Speaking of dying, you’ll have to get used to it - especially if you play on the harder difficulties. It’s sickening to watch him desperately grasp for aid as they tear into his neck. Nevertheless, it’s still harrowing to watch Leon get dogpiled by two zombies. Nor is there anything qui te as wonderfully brutal as the chainsaw beheadings of Resident Evil 4. Your own deaths never reach that level of grim spectacle. It’s not a game to watch while tucking into a pulled pork sandwich - that’s for sure. An early cutscene shows a man getting ripped in half by zombies, his blood-drenched guts glistening under the eerie lighting. While the textures and lighting are stunning, it’s the disturbing level of detail in the gore that draws the eye.
Visually, Resident Evil 2 is drop-dead gorgeous in the most disgusting way possible. This makes landing those all-important headshots an actual nightmare. Their heads bob and weave along with their jerky, stilted movements. To counter this, Resident Evil 2’s zombies shamble around erratically. The camera is uncomfortably close, limiting your field of vision and ensuring an overbearing, oppressive atmosphere throughout. Capcom accomplishes with framing and lighting what the original PlayStation game did with unwieldy tank controls.Īiming is naturally easier from this new perspective, too, so gone are the days of firing vaguely in the direction of scary noises and hoping for the best. The behind-the-back camera makes combat and navigation infinitely more palatable, especially by modern standards, but a real effort was made to maintain that claustrophobic feel of the original. The major switch is the change from the fixed-camera angles of the original to an over-the-shoulder camera à la Resident Evil 4. Trapped within the city, our dynamic duo must find a way to escape while also uncovering the mystery of how the infection started.įor the most part, Resident Evil 2 is a faithful remake of the 1998 title. It’s a classic survival horror affair with limited supplies, brutal combat, and a host of esoteric puzzles to solve. Kennedy, a rookie cop arriving for his first day on the job, and Claire Redfield, the sister of Resident Evil protagonist Chris Redfield.
Resident Evil 2 is set a few months after the original and documents the demise of Raccoon City due to a zombie outbreak. Luckily, Capcom knocked it out of the park once again with this stunning retelling of the fall of Raccoon City. Given its immensely successful redo of the original Resident Ev il - and the subsequent remaster of that version - Resident Evil 2’s second go around has expectations at an all-time high. Twenty years after the release of the original Resident Evil 2, Capcom comes to us with this ambitious remake.
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