Nate Shubin

This remake is fantastic. I was 12 when RE came out in 96’ and I was there at the midnight release of RE2 when I was in junior high. There is no other franchise anywhere that I’ve dumped more hours into, and the changes they’ve made are incredible. If you are a fan of the original and don’t respond well to realistic changes, this version is gonna ruffle those sensitive feathers of yours. No more molasses slow, predictable shuffling corpses here with zero physics animations or reactions. These zombies drunk stagger around erratically, making their movements difficult to predict. They react to getting hit, they lunge at a greater distance. When they fall there is no comforting pool of blood to know they’re REALLY dead this time. They don’t always get up right away, some might not get up for thirty seconds or so. The camera is set behind your character, not isolated in a specific spot on the wall. You have to free aim, and the enemies physically show the wounds they’ve received. Everything that was really distracting from immersion in the first iteration of these titles has been addressed. It’s poetry.