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It's a remake, but it's never a slave to the source material, adding or cleverly remixing enough elements to make it feel brand new. They just moan and lurch and grab, and there's something enjoyably back-to-basics about that-a feeling that echoes through every claustrophobic hallway of this confident remake.Īfter the subversive, rule-breaking Resident Evil 7, with its grimy Southern Gothic aesthetic and intimate first-person horror, Resident Evil 2 is a return to a more familiar style of game. They don't sprint or explode or sprout thrashing parasites like they do in newer Resident Evil games. Turn a corner, and as your flashlight beam catches their glassy white eyes they screech and trudge towards you, arms outstretched, jaws slung with glistening blood. Shoot a leg off and they keep coming, dragging themselves along the floor, reaching at you with pale, clawing hands.
