So You Made it this far(A look at Resident Evil 2 pt.1)

Going on from my first post about Resident Evil 1, i'm gonna go through what alot of people consider their favourite RE game (pre RE4). main write-up will be Claire A, Leon B scenario for this due to the zapping system they went for on this game, but i'll write down a few of the differenes in here. I'll be cutting this into 2 parts due to the large amount of things i felt needed writing about.

Resident Evil 1 post

Warning: Could be a Long Post

Resident Evil 2

The story of this game takes place 2 months after the events of the first game. We're introduced to a girl on a bike riding towards Raccoon City and a police officer. These are the main characters Claire Redfield and Leon.S.Kennedy. They both start off with character differences as RE 1 did, but it's more forgiving as Leon starts off with 8 slots for inventory just as Claire, and Leon gets a better handgun for the start. Leon for reasons unknown has a lighter as his key item while Claire has the lockpick ( the Lockpick is eventually explained as being part of Claire's criminal past but Leon doesn't smoke, or atleast they never hint that he ever did..guess he just likes Zippos...or he's a pyromaniac). in an Joint scenario FMV(each disc shows that person's point of view until they bump into each other) Claire and Leon meet up and go cruisin' in his Squad car, where Claire explains that she is looking for her brother Chris and Leon says this is his first day on the force. he then hands Claire a handgun out of his dashboard for protection, and all of a sudden a Zombie appears out of the backseat and tries to bite Leon. They end up crashing into a lightpost and the zombie goes flying through the windshield (always wear seatbelts!). A truck driver earlier in the FMV bitten by a zombie has been zombified and is going to crash into the car. Leon and Claire both get out the car and get separated by the explosion onto different ends of the street, blocked off from one-another by the debris. They both try to rendevous the police station. This is where the game really starts.

Claire A

Claire runs past several zombies into a back alley leading into Kendo's Gunshop, where one of my all-time favourite scenes takes place (there's no decent video of it i could find on youtube, but if you've played it Claire A scenario and talking to him after the inital scene, you know what i mean). if you stick around the shop for a while, you get to see a mob of zombies break through the shop window and devour Kendo (you can fight or avoid the zombies and grab Kendo's Bowgun, in Leon A it's a shotgun). After that you head for the police station along the way meeting Brad Vicker's zombiefied form (how he died will be explained in RE3). In the police station you meet a

black officer (Marvin Branagh) who tells you what happend to S.T.A.R.S after RE 1. He gives you a keycard and then after you leave the room he locks it behind you. The first hallway you walk through introduces you to the Licker( a Zombie who has been exposed to a secondary mutation of T-virus, and is basically turned inside out with large talon-claws) after killing it by shooting it enough times, Claire makes her merry away around the police station some more finding various room including the S.T.A.R.S office where she finds some info about her brother and grabs a Grenade Launcher in the Gun Cabinet(for Leon A, he finds another shotgun in case you didn't get one earlier from Kendo's corpse). Then after puzzle solving galore you meet Sherry Birkin, who promtly runs away and you bump into Leon, who tells Claire that she ''just missed her''(hey, little kids running around zombified police stations is pretty normal apparentaly). In a memorable moment in the game Claire stops by an interrogation room to find an emblem for a puzzle she'll need to solve, as Claire turns around and starts walking out, a licker jumps out of the other side of the glass and suprises her. Claire along the way then needs to find some C4 and a detonator since a helicopter has crashed in the station and is blocking her from progressing further. After she finds both items, she plants the C4, runs around the corner and blows the chopper up. Then Claire finds herself in the chief of police's office and sees a dead girl in a white dress laid out on the desk, as she gets closer, the desk chair spins around to reveal Chief Brian Irons. He tells Claire that the woman is the Mayor's daughter and he was supposed to look out for her. He talks about how she was infected and he had to kill her. Claire then goes through a door leading from the chief's office into a taxidermy room, where she meets Sherry again and gets Sherry to trust her... and then she dissapears again and Claire goes back through the chief's office discovering it's empty and he apparentaly left a diary behind which describes his ''hunt'' for the Mayor's daughter and wanting to use her as a stuffed trophy. Claire now runs around the police station climbing down a manhole cover into the sewers where you take control of Sherry and you play a small segment as her to get Claire another one of those keys to open those darn locked house of card doors. After

