

The bio-weapon is an unrelenting slasher movie tribute injected into an already intense zombie apocalypse. Tyrant is a hulking, unstoppable, trenchcoated menace - and I adore him. X) crashes the party in the main RE2 campaign, unlike the 1998 original where he patiently waited to terrorize you until the second playthrough. Capcom nails the details and expertly embellishes existing survival horror systems. Multiple stylish ’90s fanny packs can be found to expand your inventory. A crafting system similar to RE7’s lets players make the ammo they prefer. Knives can be used both offensively and as get-out-of-jail-free-card defensive weapons, introducing new strategic options.

Ammo and health are still your precious, limited lifeblood.īeyond the intuitive gunplay changes, this remake adds meaningful new gameplay options. Enemies’ toughness and agility places the priority on subduing and evading rather than destroying everything, which ratchets up the tension of every encounter. Don’t let the empowering aiming system fool you into thinking this is a guns-blazing action game – zombies can shrug off more bullets than ever. The modern third-person gunplay merges seamlessly with the traditional, atmospheric survival horror trappings.

Capcom’s stunning 2002 remake of the original Resident Evil is perhaps the finest horror game ever made, so quality expectations were high heading into the RE2 remake.
