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Resident Evil 2 is a remake of the original 1998 sequel to Resident Evil: the game that started it all back in 1996; and what a legacy the franchise has left for gamers all around the world. This rendition of Resident Evil 2 is more than just a graphical update of an older game: it brings a classic into the modern era of next-gen gaming with newly refined controls, re-written script, photo-realistic graphics and edge-of-your-seat horror taken to the next level.

Capcom has brought a new classic into the world: re-infusing an already great game with fantastic gameplay upgrades and unparalleled tension and bringing it all into the 21st century.

Words cannot describe how much this game was worth the wait. Hats off and a standing ovation to the creators and staff of this game! Absolutely out of this world! WHAT A GAME!! Totally lives up to the original. Overwhelmed with the added nostalgia. Made me proud to be a Resident Evil fan for 23+ years. Deserves lots of awards! Well done!

One of my favorite film franchise, this game puts you in the middle of a hornets nest! Hours of creepy, jumpy feelings!

This game is spectacularly terrifying and is one of best remakes I've ever played. This game updates the original and adds more to it to make it even better. You have the choice to play as Leon or Claire each are unique with different weapons and story. This game looks spectacular the graphics are some the best I've seen in remake it looks so good when blow off a zombies head with a shotgun. I highly recommend if your a fan zombie games or the horror genre, this game is amazing.

Capcom have done it again and blown us all away! The Resident Evil 2 Remake had me on the edge of my seat the whole time! This game was tense, yet is different enough from the original Resident Evil 2 back in 1998 to be its own thing and give familiar players with some different surprises and references to the old games. Leon and Claire are some of the best video game characters of all-time, and the amount of detail in both the graphics and sound is fantastic! Not being fixed camera angles did not bother me at all, and let's face it the old style play is a bit dated nowadays. Nevertheless, this game is amazing and we already have a 2019 Game Of The Year candidate in January. Don't spoil the game for yourself and play it!

Well this is one of the greatest Remake of all time really.I m so happy to they added A/B scenerios.Gameplay is really awesome and they fineally remove damn karate thing.Game is really scarey and fell you alone.They remake the Resident Evil 1 Remake at 2002.I really like it I was hype about Re2 remake but they didn't.I start waiting and now 2019 It's really much longer but It's worth it.Just go and buy the game It's worth %10000 and Thank You Capcom...You Fineally listening your fans.

What an amazing survival horror game, i think it's just as good as re4 if not better, the atmosphere, music, characters and it actually feels like a resident evil game and it has zombies unlike 7, it doesn't focus on over the top action unlike 5 and 6, the franchise never really recovered post RE4 and to me RE2R is the only game that goes that far when it comes to the best in the series and it really improved on the original. Also use the original soundtrack, it makes the game way more terrifying than it already is.

10/10 a lot of people will say 7 but to me this was the true return to form for the series and it's easily the best survival horror game of the 8th generation.

I became a RE fan back in 2017 when RE7 came out and I love the game. After that, I started to learn history about the Resident Evil series about its story, reception, and development and I fall in love with it. The only RE games I played were 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Back in 2002 after RE1 remake was made, fans wanted a remake of RE2. In 2015, the game was announce in development and was finally released 4 years later and it was worth it.

Why can I only give this 10 stars? I would give it 100 if I could!

Well done to Capcom, this is how a remake should be done! Resident Evil was the first game I ever played and RE2 was the best game in the entire series for me. The original game was stunning for its time but this remake came at the perfect time and boy did Capcom go all out. Resident Evil 2 remake is a survival horror masterpiece.

The sense of nostalgia is definitely there as it brings back all of the great memories from the original, and sets an unbelievably high standard for video game remakes. The attention to detail that the creators have put into this game is stunning and gives you a real sense of being scared and Resident Evil 2 not only looks great, it plays well, and it forces you into a series of dark encounters that are a total rush.

This is definitely not a game for the faint hearted but a game everyone should own. A stunningly beautiful game and definitely a contender for GOTY!!

This is just an incredible example of a masterpiece remake that improved the game!!! In fact, it's the best and scariest part of the Resident Evil series.

The atmosphere of something - a feeling of hopelessness (especially when a Tyrant appears) haunts to the end.

