Sign in
Home›Games›1990s›Resident Evil 2
Game · Resident Evil 2

Resident Evil 2

Two interlocking scenarios and cinematic staging made survival horror a blockbuster genre.

Released 1998 Developer Capcom Platform PlayStation Genre Survival horror Era The 3D rupture

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Resident Evil 2 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

In-Engine Cutscene 1984New Game Plus 1995Fixed Cinematic Camera 1996Spatial Inventory Grid 1996

The Resident Evil series in this dataset

1996
1998
Resident Evil 2 this page
2005
2009
2017
2021
2023

Look this game up elsewhere

Wikipedia ↗MobyGames ↗Giant Bomb ↗
← Previous in seriesResident EvilNext in series →Resident Evil 4