Resident Evil 2

Resident Evil 2 is the first survival horror game in a three dimensional perspective view that I played on the Playstation one console. As usual, I saw this game being played by most players in most Playstation gaming centers during that time. I bought my copy of this game at Metropolis Mall in Alabang. I was really excited to buy this game but when I tried to play it, I eventually became irritated and confused about the controls because I am used to controlling a character in a game doing the move I expect it to move just like a mouse pointer on the personal computer. I ended up rotating the character when I try to have him move to the left by pressing the left arrow button on the controller and vice versa. And when I tried pressing up or down button the character will move upward endlessly on his point of view and not the player’s point of view. Playing this game requires you to control the character by thinking you are the character, hence pressing the up button is the forward command for the character in the game and down button is for the backward command, the left and right buttons are commands to get the character to rotate to his left and right respectively. You got to think like you are the character. This tip is very useful in the all throughout navigation in the entire game.

Resident Evil 2’s story is a continuation of where Resident Evil 1 story left off. A team of high elite group called STARS or Special Tactics and Rescue Squad was sent to investigate a mysterious mansion on the outskirts of Raccoon City. And they found out that it was a secret passageway leading to the Umbrella Laboratory below Raccoon City. This corporation is experimenting on bio chemical weapons and viral weapons. One of these was a virus known as the T-virus. Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine managed to escape the mansion and laboratory, turning the self destruct button on, and that ultimately abolished the T-virus along with the mansion and laboratory. But as they went home to report the incident, nobody believed them, so the case against the Umbrella Corporation was dismissed.

A few months passed by, another virus was accidentally released known as the G-virus. This virus was invented by a certain scientist known as Dr. William Birkin. Umbrella tried to steal the G-virus from him and during the process Dr. Birkin was shot a number of times by the mercenaries that Umbrella hired to get the virus. Dr. Birkin injected himself with the G-virus and he became an inhuman creature with increased strength and agility. Then he killed all the mercenaries and the virus they were carrying was spilled on the sewer floors and eventually some rats ate the spilled content from the virus container, which they then released throughout all of Raccoon City. The city was immediately thrown into full chaos and then the ones who were bitten by the rats died and became a zombie. These zombies and other creatures began to eat people throughout the city, spreading the virus even more.

Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield are the protagonists in this game. They met when they arrived the night this incident began. Leon is a rookie cop that supposedly would have start his first day on the job, that same dreadful day of the incident and Claire is the sister of Chris Redfield from Resident Evil 1, she went to Raccoon City to find her brother.
When an accident occurred in the car that Leon and Claire were riding, they got separated by a flaming gas tanker that almost hit them and they decided to meet at the police station where they thought it was safer than anywhere in Raccoon City. They eventually found out that this leads to another Umbrella Laboratory and they have found a train that they use to escape that nightmare.

On this game, you will face a lot of zombies and powerful bosses. I recommend playing it safe by always having a healing item in your inventory all the time. I really enjoyed this game and played it an uncountable number of times already. This game is divided into two discs, one for Leon and one for Claire. The story can be played using either Leon or Claire first. The first character you play will start a game called Scenario A. This scenario ends with the train pulling off from the station and that’s it. After the ending credits, you get the chance to save your game and start again from the other character you didn’t chose to play Scenario A. The second character that will play from your last load from your last save will have to play Scenario B. This scenario will end with the true ending of this entire game. For example if you play Leon first, the scenario he is going to play is Scenario A. And after you save it and load it again, you get the chance to play using Claire for Scenario B. The same goes if you chose to play Claire the first time and play Leon the second time.

This is a very good game and guaranteed to keep you screaming and shouting the first time you play this game. Thank you, Capcom for introducing this game to the market. I recommend this for everyone who loves survival horror and action game with puzzles and a great graphical storyline.