In Hong Kong, a 60-volume comic finished off the game's plot less than a quarter of the way through it's run, then went on to explore Leon and Claire's fight against "God," Umbrella Corp's former CEO who also happens to be a brain in a jar. Perry's City of the Dead, the game's official novelization, adds a new character named Trent who's behind, well, everything. Then you venture outside of video games, and that's where things get weird.
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles remakes Resident Evil 2 as a Wiimote-controlled on-rails shooter. Resident Evil: Uprising retells the Resident Evil 2 story on mobile phones, with a scaled-down 2D interface to match. The Nintendo 64 version of the game, for example, did away with the clunky tank controls, randomized item placement to keep later playthroughs fresh, and introduced the EX Files, which expanded on Resident Evil 2's lore. For the remake, Capcom scanned actual tofu to make sure that its squishy texture is as realistic as possible. Don't expect tofu to look the same this time around, though. "By the time we'd finished, though, Tofu had become very important to us." Capcom's Resident Evil 2 staff members decided to show their love by immortalizing him in the game. "We'd spent a couple of years using that character," Capcom's Jun Takeuchi tells EGM. It's a goof, but it's also really hard.īut still: why tofu? Well, as the story goes, the Resident Evil 2 team used a giant white block to test collisions. Race your way through the campaign a few more times, and you'll also be able to play through The 4th Survivor as a sentient block of tofu who's armed with a knife, a couple of herbs, and little else. In The 4th Survivor, you control HUNK, a silent and menacing Umbrella Corporation soldier. In the original version of Resident Evil 2, players could unlock a bonus mode called The 4th Survivor by completing both of the game's campaigns with an A ranking. If you're in the latter group, here's what the fuss is all about. Fool me twice, and it must be EGM's fault. Eventually, players proved that EGM-fueled fantasies of scorching zombies with hadoukens were dreams and nothing more, but the stunt did give rise to a popular saying: Fool me once, shame on me. Years later, EGM honored the Shen Long gag with an Akuma-themed sequel - and while you might've thought that fans would've learned their lesson, they fell for it again.Īccording to EGM, players could play as Akuma in Resident Evil 2 by beating the game's two campaigns six times with an A rank, relying solely on the handgun and combat knife, and then entering Akuma's name on Resident Evil 2's laboratory-based computer screen. Unfortunately, the Shen Long prank didn't end there.
#Resident evil 2 series#
Hoping to make good with fans who were burned by EGM's bogus report, Capcom introduced a hidden boss in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo named Akuma who, like Shen Long, dressed kind of like series mascot Ryu, and who used super-powered versions of Ryu and Ken's moves. Shen Long wasn't real, but he did make an actual contribution to Street Fighter lore. The end result isn't a perfectly accurate recreation of Resident Evil 1.5, but for a game that wasn't actually released? It's pretty darn good. Dialogue is extrapolated from pre-written plot points. Resident Evil 2 provides the template for boss fights. IGAS team members have to fill in the rest of the blanks themselves. The most successful effort so far comes from Team IGAS, which estimates that it has what it needs to accurately recreate about 95% of the game.
#Resident evil 2 code#
Over time, Resident Evil 1.5 prototypes leaked out. Using the unfinished builds as a base and filling in the gaps with screenshots, videos, old documentation, snippets of code found in Resident Evil 2 demos, and some unofficial "official" support from people at Capcom, fans are trying to rebuild Resident Evil 1.5 from the ground up. We were waiting it for 15 years." Others have taken a more productive approach. When Resident Evil 5 came out, players hacked the multiplayer leaderboards to send Capcom a message: "Release RE1dot5.
Some fans resorted to extreme measures to do so.