Resident Evil 2
The groundbreaking survival horror masterpiece presented across two discs - Disc 1 (Leon S. Kennedy) and Disc 2 (Claire Redfield). Experience Raccoon City's zombie outbreak from two perspectives with interconnected narratives. Your choices as rookie cop Leon directly affect college student Claire's campaign through the revolutionary 'Zapping System', creating four distinct playthrough combinations.
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Story
Depending on which order the scenarios are played in, the player experiences one of two courses of events which mutually contradict each other. This plot summary covers only the path followed by playing the Claire A and Leon B scenarios, which was suggested by Capcom to be the canon version of events. On September 29, 1998, two months after the events of the first Resident Evil , most citizens of the Midwestern American mountain community of Raccoon City have been transformed into zombies by the T-virus , a biological weapon secretly developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella . Leon S.
Kennedy , a Raccoon Police Department officer on his first day of duty, meets Claire Redfield , a college student looking for her brother Chris . After being separated, Leon and Claire each make their own way to the Raccoon Police Station. They discover that most of the RPD has been killed, and that Chris has left town to investigate Umbrella's headquarters in Europe. They split up to look for survivors and find a way out of the city.
While searching for an escape route, Claire meets a little girl, Sherry Birkin, who is on the run from an unknown creature, and Leon encounters Ada Wong , who claims to be looking for her boyfriend John, an Umbrella researcher from Chicago . RPD Chief Brian Irons had been bribed by Umbrella to hide evidence of the company's experiments in the outskirts of the city. He concealed their development of the new G-virus , an agent capable of mutating a human into the ultimate bioweapon. Leon has multiple encounters with a Tyrant, a monster air-dropped into the police station by Umbrella to seek the G-virus.
Irons tries to murder Claire but is killed by a G-virus mutant. Claire and Sherry escape through the sewers and become separated. After splitting up with Leon, Ada finds Sherry and picks up a golden pendant the girl loses while running away. Further into the sewers, Ada reluctantly teams up with Leon again, after he insists on his duty to protect her.
They encounter a middle-aged woman who fires at Ada, but Leon jumps between them and takes a bullet himself. Ada ignores the unconscious Leon and follows the woman, who reveals herself to be Sherry's mother Annette and the wife of William Birkin , the Umbrella scientist who created the G-virus. In an attempt to protect his life's work from special agents sent by the Umbrella headquarters, he injected himself with the virus, which turned him into the malformed creature and is now chasing Sherry because of her genetic make-up. Annette recognizes her daughter's pendant and attempts to take it from Ada.
A fight ensues, during which Annette is thrown over a railing. Ada learns that the golden locket contains a sample of the G-virus, and later – taken over by her emotions – returns to Leon, tending to his bullet wound. Meanwhile, Claire is reunited with Sherry and discovers that William has implanted his daughter with an embryo to produce offspring. Leon, Ada, Claire, and Sherry advance through an abandoned factory connected to Umbrella's secret underground research facility.
An attack by William leaves Ada heavily wounded, and Leon explores the laboratory to find something to treat her. He is interrupted by a psychotic Annette, who says that Ada's relationship with John was only a means of getting information about Umbrella because Ada is a spy sent to steal the G-virus for an unknown organization. Leon does not believe her, saying he trusts Ada. Just as Annette is about to shoot Leon, the Tyrant appears, and she retreats.
Ada returns to save Leon and battles the Tyrant, which falls into a pit of molten metal. Ada is mortally wounded from the fight; she and Leon confess their love for each other before Ada stops breathing. Meanwhile, Annette tries to escape with another sample of the G-virus but is fatally wounded by her mutated husband; before she dies, she tells Claire how to create a vaccine that will stop the mutations caused by the embryo within Sherry. After preparing the cure, Leon and Claire reunite at an emergency escape train and inject Sherry with the vaccine, which saves her life.
En route, Leon is assisted in terminating the now-mutated Super Tyrant by an unseen figure; Leon briefly thinks it is Ada, but is unable to positively identify her voice over the noise. Grown to gigantic size, William follows Leon and Claire, but is destroyed when the train self-destructs. After escaping from the city with Sherry, Leon intends to take down Umbrella, while Claire continues to search for Chris. HUNK , one of the surviving special agents sent by Umbrella, completes his G-virus retrieval mission.
Gameplay Systems
Resident Evil 2 is a third-person survival horror game which features the same basic gameplay as its predecessor, Resident Evil . Set in Raccoon City, a fictional town in the Midwestern Arklay Mountains, the game offers a choice of two protagonists; rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy or college student Claire Redfield , as they attempt to survive a zombie outbreak in the city. The player explores Raccoon City while fighting monsters and solving puzzles.
While the player characters may be equipped with firearms , limited ammunition adds a tactical element to combat, forcing the player to choose between engaging or evading encounters. The game uses tank controls , meaning that pressing up moves the character forward, down reverses, and left and right rotates, independently of the camera perspective. On the status screen, the player can check the condition of the player character, view a map of the area, re-read obtained files, and equip or combine items. The characters' current health can also be determined by their posture and movement speed.
For example, a character will hold their stomach in pain if wounded, and will limp slowly if on the verge of death. The player character will take damage whenever they are caught by an enemy or hazard, and if they take too much damage, they will die, causing a game over . Herbs and first aid spray can be used to heal. Safe rooms scattered throughout the city contain typewriters , where the player may spend ink ribbons to save their progress, and item boxes that can store items, which are necessary because the player characters can only carry a limited number of items with them.
Contrasting with Chris and Jill's different abilities in the previous game, Leon and Claire differ only in their starting key items (a lighter and a lockpick , respectively). The game introduces a "Zapping System" where the two player characters are each confronted with differing puzzles, plot threads, and encounters. g. killed enemies, solved puzzles, and hazards caused by player actions.
This results in a total of four unique playthroughs, two for each character, which increases replayability. Each protagonist is joined by a support partner. These characters accompany the protagonist in certain scenes, and are playable during short segments. Like the previous game, there are multiple endings, but unlike the previous game, which ending the player sees is determined solely by which of the four scenarios is being played.
The graphics are composed of real-time generated polygonal characters and item models , superimposed over pre-rendered backgrounds that are viewed from fixed camera angles. After completing a scenario, the player is given a rank based on their playtime and the number of times they saved or used special healing items. Higher ranks may unlock additional weapons and costumes. Resident Evil 2 contains two standalone missions: "The 4th Survivor" and "The To-fu Survivor".
In both, the player must reach the goal while fighting every enemy along the way with only the default item loadout. The PlayStation version requires the player complete both scenarios with high ranks in order to unlock these missions, while the Dreamcast version has them accessible from the beginning. All later versions, excluding the Nintendo 64 version, have an additional "Extreme Battle" minigame, where the player, either as Leon, Claire, Ada or Chris Redfield from the first game, must plant four antivirus bombs around one of three maps while fighting through a gauntlet of enemies with limited supplies.
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Resident Evil 2 is a classic video game released for the PlayStation on January 1, 1998. Developed by Capcom and published by Capcom, this title has become a beloved entry in the retro gaming library.
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