PlayStation officially revives PS2 classic we thought was gone forever

As we suspected, Siren - or Forbidden Siren, depending on where you're based - has made its grand return to PlayStation, joining PS Plus’ premium tier with an enhanced new version.

Last month, a new version of Siren surfaced online, receiving a rating on the Korean Ratings Board.

The game originally launched on the PlayStation 2 in 2003 and comes from the mind of Keiichiro Toyama, perhaps best known as the writer and director of Silent Hill.

Siren has always remained fairly accessible with the latest version landing on the PlayStation 4.

That particular version wasn’t very well received though so while there are some PS2 era gems perhaps more in need of a revival, Siren’s isn’t totally undeserved.

While we won’t get to give this ‘enhanced’ version a whirl until it launches on PlayStation Plus on 15 October, it certainly sounds as if it’ll be an improvement upon its predecessor.

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Siren will now be natively available as a PlayStation 5 game.

“Experience Siren, originally released on PS2, now enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters. Midnight. A siren calls and a sea of red water mysteriously surrounds the mountain village Hanuda. Slowly, a terrible force transforms the inhabitants into shibito, undead husks of their old selves, fuelled by evil and hate,” reads the PlayStation blog.

“Play as one of 10 characters caught in a living nightmare. You have three days to learn how their paths intersect as they try to stay alive. Survival depends on your ability to ‘sightjack’ or the power to see through the eyes of friends and foes. There is no one hero. There is little hope.”

That’s not the only beloved classic to receive a few new bells and whistles.

Dino Crisis will join the premium tier on the same day, this time with “up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters”.

R-Type Dimensions EX and The Last Clockwinder round out this month’s premium line-up, while Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Tour de France 2023, Overpass 2, Firefighting Simulator The Squad, Ghostbusters: Spirit Unleashed, Return to Monkey Island, Gris, The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me, Two Point Campus, and Dead Island 2 all join the extra tier.

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