It was something I never knew I wanted, but now had to have. This game seemed like an interactive version of one of those. But, throughout high school and college I had been a big fan of George Romero's socially conscious horror films of the '60s, '70s and '80s. At the time, it was revelatory.ДЄside from a few PC games on my ancient 1990s laptop, I hadn't played many video games since NHL '94 on the Sega Genesis, or owned a console since the original NES. Note that this was not the now-famous live-action commercial directed by zombie film auteur George Romero (which never aired in the US), but a choppier pastiche of gameplay and footage of cheap-looking Halloween store zombies. After stints as a commercial radio DJ and at a short-lived glossy lifestyle magazine, I ended up as a lowly assistant editor at a trade magazine (a very niche publication for a specific industry) called Beverage World. Way back in a crazy time we called the late '90s, I was not writing (or even thinking much) about technology. It's not an exaggeration to say that I owe nearly my entire career (at least the post-1998 parts of it) to the original version of Resident Evil 2.

I've been waiting for the just-released remake/re-imagining more so than any other 2019 video game for one very simple reason. With amazing (for the time) cinematic prerendered intro scenes, a mix of puzzles, exploration and action, and some genuine jump scares, it became a critical and commercial hit, despite predating our current era of zombie-filled apocalyptic chic by many years. One such case from the interactive entertainment category is Resident Evil 2, a 1998 Japanese import for the original PlayStation console.

For every Bride of Frankenstein or The Godfather Part II, there are a thousand Ghostbusters 2 or The Matrix Reloaded examples. It's rare that a sequel surpasses the original.

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