Clearly that pressure wasn’t a factor as RE2 lives up not only to the original, but to the series’ pedigree as one of the best franchises in horror gaming. And with the specter of one of the best remakes of all time in the Gamecube REmake hanging over its head, the pressure was truly on. So with Resident Evil 2, the team had a lot of work ahead of them. Nobody wants to run around using tank controls and fixed cameras anymore. Lately, such as with 2017’s Resident Evil 7, Capcom has worked to merge the older style with more modern gameplay sensibilities. There’s the survival-horror classics, and the action-fests that followed RE4. The Resident Evil series is mostly broken up into two distinct eras.