The beginning of the game, of course, cuts into your head more, because you're really very tense, you have almost nothing, but there are a lot of tenacious infected in the area :) I also really liked the change of locations, even when we escape from the station - there is no relief, because new problems appear... It's interesting to play, there are various moments when it's worth turning on your head. Every self-respecting gamer should definitely play this game.

And by the way, at one time, Resident evil 2 was my first game that I was played with my father. So the remake dipped me into this vibe well

My rating: 8/10 (almost 9/10; Very cool)

Would've been bad if Capcom Didn't get some input for the game from fans

Now I don't know if I'm biased because I played the Resident Evil 3 Remake before this but to me the gameplay just feels so bare bones and bland compared to Resident Evil 3. First off, the map and general flow of the game requires a good amount of back tracking which I wouldn't be mad about if it wasn't for Mr. X. Mr. X in Resident Evil 2 is less of a boss and more of an obstacle that only slows you down, because you mainly encounter him in the RPD where many of the halls lack width whenever you encounter Mr. X you are essentially forced to run away from him rather than interact with him. Compare Mr. X to Nemesis in RE3, Nemesis chases the player and poses an actual threat to the player while also being able to be taken down without putting the player out of ammo thanks to the electrical boxes around the RE3 map, the player can also avoid getting hit by Nemesis by rolling which brings me into my next point. The combat movement of RE2 is essentially just running around or away from enemies, this can cause the gameplay to be less player controlled and make the gameplay resort to just getting lucky and praying that the enemies miss you, while in RE3 the dodge ability allows for gameplay to be more interactive as you can actually avoid things like licker attacks instead of just tanking them. I also found that the enemies in RE2 tend to be more of a bullet sponge them compared to those in RE3, for example, on standard you can shoot a zombie in the head 5 times and it won't die, and the hunter's in the sewer can basically take all of you ammo to kill. Overall I feel like the gameplay drags everything else in this game down heavily, if they have the gameplay system of RE3 I feel like I would enjoy the game and the gameplay more.

When is not an .50, or shotguns, looks like you hitting them with festin bullets, low pressure air gun. The game doesn't give much of this ammunition, ruining completely the gameplay.

I love Resident Evil 2 horror game, complete, great remake, opposite Resident Evil 3 remic

When I first heard that they were going to make a RE2 remake I will admit, I went into it a little skeptical. I'm a huge fan of the series and of course played the original RE2, but I figured they'd strip away what makes RE great (Like RE7) But my little brother got it and he lent it to me and I figured "Why not?" And gave it a try. Needless to say I was amazed and truly terrified from the start. I haven't felt as unsafe playing a RE game since RE4; this game really made me jump and just made me feel uneasy throughout. You get the feeling of being chased, panicking on whether or not to shoot the zombie or safe your ammo and run, you even feel claustrophobic at times. But unfortunately the story wasn't aaasss great as the original (At least for me) But then again, I have yet to play Claire's story or the second play through; So I'm going to play those and see if my review changes. That being said, I give this remake a 9. Still an amazing game and I highly recommend. (Fan of RE or not)

This is the remake all we want, the graphics the characters the story and the gameplay makes me love this game. I never play the PS1 original game but this is so awesome even it's remake. Can't describe it again, best remake game ever.

This game reminds me why I have so many hours clicked on all the past games. Thank you Capcom.

This remake is not only faithful to the original game but has tons of new features and content. This game has about 10 hours of gameplay, but, you get another 10 hours of gameplay if you play the other campaign, you can play as either Claire or Leon who both have their own intertwined story campaigns. Once you finish both, though, you unlock another extra story mode called, "The 4th Survivor." The boss fights are fun and challenging and the story is very well paced and is really immersing. Overall, great game with an awesome story.

As someone new to the Resident Evil series, I was excited to finally try Resident Evil 2 Remake. People say it's one of the greatest survival horror games ever and a cornerstone of the zombie apocalypse genre. But after playing it, I just don't get the hype. Sure, the story was decent, especially towards the end, and the way Leon and Claire's stories connect is cool, but the gameplay? Honestly, it was a mess.

