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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: July 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

All I have to say after reading the negative reviews about the RE2's graphics is, to quote Beetle Juice "You Bunch of Losers". Apparently you didn't read the instruction manual because the F7 key toggles the different resolutions, yeah albeit 640 x 480 is the highest it goes, but all you have to do is reduce your screen resolution to 800 x 600 and all is fine and dandy. Oh BTW, I managed to do all this with an 8mb video card.

Now on to the game, very tense at times with a few "jump out and scare ya's". I am a "B" movie fan and this game is all that except you get to be a part of the story, which is nice.

Pros, cons, zombies....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: July 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The "Resident Evil" games--and perhaps all games in the "survival horror" genre--are about atmosphere. And in that regard, "Resident Evil 2" delivers. The graphics won't wow a hardcore PC gamer, nor will the sound, although the music is effectively eerie. This game offers a some good shocks and good-if-stilted cutscenes, intermixed with some so-so action.

The minuses are serious but not show-stoppers. The graphics and sound effects show the limitations of the consoles they were designed for--no Quake III here, nor even Blood 2, for that matter. (Resident Evil 3 actually goes a good bit farther compensating for this by offering much higher resolutions.)

Saving a game can only be done at a typewriter, and only using a ribbon, of which there are a limited number. I guess that means that if you haven't played through the game by the time you used that last ribbon, you're going to have a =really= long last session. Save game limitations drive PC players nuts, and is compounded here.

The camera angles, while usually quite effective in the atmosphere, also make it, em, challenging, to see what you're doing about a third of the time when you're zombie slaying.

The only other major minus is the dubious pseudo-adventure game puzzles. Find this key, find that key, hook that wheel to that valve, etc. It's not as big a minus as it might seem, because sometimes these slow periods lull you into a false sense of security and set you up for the next good shock. Other times, they're just teidous.

Overall, this game has won me over with its spooky atmosphere and ocassional shocks, but I couldn't call it a classic, unfortunately, at least not this version.

Resident evil 2 on the PC!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: August 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best,it has all the best things and perfection graphics.I would most recommend this product to another person,even if you have the Play Station version...its better cause' it has battle mode.More extra things like a seperate side story and theres another object to accomplish.Not just killing zombies,but you would have to collect bombs before the building blows up.Buy it!NOW! You wont regret it and for 20 dollars...Dont miss out!

great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: May 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's easier than teh first one, but it has a better plot, and the fact you can play almost 4 different games... You'll never get bored of it... Try it... Capcom rules!

Do really good horror movies scare you?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Yes, but you know it's just a movie. Resident Evil is an interactive horror movie with cinematic sequences, an involved plot, and ugly monsters jumping out at you.

Leon Kennedy is a rookie cop, first day on the job. Claire Redfield is looking for her brother, Chris. Sherry is a little girl staying at the police station waiting for her parents, and Ada Wong is a mysterious woman with a hidden agenda. The four survivors of a city infected by a zombie virus are all under your control at some point, and you must get all four through a zombie-infested police station, and then through the sewers to the Unbrella plant which made the virus and has the cure.

The gameplay is very strange, although the string of clones following in its wake has brought the engine mainstream. In each area, there are stationary videocameras which you the player watch. The cameras automatically change as you move away from one and closer to another. The background never moves except during cutscenes. Basically, you're moving through photographs of the rooms you're in. The game limits how many items you can carry, and you can only save with an Ink Ribbon. There are a few laying around but many are hidden. When you are injured, your character limps....

It is my most favorite game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: February 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Actually speaking, I never find a more interesting game like this. It is not so difficult as the R.E1 but still you have to use your mind to find the solutions to the puzzles. What's more, the game consists of two stories and they take place at the same time. You must finish the first one before the second part. No other game has such features.

Not Unlike A sip of Soda after a desert...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: April 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...damn good but with just a little too much thickness to go down right.

Resident Evil 2 is a console game. Its' move to PC is...questionable. But while it may not be the next generation of gaming goodness, it allows all the PC owners of the world a chance to immerse themselves in one of the greatest console games of all time.

RE 2 is the second and perhaps most epic of the RE games. Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield are likeable and active charactors who, with time and...well...more time, will grow on you. The cast of secondary charactors and monsters are both creepy and delightful. Best of all, the weapons are good enough to make Duke Nukem drool a little. Pack this into a survival horror package, where one must carefully husband ammo and always be prepared and you have a game with a perfect mix of tension and action.

But it is not a computer game. To make that tension thick the designers chose to create save points and sometimes painful camera angles. It is too easy to run through the game if you can save just before every door. Instead, you'll fling the controller across the room because you got jumped by a zombie dog and hashed to shreds, leaving you farther back in the game. It just makes keeping alive a little more important (as a note, though the "print cartriges" required to save seem scarce, they are really almost too common)

Others may come to hate the limited space one has to carry items. Any good first person shooter allows a much larger range of munitions and keys to hold at once. In RE 2, you get about 8 slots. That means if you carry the beloved pistol for zombie shooting, its ammo, and the life saving shotgun for anything else (with its ammo) you have 4 slots to carry any health, keys, or back-up weaponry you want or find. Trust me, its really scary to bring a knife to a gun fight, or a pistol to a rocket fight. Much of the puzzle system runs along these lines. Some require you to place 4 or more pieces into a key hole. But you can't just find them and take them there, you have to carry other things. This means you will have to find them, place them in the item box ( a magical, multi-locational box that will hold everything you own and be reached in many places) then go find the others before finally gathering them all and opening the puzzle. Sound tedious? Strangley the game manages to keep you plenty busy in between so it never really becomes too much of a problem.

