For those not coming to RE2 with a longstanding familiarity (surely plenty of people since it's been 17 since the original release on PS1) Resident Evil 2 follows Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield, two youths who find themselves trapped inside the zombie-infested Raccoon City and have to fight their...

Using a magnum kill a licker by shooting through a zombie's head

The stories don't match up

With Resident Evil 2, Capcom has stitched together a collection of faded memories and stuffed it full with modern game design and techn...

For more than a decade, Resident Evil has felt like a franchise struggling to find its identity. The seminal Resident Evil 4 put a greater focus on action, but subsequent entries lost their luster.

A fan-faithful remake rebuilt from the ground up and jam-packed with quality content. A package both longtime Resident Evil fans and newbies will enjoy.

(Red)Field of dreams

Dripping with atmosphere; Stunning visuals; Incredibly faithful; but still feels fresh and new; Superb use of sound; nice musical nods to the original

Tyrant's stalking can grow tiresome

The Resident Evil series is mostly broken up into two distinct eras. There's the survival-horror classics, and the action-fests that followed RE4. Lately,

The original Resident Evil 2 is the best game in the series. There, that got your attention, huh

Looks and sounds fantastic; Genuinely terrifying; THIS is how you do a remake

Can be incredibly stressful; Sherry is still in it; They might do Resident Evil 3 next

The original Resident Evil 2's horror dynamics garnered a huge amount of praise at the time. The 2019 remake makes the maximum use of modern technology to take them to an even higher plane.

Cleverly expanded yet faithful to the original; Separate story structure works nicely; Looks fabulous; Horror element brought to the fore; Loads of replay value; Iconic in every way

Certain ammo is too hard to find; Possible to face boss-battles without the necessary firepower

As a virus sweeps its way through the streets of Raccoon City, a place that first haunted the nightmares of gamers 21 years ago, we follow two familiar heroes as they battle their way through the hordes of the undead to get the hell of out Dodge.

1998 gave me my favourite game of all-time, Resident Evil 2 . It brought everything that a fan would want from a sequel, it was bigger than the previous game with a total of four campaigns (not including the Hunk & Tofu modes); it looked better, more immersive story-telling and was arguably better...