Let's start with the zombies. These things are slow, clumsy, and barely threatening. I kept waiting for them to feel scary or dangerous, but they never did. Instead of any real tension, the game turned into a silly game of running around them in circles. There's no dodge button, so your best option is to try and fake them out, like it's some kind of football game. It's ridiculous, and after a while, it just felt boring.

The combat itself wasn't much better. Shooting a zombie doesn't feel satisfying. They take so many bullets to go down that it just becomes annoying. And even when you do manage to kill them, it feels more like you're ticking off a box than surviving some horrific encounter. It's just dull, repetitive, and frustrating.

Then there's the voice acting. I don't understand how a game this famous has dialogue that feels so flat. The characters are supposed to be terrified, but half the time they sound like they're just reading lines off a script. It made it really hard to care about what was happening. A game that's trying to sell you on fear and desperation needs its characters to sound like they actually feel it.

I'll admit, the story was one of the better parts of the game. The way Leon and Claire's paths overlap is pretty clever, and the ending had some genuinely exciting moments. But even a good story can't make up for gameplay that feels this bland and tedious.

Overall, I'm just baffled. Maybe it's a nostalgic masterpiece for longtime fans, but as someone trying to experience Resident Evil for the first time, this was a huge letdown.

'Resident Evil 2 (2019)' is a ground-up remake of the 1998 game of the same name. It brings itself into the modern day with excellent visuals, a third-person perspective and an acute focus on survival horror. I haven't played the original, so I'll simply review this title on its own terms. The game follows two characters, a police rookie named Leon and a college student named Claire, as they head to Raccoon City just as a zombie outbreak occurs. The pair start and end their journeys together, but the majority of the time they're on their own. There are, essentially, four campaigns, two of which follow Leon and two of which follow Claire. When you finish your first run with one character, a slightly different run unlocks for the second. This features a truncated opening, alternate puzzle solutions, differing item and enemy placement, an extra boss enemy and, of course, an earlier appearance of Mr. X, the hulking monstrosity that chases you for large segments of the game. Annoyingly, the two campaigns directly contradict one another at key points; if they were to both be occurring simultaneously as intended, there'd need to be multiple versions of certain characters, bosses and, even, locations. With a little fine-tuning, the first and second runs could have lined up perfectly for a satisfying overall experience. As is, they act more as what-if scenarios and the canonical narrative is somewhat unclear. This isn't a huge issue, though. Though they share similar structures and locations, the minutia of their plots are distinct and complement the characters they feature. You can suspend your disbelief enough for each campaign to be enjoyable in its own right. Even if the dialogue is ever-so-slightly generic, the performances are good and the graphics are absolutely stellar. The characters are realistic, the environment is detailed and the lighting is atmospheric. The animation is also amazing, featuring a variety of elements that might have been overlooked in a lesser title. As a whole, the thing is one of the best looking games in recent years. The gameplay focuses on exploration, puzzle solving and resource management. It's a highly engaging loop. Zombies don't go down in one headshot; sometimes they take fifteen. That's why it may just be best to kneecap them and run right past, though they'll then be a problem later. If they do grab you, they take a huge chunk off your health. Make no mistake, this isn't an action game. You move fairly slowly and even a basic shambling ghoul can be the death of you. There's never quite as much ammo as you'd like and you'll have to wrangle your inventory in order to make the most out of what you can find. The labyrinthine layout of the levels forces you to consider exactly what you're doing and when, using a sort of 'adventure game' logic that requires you to use items from elsewhere in the environment to progress. If you know what you're doing, you can beat the game in under two hours. That takes some practice, though, and your first playthroughs will likely take you a lot longer. There's a great sense of escalation as the enemies get tougher and the story's sense of urgency increases. The police station is suspenseful, the sewers are claustrophobic and the NEST is ominous. Though things do get more linear in the game's back half, the thing still remains as tense and exciting as ever. Its bosses are intimidating and well-designed, even if they occasionally seem like 'bullet sponges'. Overall, this is a fantastic game. It's highly replayable, too, as you'll likely be tempted to go for an 'S rank' or to beat the game on 'hardcore' - or, perhaps, do both at the same time. It's one of the best games of recent years and it's a stand-out in the survival horror genre. It's brilliant. 9/10