As for the bad camera angles, they had to stay in the game. To build in a moving camera would have destroyed the game. I tell you now, there is something creepy about hearing the patter of zombie feet, know they are out there, and just not know where they are. If not for the useable, venerable auto-aim function, I too would have screamed every time I ran headlong into the arms of a zombie. As it is...The unseen Giant spider is my personal bane.

So in conclusion, at 20 dollars, you are buying a game beloved by Play Station and Dreamcat owners the world across. But it will drive the hardcore PC player insane. But even if this hypothetical PC owner can somehow make his way past the glareing downfalls of this game, he will enter the World of Resident Evil, a land where the dead walk and bullets are scarce.

Overkill? No. Just enough kill.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Did you ever watch, say, FRIDAY THE 13th and wish that somebody had packed a MAC-10 in with their camping equipment? Or that Laurie Strode had a Mossberg 12 gauge handy when Michael Myers knocked on her door in HALLOWEEN? Did you ever think to yourself what you could do to Leatherface with a rocket launcher? ("Isn't that just like a cannibal; brings a chansaw to a bazooka fight") Did you ever wonder how you would behave if your survival was on the line and say, oh, flesh-eating zombies or irradiated mutant beasts were looking to chow down on you? Well, thanks to the sheer genius of RESIDENT EVIL 2, you no longer have to wish and wonder what it would be like to live out a horror movie. You're stuck right in the middle of one.

All RESIDENT EVILs basically proceed from the same premise: the evil Umbrella Corporation has developed a virus which mutates animals into horrid killing machines. Because Umbrella is so darn curious about its new toy, the virus keeps "accidentally" getting loose, turning ordinary pets into monsters and people into ravening zombies. In the first entry, the virus was released in a small environs of a lab-mansion on the outskirts of Racoon City; this time, however, the germs have escaped into the city itself, turning it into a apocalyptic wasteland populated by lab projects gone wrong and....you.

RE 2 has a fascinating two-disc set up. In the first disc, you play Officer Leon Kennedy, one of the few survivors of the RCPD, who has a really bad first day on the job. Leon's adventure takes him from the streets of the burning city to the police station, and from there through the spider-infested sewers to Umbrella's massive underground labs. Along the way Leon must solve numerous puzzles, obtain various keys and weapons, and blast or outrun a wide variety of drooling baddies that want to eat him. (He also encounters sultry Ada Wong, a playable character with a hidden agenda.)

In the second disc, you are at the wheel of spunky civvie Claire Redfield, who like her brother Chris (survivor of the first game) has a talent for blasting zombie brains all over the place. Although Claire stomps much of the same ground as Leon and not occasionally bumps into him, her tasks are different and her options effected to some degree by the choices Leon has made in the first half of the story. As if Claire doesn't have enough problems, she must also look after a kid named Sherry, who turns out to be the game's other playable character -- one too small to carry a gun! (I'd like to let the zombies have her, but....)

In addition to the regular storyline, there are some alternative options including "Extreme Battle Mode", which removes the plot elements and just lets you kill away, and a few bennies which can only be obtained by meeting certain standards, and which allow you to add new weapons and change your character's getups.

It would be easy to dismiss RE as just another shoot-'em-up, but it has a number of features which made it unique for its day. Firstly, the game is presented in the third rather than first person, so that you feel as if you are watching a movie (this makes the game more difficult for newcomers to play, but also more like a horror flick). Second, the atmospherics of the game, its creepy music and haunting sound effects (wind, dripping water, creaking doors, etc.) truly create that horror-movie feel. Third, because the events of the two disks are dependent on each other, the game never plays exactly the same way twice; this is particularly true if you reverse the order and play Claire's mission first. Fourth, the various puzzles which present themselves make the game a challenge for the noggin as well as the trigger finger.

What really grabs me about the RE series, however, is not the wide variety of monsters or the action per se, but the storyline. The game begins with and is occasionally interrupted with movie sequences which explain some of the backstory, which heightens the feel of having been thrown face-first into a cerebral splatter film. It is an "interactive" experience in the truest sense. All that's missing is zombie brains on your shoes.

I realize RE 2 is now very much dated, but I couldn't care less. A game either plays well or it doesn't, and if it does, it plays well in all seasons. In the RE series Capcom didn't just create a monster, they handed you a chaingun and said, "Kill it."

The best suspense game ever (for other platforms)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Resident Evil 2 (RE2) can easily be the best game of the series, with the multiple endings and new extra content. The PC version is as good as the console version (playstation), including the graphics
(MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU GET THE PC VERSION, READ THE MANUAL, TOGGLE RESOLUTION TO 640/480 OR YOU WILL BE STUCK WITH BLOCKY GRAPHICS).
Each time you finish the game, you unlock new areas to explore, new enemies, weapons, game modes, you get to play as different characters, and the ending changes.
In my opinion this is the best RE game in the series. RE4 is very good but very different. Code VERONICA is also very good, bringing totally 3-D scenarios into the game, but a somewhat lame story.
I will recomend people to get the Dreamcast version of Resident Evil 2, but the PC version is a good one if you can't find a dreamcast or if you just want to "taste" the game.

So great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

when i first played this game i played it on the playstation version. It was so delightful because my friends and I would gather to my place, close all the lights and played to death. I remember that we were afraid at all times..haha. The remote would just pop out of the players hands everytime sth scary would happen, a zombie would come out, sth else that looked like zombie would come down the ceiling. But in my opinion resident evil 1 was even greater! it ruled! it has a history in my life. Now every summer since we first played the first one we spend it playing the others. I'm anxious in seeing the third.

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