Resident Evil 2 review – genre-defining horror, loaded with dread

Capcom’s survival horror classic returns with improved visuals, new controls and a whole host of monstrous surprisesLet’s get this out of the way: Resident Evil 2 is the best game in Capcom’s long-running survival horror series and possibly the greatest example of the genre ever produced. Released in 1998, two years after the agenda-setting Resident Evil, it introduced the iconic characters Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield and Ada Wong. It had wonderfully horrible monsters (the to