Thursday 9 October 2008

RESIDENT EVIL 2

One of my all time favorite games, the best Resident Evil game since the beginning of making this series with Code Veronica on the same level with it.

I have 3 versions of it:
1. PS1 version: This is the only one I didn't download, and it's the only good one
2. N64 version: I have this game on emulator, the problems are that I must reset the emulator so the picture would be more than just half the screen, the movies are available in sound only, the sounds get scratchy within the game, and when the volume goes mute this means when the camera angle will move the game will get jammed
3. The PC version: It works perfectly fine as long as you don't save in it, when I save the save file immediately gets broken and the game shuts down forcing me to install it once more so I can't play game B and meet Mr.X (I already said I downloaded the PC version)
Thinking more about the two scenario's: A & B, and the relativity of them to the characters I find it more passable to believe senario A happens for Claire and Scenario B happens to Leon, the more I play the bigger sense I find in my thought.

Leon A & Claire B:
1. Sherry gets lost from Claire but isn't found by her father to bed the embrio in his kid
2. Annete tells a spy on the company the origin of the monster hunting the sewers and how her husband worked on the monsters engine
3. When Claire goes to the telefrik Leon used it doesn't have holes in it, Claires go after Leon departures using it and Mr. Birkin pierces the top of it
4. Claire leaves Sherry in the elevator to Umbrella alone when the monster might strike at her (Sherry) when she's alone
5. Ada falls a pretty high distance then shows up to hand Claire a rocket launcher (she lives, finds a rocket launcher and hands it to a stranger?)

Claire A & Leon B:
1. In the first cutscene Leon is on the side of the car closer to the police station
2. It is Claire who actually finds Mr. Kendo since he was supposed to help her counterpart in the cancelled version of the game (Marvin I can understand meeting Claire though he was meant to help Leon in the cancelled version)
3. It makes more sense to see Brian Irons fed with the embrio before exposing his true self to Claire
4. Still don't get it, but telling someone who is trying to save your kid from her father the reason why the father is hunting her down is more reasonable than telling the enemy.
5. Ada still gets fatally injured but survives, at least it makes more sense to her giving Leon the R.Launcher and meeting him later in "Resident Evil 4"

The game is very well balanced between monsters and puzzles.
I love the arrange mode (In scenario A you only need the R.Launcher twice when fighting William Birkin, in scenario B there is a heavier need for the rocket launcher)
I used to look at the game with 'uggh' at first, but it grew on me more than the current art style of "John Romita jr". This game was and still is a perfect 5 stars game.
Wonder how the remake for the "Nintendo Wii" is going to be like, sure it will have better graphics but will it stay great?

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