Silent Hill 2 is a 2001 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, and published by Konami. The game was released from September to November, originally for the PlayStation 2. The second installment in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill 2 centres on James Sunderland, a widower who journeys to the town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his dead wife informing him that she is waiting there for him. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Green, James Aaron. “‘Aren’t you Maria?’: The Uncanny and the Gothic in Silent Hill 2.” Gothic Studies 23.1 (2021): 1-20.
Rautzenberg, Markus. “Noise, Disturbance, Perturbation: The Interplay Between Transparency and Opacity as a Gameplay Device in Silent Hill 2.” Framing Uncertainty: Computer Game Epistemologies (2020): 73-89.
S̨engün, Sercan. “Silent Hill 2 and the curious case of invisible agency.” Interactive Storytelling: 6th International Conference, ICIDS 2013, Istanbul, Turkey, November 6-9, 2013, Proceedings 6. Springer International Publishing, 2013.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Nae, Andrei. “From Saviour to Colonial Perpetrator: Manipulating Player Empathy in Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill: Origins.” Parallax 28.2 (2022): 179-194.
Other games in the franchise
Silent Hill (1)
Silent Hill 2 (4)
Silent Hill 3 (1)