History VideoGame / ResidentEvil2Remake

On March 2, 2022, it was announced that the game would be brought to the Platform/PlayStation5 and Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS, with existing owners of previous generation versions eligible to upgrade for free. The PC version would be updated as well to take advantage of newer graphics hardware. The new versions and the PC update were released on June 13, 2022. A UsefulNotes/CloudGaming version for the Platform/NintendoSwitch was announced in a Nintendo Direct on September 13, 2022.

** The zombie dogs too. In most of the series, short of a lucky head shot, they take several rounds of handgun ammo, and can on occasion take more than one shotgun blast. Here, they can go down in as little as two shots from a handgun. It's not unusual for Leon to kill the majority he runs into with a single burst from his upgraded Matillda.

** If one were to be attempting to get an S+ rank on [[NintendoHard Hardcore mode]], using the Infinite Knife or any of the pre-order DLC Samurai Edge handguns won't lower your score to a normal S, making it easier to get by in the first section of the game.

* GameFavoredGender: Unlike the original game which was clearly scaled towards Leon, the remake takes the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRemake RE1 Remake's]] approach of balancing towards both characters:

* GameFavoredGender: Done differently here:

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The classic games gradually downplayed the zombie threats by having a somewhat consistent amount of damage take them down, basic AI that could be kited and never went beyond single rooms without a scripted sequence, on top of always hearing if zombies were in a room. This time around, a single zombie can take ''way'' more headshots than you might expect, and even a shotgun may not consistently kill them, as well as the zombies being more of a threat and able to break into rooms and even potentially sneak up on you if you're not paying attention. Now it makes sense why everyone in the cutscenes can't handle them efficiently and why the RPD couldn't contain the threat and got overwhelmed so easily - these things were too inconsistently durable to kill with limited ammo and too persistent to keep away, and now the player gets to [[ThisIsGonnaSuck survive this firsthand]].

* DeadFootLeadfoot: The truck driver succubus to his wounds behind the wheel of his big rig. The truck then keeps going until it crashes.

* DeadFootLeadfoot: The truck driver dies behind the wheel of his big rig. The truck then keeps going until it crashes.

''Resident Evil 2'' (''Biohazard RE:2'' in Japan) is a SurvivalHorror game by Creator/{{Capcom}}. It was released for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 4}}, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and PC on January 25, 2019.

On March 2, 2022, it was announced that the game would be brought to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, with existing owners of previous generation versions eligible to upgrade for free. The PC version would be updated as well to take advantage of newer graphics hardware. The new versions and the PC update were released on June 13, 2022. A UsefulNotes/CloudGaming version for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch was announced in a Nintendo Direct on September 13, 2022.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the original game, [[spoiler:Robert is eaten alive by a throng of zombies that break through his store's windows. In the remake, he commits suicide off-screen after [[spoiler:being forced to kill his infected daughter]]]]. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]].

* LeetLingo: The license plates on Leon's and Claire's vehicles read "[[Film/LeonTheProfessional M4T-ILD4]]" ("Matilda") and "[=MD3-IN-H3VN=]" ("Made in Heaven"), respectively.

* YourHeadASplode: After running from it for a bit, the alligator ends up stuck chewing on a gas line. Shooting the pipe blows off its head, killing the thing.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Not that they were unattractive in the first place, but [[https://forums.thefashionspot.com/threads/eduard-badaluta.346719/ Leon]] and [[https://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/jordan_mcewen/photos/ Claire]]'s respective likenesses were 3D scanned from [[https://www.gamesradar.com/meet-the-real-faces-behind-resident-evil-2-remakes-leon-clair-and-marvin/ two professional fashion models]].

* ApocalypticLog: In keeping with the series tradition, the environment is littered with the frantic scribbles of victims. Some of them are even scarier than the infamous Keeper's Diary from the original ''Resident Evil'':
-->''helq''
-->''theyre komming''
-->''helq me mommy''

* InterfaceScrew: Being poisoned does far more than deal steady damage. Your character will randomly have a coughing fit, during which they slow down to less than their movement speed when their health is in the red, and they cannot attack by any means. Poisoning also makes it ''extremely'' difficult to aim.

* ShowsDamage: Due to the more advanced game engine, heroes and enemies alike show damage more clearly than they did in the original. Leon and Claire's wounds actually appear on their character models, they scar/close after using a healing item, and their clothes get bloody from them. Zombies in particular can get nasty, with each round put into them taking chunks out. You can even get zombies with about half their head left still walking around if you try to put enough handgun rounds into them or don't get a direct shot with the shotgun.

-->[[spoiler:'''Ada:''']] I really hoped it wouldn't end like this.
-->'''Leon''': So that's all this was... I was just some pawn to you?

* WhatTheHellHero: Kendo does not mince his words as he chews out Leon, blaming both him and the RPD for failing to protect Raccoon City from the zombie outbreak.

* ForWantOfANail: Each character's story begins with a film reel showing the "nail" that might have saved them in the main canon: a knife within reach, a radio call precious seconds early, a zombie shot instead of arrested...

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* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Looking at the Matilda's extended magazine makes it unclear just how it's supposed to stay in the pistol. The VP-70 it's based on has a European style [[https://chuckhawks.com/heel_clip_mag_release.html heel-mounted magazine release]] (which in the game can be seen inexplicably attached to the base of the extended mag), but even assuming the "Matilda" is fictionalized to have a button-press release, there are also no cutouts anywhere on the body for a magazine catch to lock into.

* RealismInducedHorror: The segment in Claire's story where you play as Sherry, a helpless and unarmed child, hiding from DirtyCop and child-predator Chief Irons in the shadows of an abandoned orphanage, is arguably ''the'' single most chilling 3 minutes in the saga. Lacking ''any'' of the slimy claws, fangs and superpowers of the ''other'' monsters of ''Resident Evil'', Irons is terrifying because he is a threat all too ''real'' and sadly common in ''our'' world.

* CameraScrew: When Leon is escaping from the giant SewerGator, he is running towards the camera, and you cannot change the camera angle.