent Hill 2 Remake

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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 (

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). 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

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, admins were forced to make

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‘semi-protected’ after what was called “persistent disruptive editing.”

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’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.

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returned an 8/10, but it was lowered to 6/10. Eurogamer’s score dropped down to 0/5 after

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. At the time of this article’s publication, the review scores were accurate.

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-embed-wrapper iframe { margin-left: 0 !important; } 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.)

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’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.

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