I love the way they lurch around and I’d venture a guess that the designers were heavily inspired by the tar man from Return of the Living Dead. The satisfyingly dismemberable zombies are the best-looking undead I’ve ever seen in a game and the juiciest. The horror heightening lighting effects and convincingly terrified facial animations are especially impressive.
But viewed side by side it’s apparent what an enormous improvement this remake is. So I got to experience it much as many of you playing for the first time will. 20 years is a long time, long enough that I’d forgotten nearly everything about Resident Evil 2, other than that I’d loved it back in the age of the first Playstation.
