Rookie police officer Leon Kennedy and trigger-happy college student Claire Redfield find themselves trapped in zombie-infested Raccoon City and its ostentatious Raccoon City Police Department headquarters. The core remains, the characters and the story and the basic structure. Not enough to recapture the original magic, mind you, but still a welcome gesture to the series’ history.īut instead Capcom’s rebuilt Resident Evil 2 as a modern game. That would’ve been enough to placate the old-timers, I think. While both its predecessor and Resident Evil 4 received multiple remasters and re-releases, poor Resident Evil 2 hasn’t even received a new coat of paint since its 1998 release, left to languish in PlayStation 1 purgatory.Īll Capcom needed to do was give Resident Evil 2 the HD treatment, then: Reworked controls, better textures, but the same fixed camera angles and awkward shooting. Not nearly as iconic as the original Resident Evil and its mansion, Resident Evil 2 is nevertheless beloved by longtime fans-and it’s been left to rot.
You’d never mistake it for a modern game though, nor could a newcomer understand what it was like playing Resident Evil circa 1996-when it looked not just good-for-its-age but incredible, and when a polygonal dog jumping through a plate glass window was enough to scar a generation. In other words, Resident Evil HD was playable. “It’s obviously a game from a specific time-from the fixed camera angles to the limited inventory to the three-second door-open transitions (originally used to mask load times) to the amount of hand-holding the game does (none), this game could only have been made when it was originally made.” When I played and finally finished the 2015 remaster, Resident Evil HD, I was torn-I could see why people loved it, but it was too clunky for me to appreciate except in an academic sense. I undoubtedly played some of the original as a kid, but not enough to make a lasting impact on me. Resident Evil epitomizes the “I was too late” feeling, for me.
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