This Page is devoted to Resident Evil 2, a game currently in development. It also offers the most information about RE2 on the web at this present time! If you have any info. on this game or contributions to make, please E-mail me! with your stuff!
This page was last updated on March 7th, 1997.
Hey people! This page has taken a bit longer to update than normal, hasn't it? Sorry about that! The truth of the matter is, is that I have been getting very little news sent to me of Capcom (dicks-but more about that later..) and I have been unable to find little in the way of news through magazines and internet news. But then one day, I stumbled upon something alarming......
I learnt that Capcom have adopting the Quake method of developing a game by giving the programmers no deadlines to finish the game, so Resident Evil 2 will be 'done when its done'.
The Resident Evil 2 engine is still meant to be the same, but there will be various alarming changes. These will be the following:
1. Your progress throughout the game with your first character will radically change the way in which the game is palyed for the second character. An example of this is that you finish the game using Elizia without finding any secrets, when you play as Leon, you would find the game easier, the complete opposite is obtained when you finish a game finding all the secrets in the game.
2. A lot more enmies have been added to the game to provide a game with both more depth and challenge. Many people had said that the weak point in Resident Evil was that once you had finished the game, that was it, you knew where all the bad guys would pop up from then on. Well it is rumoured that Capcom have developed a change in the program from when you finish the game, all enemies get randomly palced around the house (imagine playing walking into the dining room in Resident Evil to get a key and bumping into a Tyrant!).
3. Approximately 10+ weapons have been added to the game to give the players greater rewards throughout the game. Details on these weapons are shady, so i'll keep you informed on this.
Rumoured release dates for the game will probably be a month or two before christmas for the Americans, and if i'm lucky before the end of the year for the UK. Expect to see all those grinning Japanease people to have the game in mid-summer.
The good news is that Capcom plan to release a sequel to Resident evil, the imaginativelly titled 'Resident Evil 2' Here are some screen shots from the game:
As you can see from these screen shots, the action is far more hectic than it's predessecor. Many more zombies are now included on the same screen, making the player think and shoot faster. Capcom have claimed that the game is actually a massive one and a half times bigger than Resident evil.
As in Resident evil, there are two characters to choose from, each radically changing the toughness of the game. The action itself is set inside Racoon city's police department, and is staged after Chris and Jill return from the Resident evil mansion, zombies are found wandering the city's streets, and soon infect many of Racoon's citizens. The two characters avaible in RE2 are: Leon Kennedy a police recruit, and Eliza Walker, a university student who 'loves motorcycles'? Here are clips of the characters:
Obviously, this is Leon on the left, and Eliza on the right.
The clips below are of Eliza, and the action promises to be even more intense , with many more zombies on screen at once. To prevent slowdown, Capcom have made the amount of pollygons per character fewer, but the graphics seem even more detailed than before.
The zombies in RE2 have also been re-designed and now have much more intelligence than their 'friends' in Resident evil. The zombies move at a different speed every time, some walking towards you, others running at your character. Capcom have done this to keep the player on his guard at all times, as in Resident evil, many people took the zombies for granted.
Extra damage can now be inflicted on your enemies in RE2, for example if you shoot a zombie in the midsection with a shotgun, it will blow him in half, but the top half of the zombie continues towards you, shuffling along the ground.
A couple of extra screen shots here because all you people deserve it!
If the game is any where near the top standard of Resident Evil, or even better, we may have the best game for the Playstation and other consoles - ever! Suck it N64!
The game is expected to be released in Japan after Christmas, and, if the censors don't get their hands on it, over here in Britain, during April/June.
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This page was made by Daniel Harrison, December 1996
Please give this web address to all your mates who have web access, the stupid search engines may take up to four weeks to put htis page on their server, so I could do with a lot more people visiting the site. This would help my page not lagging behind in the Resident Evil 2 page race.
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