Spawn Kill Favorites: Resident Evil 2
Posted by WITA on June 12th, 2010
When it comes to horror video games, Resident Evil tops the chart, nails the head shots, and splatters the screen with blood and gore. Although the popular series changed its mainstream viral formula with the “action horror” award-winner Resident Evil 4, fans still consider the second game a hot favorite. Leon S. Kennedy may be a teenage girl’s knight in zombie gut-stained armor now, but he wasn’t always such a looker who rolled with Umbrella’s punches as slickly as the bad puns and bingo jokes. Once upon a time in Raccoon City, he was a rookie cop whose first day on the job ended in city-wide decimation. He slogged through grimy sewers, followed a corporation’s blood trail, befriended Redfield’s sister … and fell for one dangerous lady in red.



Resident Evil titles are some of the most anticipated games to come out of Capcom. The series, originally known for its haunting atmosphere and intense gameplay, is now being watched by fans for its unrelenting action and hardware-pushing graphics. Even with this shift to the series that came with the Nintendo Gamecube release of Resident Evil 4, every game under the Resident Evil umbrella has taken its cues from the original title.
It’s less than a month away and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has already gone gold and the first review is set to hit newsstands in a couple of weeks. In a recent PlayStation Blog post, Naughty Dog was happy to announce the review score given by PlayStation: The Official Magazine. Definitely can’t look too much into the score given it is a PlayStation exclusive title reviewed first on a PlayStation exclusive magazine but I’m sure we all know what to expect from the sequel. If you are the type of person to only look at the score and not read the review you’re in luck–Naughty Dog was so thrilled by the score they decided to announce it on the internet.
The original Resident Evil is more or less the purest example of a survival horror video game. Set in a mansion deep in the Arklay mountains, the main character was only given one task: survive the hordes of FUBAR monsters running around. Through the rest of the game, Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine eventually figure out exactly why they found themselves in the mansion that dreadful night (and who was responsible), as well as learn the fates of the many people working in and around the Umbrella-based facility.



