This revelation hit me as I ascended the police station stairs and saw a gray-skinned police officer slumped against the wall. They’ll happily wait for a character to deliver their grand speech before springing to life and sinking their teeth into a juicy ankle.īut in Resident Evil 2, while they’re more than happy to wait for you, you sure as hell don’t have to wait for them. Brainless as zombies technically are, they’re inhumanly patient and have an eerie sense of dramatic timing. Sure, this survival horror’s opening section offers few surprises, but once you pass the “I’m half the cop I used to be” scene, you start being able to claw back some degree of control. However, the joy of the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake is that not only does it let you sidestep some of that genre guff, but it gives you the satisfaction of throwing it back in the zombies’ stupid, flesh-eating faces. There’s no shortage of idiocy in horror, from researchers reading out dusty, skin-bound tomes to college students splitting up to investigate a noise.
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