Game of the Year: Best PS5 Remake or Remaster of 2024

Alongside our Game of the Year top 10 list and personal picks from the Push Square editorial team, we are recognising the best PS5 games of 2024 in select categories. Today is the turn of the best PS5 remake or remaster of 2024.

Bronze Trophy: Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered

Nobody wanted it when the project was rumoured, but the proof is in the pudding, and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered has proved a lot of doubters wrong with probably the best example of what a remaster can achieve in 2024. Nixxes has revolutionised the Guerrilla Games effort with a graphical improvement that puts it on par with Forbidden West, and the PS5 Pro takes it to another level. It's now one of the best-looking games on Sony's console; an impressive achievement for a game originally released seven years ago.

Read our Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered PS5 review through the link.

Silver Trophy: Persona 3 Reload

Atlus has had an absurdly strong 2024, and while Metaphor: ReFantazio will take most of the plaudits, the excellent job it did remaking Persona 3 can't be forgotten about. Bringing back SEES to help fight against the monstrosities of the Dark Hour was a genius move, allowing this PS2 classic to shine all over again and introduce it to a new audience after Persona 5 sold gangbusters. Its dungeon crawling is addictive, the remade visuals are wonderful, and the quality-of-life improvements help enhance the JRPG in the areas the original fell short. It's an all-round excellent game, so how about a Persona 4 remake next, Atlus?

Read our Persona 3 Reload PS5 review through the link.

Gold Trophy: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth a pure remake that sticks completely to its source text? Just like Final Fantasy VII Remake, absolutely not. However, even stripped of those additional elements, where Rebirth is faithful to the PS1 classic makes it one of 2024's biggest highlights in this category. Adopting a more open zone format, Square Enix breathes fresh life into memorable locations like Cosmo Canyon and Gongaga to an astonishingly high quality. The majority of what you remember from the original title is there, but now expanded and bigger — just like the first part of the remake project. It may rightly have its critics, but it's impossible to look past Final Fantasy VII Rebirth being one of 2024's best remakes.

Read our Final Fantasy VII Rebirth PS5 review through the link.

Platinum Trophy: Silent Hill 2

To say Bloober Team had its doubters while remaking Silent Hill 2 would be an understatement and a half. We doubted the developer could do it to a high bar based on past projects, and so did you. We've never been happier to be so wrong.

The PS5 remake of Silent Hill 2 faithfully brings back the PS2 horror masterpiece and expands on it in the right ways to create one of 2024's greatest highlights. A genuine Game of the Year contender, Bloober Team had worked with Konami to craft something truly special. Its story is resurrected just as it was first written in 2001. The terrifying town remains the same, except built upon in select areas to offer more explorative opportunities and new ideas. Silent Hill 2 on PS5 is the same as it was on PS2, but it's also not. That's the best thing about these kinds of experiences: you can be faithful while modernising and redefining the source text. Silent Hill 2 does both, making for the very best remake this year.

Read our Silent Hill 2 PS5 review through the link.

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