Resident Evil 2: Dual Shock (Sony PlayStation 1, 1998)

Story

Resident Evil 2 follows the same gameplay mechanics as its predecessor. The game's graphics are composed of polygonal character models, and items superimposed over pre-rendered graphics, using fixed camera angles. The player must travel through a variety of locations, solving puzzles and fighting numerous mutated creatures in order to complete the game. The player can arm themselves with a variety of firearms, although ammunition is limited. The game features an improved graphics engine over the previous game, allowing for more zombies to appear on screen. In addition, the player can now determine their character's health based on their animation. A character in the 'caution' stage of injury will cover their stomach with his or her hand, while a character on the verge of death will limp. The game over screens are more gruesome this time, featuring the player's character being eaten by the creature that killed him or her.

Plot

The game begins on September 29, 1998, as the citizens of Raccoon City have been turned into zombies by a biological weapon known as the T-virus.[1]
Leon S. Kennedy, a police officer on his first day in the Raccoon Police Department, and Claire Redfield, a college student looking for her brother, enter the city. They fight their way to the police station. There they find Ada Wong and a little girl named Sherry Birkin.
They learn that Claire's brother, Chris Redfield, has gone to Europe to stop Umbrella's experiments. They escape the station through the sewers and find Annette Birkin, Sherry's mother. They learn that the viral outbreak was accidental, that her husband William Birkin has turned into a monster who plans to infect Sherry with the G-virus and that Ada is a spy. They fight their way to Umbrella's underground laboratory where the T- and G-viruses are being produced. On the way to the labs, William Birkin infects Sherry.
Claire continues into the laboratory to find the cure. Annette tries to kill Claire, thinking she wanted the G-virus, but is killed by her husband. As she dies, Annette tells Claire how to prepare the cure for Sherry. Leon and Ada face the T-103 and Ada apparently dies.
When the laboratory self-destruct is activated, Claire tells Leon to get Sherry and go to the train, which will take them out of the underground laboratory, while she prepares the cure. The three escape the self-destructing laboratory. Claire injects Sherry with the cure and Birkin reappears, now a massive blob as a result of the G-virus mutation, making one final attack. The self-destruct mechanism activates on the train, and they escape as the train explodes, killing Birkin.

Resident Evil 2 follows the same gameplay mechanics as its predecessor. The game's graphics are composed of polygonal character models, and items superimposed over pre-rendered graphics, using fixed camera angles. The player must travel through a variety of locations, solving puzzles and fighting numerous mutated creatures in order to complete the game. The player can arm themselves with a variety of firearms, although ammunition is limited. The game features an improved graphics engine over the previous game, allowing for more zombies to appear on screen. In addition, the player can now determine their character's health based on their animation. A character in the 'caution' stage of injury will cover their stomach with his or her hand, while a character on the verge of death will limp. The game over screens are more gruesome this time, featuring the player's character being eaten by the creature that killed him or her.

The main addition to the gameplay is a scenario system. Resident Evil 2 offers two playable characters, each with their own scenario. However, after finishing one character's scenario (the "A" game) and saving the data, a second scenario (the "B" game) is unlocked in which the same series of events are depicted from the other character's perspective. Actions taken by the player during the first scenario affects the player's surroundings during the second scenario. In addition, one's character also has access to one area in their B game that they normally would not have access to. There are two scenarios for each character.

The player is awarded with unlockable weapons and other bonuses after completing a scenario and fulfilling certain requirements. A ranking system has been implemented in which the player is graded based on the amount of time taken to complete the game, number of times the game was saved and the number of first-aid sprays used. Several hidden minigames can also be unlocked as well such as The 4th Survivor, its spoof/harder version The Tofu Survivor and in the DualShock Version, an Extreme Battle minigame.

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I played this game one it came out back in 1998 and to this day still love it . I say it was one of the best Resident evil games made . If you want one the only place to buy it is ebay make sure you get disc 1 witch is Leon and Disc 2 witch is Clair . I will tell anyone to buy the duel shock version do to the fact that the duel shock ver offers some great things like a rocket launcher with unlimited ammo a gatling gun with the same ammo and a sub machine gun with unlimited ammo also there very fun and make the game easier for the frist time player also there is a code to make all the guns have unlimited ammo witch is great . For the frist time players pick up Resident evil 1 , Resident evil 2 , And Resident evil 3 witch is also a great game for the PS1 they can all be played on the PS2 system i have been playing video games for the past 14 years and i rate this game on a scale of 1 to 10 must be a 10 . Buy this one you will love it. Harlan form Binkey2000 .

Resident Evil 2: Dual Shock Edition

Several months after the original release, a second version of Resident Evil 2 was released known as the DualShock Version. As the title suggests, the game was modified to incorporate support for the vibration function and analog control of the PlayStation DualShock controller. The main addition is a new unlockable minigame, Extreme Battle. The objective is to reach the police station from the underground laboratory and retrieve four anti-biohazard bombs located throughout the station. There are four playable characters and three difficulty settings. The Extreme Battle became a standard feature for subsequent versions of the game.

There are also some minor additions, such as ranking screens for the Hunk and Tofu minigames, a Rookie difficulty setting for the main game, as well as a "USA version" mode in the Japanese version, based on the North American version's default setting and a new cheat code that grants the player unlimited ammo for all weapons.

I already owned RE2 butt I heard about the extra battle game so I had to try it. KICK ASS!!!! An extra 9hrs of play if you take your time and go through every level & room. Last difficulty level is really hard, don't use your only save game until you are in the Police Dept. And there is a arrange mode! A+++++