helping Claire by throwing her the key through a shaft or hole or something, Sherry separates from Claire to find a way out. Claire now heads to the basement of the Police station where she solves a puzzle in order to turn on a card reader and then goes into the Morgue where she finds a keycard and then she gets ambushed by a large amount of zombies. Heading out the room she can now enter the weapons room, which has some extra ammunition along with either a side pack or SMG(the side pack gives 2 extra slots, and the SMG is a pretty useful weapon which has a good supply of ammo, but once it runs out it's useless). You can only choose 1 of the items and leave the second one for the B scenario character (Leon in this case). Claire took the SMG for now since Leon will probably need the side pack more. You then finish finding some key puzzle items and go to Chief Iron's room, where you meet Sherry again, after solving a puzzle in the room, you find a secret passageway and will have to escort Sherry for a while(you can let her stay in the office for now incase you want to clear the place first). As you go down, you meet a G-virus embryo( the G-virus outbreak will be explained in a later scene) that has grown to human size and will have to fight it(pretty easy fight with the Grenade Launcher or SMG). You reach a weird torture room where Irons holds you at gunpoint and discusses how Umbrella's bribed him to keep S.T.A.R.S from going public about the entire Spencer Mansion incident (Resident Evil 1). He then starts acting weird until his body in literally torn in two. You then go down a ladder into the Raccoon City Sewers where Sherry gets sucked away and falls down a water drain, where you'll have to do another Sherry mission. After Sherry finds her way through the sewers she's knocked unconcious and a Mutated William Birkin walks towards her (yet again something that will be explained later). Back in control of Claire, she heads towards

where Sherry is, along the way being attacked by Giant venomous spiders. She meets Annette Birkin, who explains to Claire what's been going on(Umbrella wanted to take William Birkin's G-virus away from him, and in a spur of the moment scene, open fire on him. The dying Birkin knocks over some T-virus samples and then injects himself with the G-Virus, becoming a monster and hunting down the mercs who came after him, while some rats lick the T-virus samples and spread it through the city sewers.) and explains that due to the G-virus infecting Birkin's mind, in an act of self-preservation he was looking for Sherry to impregnate her with the G-virus aswell(incest basically). Annette then agrees to help find her daughter and then leaves. Claire then meets a giant alligator along her way(how it got there is a mystery, but i guess that urban myth about flushing them down the toilet is true) who she can either fight normally or spring a Jaws-inspired trap for ol' Snapper. Claire then finds Sherry, who's been infected, and they then find a Tram and board it. While the Tram starts heading downwards, William Birkin(who's mutated further due to the G-Virus' nature) jumps on the platform and Claire fights him off. Claire then discovers they are in an Umbrella Lab facility and decides to find a way to save Sherry. As she looks for clues around the place, she manages to contact Leon and inform him of her plan. She then meets Annette again who then gets mauled by William, but before dieing tells Claire how to make a G-Virus Vaccine. Claire fights off a ridiculously easy moth boss fight(the hardest part about this fight, not wasting space on the handgun or shitty knife to clear away the maggots on the desk with the computer), makes the vaccine and then fights william birkin's 4th mutation(K-9 form). I fought and killed him in this fight, but apparentaly you can just wait for the elevator to come down. Then you see a Finishing FMV showing her and Leon making a break for it escaping the facility before it self-destructs(i forgot to mention that it self-destructs because....Why NOT?!). We then get treated to an FMV and end out on credits with a fantastic rock song.

I'll be making Part 2 soon, following Leon B and putting a close on the 2nd game in the saga. Drop me some comments, some feedback(Did you like it, not like it,Too long, too short, too many images, not enough images, left out stuff you wanted me to talk about, too much rock ending theme?..anything really).

Resident Evil 2

Claire A

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