Just as RE7 is a tribute to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Resident Evil 2 powerfully recreates the appeal of zombie movies. And it's more than graphical there's an aesthetic vocabulary at work that wasn't available to the series' early entries. But just because RE2 isn't some sort of graphical paragon doesn't make the flickering-lit hallways, rainy catwalks and oozing sewers any less scary. Using the RE Engine, which Capcom built for RE7, the new RE2 doesn't quite pack the graphical shock of the Gamecube remake of the original Resident Evil -the first RE game to get away from the more colorful, almost manga-y palette found through Code Veronica and settle the series near-permanently in realms of dust, faded wallpaper and burlap.
The graphical overhaul can't be praised enough. Resident Evil 2 stands out thanks to its incomparable atmosphere. Yep, definitely a remake of an older game. It's vintage Resident Evil, in other words.
Herb combos and tedious inventory management still take up as much time as monsters. But it's in some ways a new gloss on an old form, with gameplay defined by the same cascade of tasks that have been with the series from the beginning: navigating a confined area, finding items, unlocking doors, securing medallions to move statues to reveal hidden stairs and so on. The remake is astonishingly well-balanced, doling out just enough ammo that I always felt pinched, but never deprived. The focus is on accurate gunplay, a necessity when it can take 3-5 headshots to put down a zombie.
The Resident Evil 2 remake switches from the pre-rendered environments and static camera angles of the original to a third-person shooter pose, the camera locked just over Leon or Claire's shoulder.
But for as different as the Resident Evil 2 remake is from Resident Evil 2, it can still feel hemmed in by the limits of the 1998 original. Many items and puzzles are different enough that guides and walkthroughs to the original Resident Evil 2 are pretty much useless. In its particulars, Resident Evil 2 is a fully new game.
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