The plot of Resident Evil 2 is identical to the original game, though individual events occasionally happen in different ways and the characterization has been modified. It’s a game that feels like it used Resident Evil 7 as its framework - RE2 for a new generation - and all without losing the essence of Leon and Claire’s original journey. Its zombie-infested Raccoon City is among the creepiest settings ever seen in the medium, successfully building on classic Romero-era tropes with its own lore, twists, and terrifying monsters.Ģ0 years later, instead of slapping on a new coat of paint and tweaking the controls, Capcom has completely remade Resident Evil 2 from the ground up. Resident Evil 2 is considered a classic survival-horror game for a reason. While there’s a certain tension to that-it’s also a game designed for one thing and used for another. In regards to Dino Crisis 2, they keep the same predetermined camera moving between locations but expect you to be able to focus in on five raptors that charge the screen all at once. The strangest thing about the evolution of survival-horror games is how they enact certain changes but disregard others. While it’s not necessarily a problem for the evolution of different series, it’s just interesting how often it happens. Even Resident Evil has had bouts of action before its recent survival-horror resurgence in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
From an engineer in the original Dead Space using mining equipment to a full-fledged soldier rendition of the character in Dead Space 3 is like playing two totally different series-the same can be said for the transition of Bioshock to Bioshock 2, where you go from running from ‘Big Daddy’s’ to becoming one. Looking back to movies like Alien as survival-horror to Aliens as an action-packed sequel-that methodology moves to games extremely often. Even though most of the fans at the time asked for a more action-packed sequel, a departure from the Resident Evil roots, it’s strange how prevalent that occurrence is. While Dino Crisis 2 is in no way a bad game, sporting some amazing visuals for the time and non-stop action with varied set-pieces including tropical forests, active volcanos, and an underwater level-it simply is nothing like its predecessor. Armed with a shotgun, nearly unlimited ammo, and combos garnered from killing dinosaurs to collect the currency known as extinction points-Dino Crisis 2 really wants you to solve the crisis rather that run from it. However, while dinosaurs in the last game were hinted at and Regina was ill-equipped to handle them (having to run from most encounters)-this game is a different beast entirely. Set in the year 2010, ten years after the game was actually released, Dino Crisis 2 sees our two lead protagonists of Regina and Dylan on a mission to save Edward City, having been overrun by dinosaurs from the unsafe opening of a time portal in the previous entry.
While comparing this game to Jurassic Park is merely surface level-it’s also near impossible to avoid the film franchise’s inspiration on most anything dinosaur-related in modern times. However, as it branches toward a bullet-riddled shoot-em-up, while keeping the same characters of Regina and the now moved to the spotlight, Dylan-does the game lose some of its original appeal? Jurassic Park with Guns With Capcom cashing in on the success of the original game and straying from its Resident Evil roots, Dino Crisis 2 brings a ton of dinosaur-shooting action to its survival-horror predecessor.
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