50 Fun Facts About Resident Evil 2

Which zombie film grew out of an episode of the sitcom Spaced that was inspired by Resident Evil 2?

Shaun of the Dead began when director Edgar Wright made a Spaced episode in which a character, hooked on the game, hallucinates a zombie invasion.

Which horror film director shot a live-action Japanese TV commercial for the original Resident Evil 2?

George A. Romero, whose zombie films had inspired the series, shot the advert on location at Lincoln Heights Jail with young Hollywood actors as the two heroes.

Which Hollywood actress did an artist use as the model for scientist Annette in the original Resident Evil 2?

Jodie Foster was the reference for Annette, while the same artist, Isao Ohishi, drew hero Leon S. Kennedy after his own pet dog.

Which time-travel film sequel partly inspired the overlapping hero scenarios of the original Resident Evil 2?

Back to the Future Part II revisits its predecessor's events from a new angle, the idea behind the game's Zapping System, where one hero's actions change the other's playthrough.

In a joke bonus mode of Resident Evil 2, the player controls a knife-wielding block of which food?

Tofu stars in The Tofu Survivor, which sends the block through a gauntlet of enemies armed only with knives; the mode dates back to the 1998 original.

Which hulking Tyrant does Umbrella air-drop into the police station to stalk players in Resident Evil 2?

Mr. X cannot be killed in the 2019 remake, only briefly stunned, so players must slip away as he follows them from room to room.

The pre-rendered cutscenes of the original Resident Evil 2 began as stop-motion footage of which objects?

Action figures were animated in stop-motion and then rebuilt with computer graphics; Ada Wong appears in none of these scenes because her model was not finished in time.

The entire English voice cast of the original Resident Evil 2 was recruited from which country?

Canada supplied every voice, including Alyson Court as Claire Redfield, and the lines were recorded before the cutscenes were even finished.

Which hard limit did Capcom build into the 1-Shot Demo of the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?

A 30-minute timer ended the 1-Shot Demo for good once it ran out, which drew complaints, so the same slice of the game later returned as the untimed R.P.D. Demo.

Artist Isao Ohishi modelled Leon S. Kennedy of Resident Evil 2 on his own pet dog of which breed?

Bloodhound was the unlikely reference for the hero, who started out as a veteran officer before the rewritten story made him a rookie.

Claire Redfield arrives in Raccoon City in Resident Evil 2 to search for which missing person?

Her brother Chris, a hero of the first game, has already left town to investigate Umbrella in Europe, so she never finds him here.

What brings Leon S. Kennedy to Raccoon City on the night the outbreak of Resident Evil 2 begins?

His first day on duty as a Raccoon police officer turns into a fight for survival, and the manual says he showed up late after a row with his girlfriend.

How do Leon, Claire and young Sherry finally flee the self-destructing laboratory at the end of Resident Evil 2?

On a train is the way out, but the giant mutated final boss follows the heroes aboard for one last fight before it is destroyed.

Which giant mutated animal attacks the heroes in the sewers beneath Raccoon City in Resident Evil 2?

An alligator grown huge is the boss of the sewers, which the heroes cross on the way from the police station to Umbrella's underground laboratory.

Which camera view replaced the fixed angles of the original game in the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?

Over-the-shoulder aiming let players move while shooting, so the designers had to hide enemies with lighting, smoke and room layout instead of camera cuts.

Which consumable item must players spend at typewriters to save their progress in the original Resident Evil 2?

Ink ribbons are in short supply, so every save is a gamble; most players of the 2019 remake can save freely instead.

What nickname describes the original Resident Evil 2 scheme in which pressing up always walks the hero forward?

Tank controls rotate the character with left and right regardless of the camera, a scheme the 2019 remake swapped for free movement.

Which Umbrella creation does a scientist inject into himself, becoming the mutating monster of Resident Evil 2?

G-virus was his life's work, and he used it on himself when Umbrella's own soldiers came to seize it, then killed almost the whole squad.

How long after the mansion incident of the first game does the Raccoon City outbreak of Resident Evil 2 occur?

Two months separate the stories, putting the outbreak at the end of September 1998, after a leaked virus has reached the city's drinking water.

Who directed the original Resident Evil 2 and went on to direct Devil May Cry and Bayonetta?

Hideki Kamiya clashed so often with his producer over the sequel's direction that the producer stepped back and asked only to see a new build once a month.

Which director of the first game stepped back to produce the original Resident Evil 2?

Shinji Mikami scrapped the first version of the sequel when it was about two-thirds done because he judged it dull, a build fans now know as Resident Evil 1.5.

Which Umbrella scientist is the father of Sherry, the girl Claire Redfield protects in Resident Evil 2?

William Birkin spends the game hunting his own daughter after he mutates, drawn to her genetic make-up, and implants her with an embryo.

Which Umbrella special forces agent, nicknamed the Grim Reaper, stars in The 4th Survivor mode of Resident Evil 2?

HUNK earned the nickname as the lone survivor of mission after mission, and here he is the only member of his unit to come through the mission alive.

Which Resident Evil 2 monster is the form a human zombie takes as its T-virus infection progresses further?

Licker creatures were an accident of the infection rather than a designed weapon, though their combat potential later led Umbrella to develop them on purpose.

Which starting item does Claire Redfield carry in the original Resident Evil 2 in place of Leon's lighter?

A lockpick and a lighter are the only things that set the two heroes apart, unlike the first game, whose leads had different abilities.

Which European country temporarily banned Resident Evil 2 in 1999 and seized thousands of unsold copies?

Italy acted after a civil rights group attacked the game's realistic violence, and its finance police seized over 5,500 copies before the ban was overturned.

Why did Capcom make the North American release of Resident Evil 2 harder than the Japanese version?

To discourage rentals, the Western version was tuned to take longer, so that players could not finish it during a short hire and skip buying it.

Which Nintendo 64 shooter beat Resident Evil 2 to Console Action Game of the Year at the inaugural AIAS awards?

GoldenEye 007 took home the most awards that night, including the overall title of the year, while the zombie sequel went home without a win.

In the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake, Ada Wong first tells Leon she is an agent of which organisation?

FBI is only her cover story: a scientist later exposes her as a mercenary out to sell the virus sample to the highest bidder.

Which wounded police lieutenant shows Leon a secret passage out of the station in the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?

Marvin Branagh has already been bitten when he helps and later succumbs to the infection; music producer Patrick Levar's face was scanned for the character.

Which corrupt police chief takes Umbrella's bribes to bury evidence of its experiments in Resident Evil 2?

Brian Irons is worse than corrupt: the 2019 remake makes him a serial killer, and he dies when a parasitic embryo bursts out of his body.

Which gun shop owner survives in the No Time to Mourn mission of the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?

Robert Kendo normally dies beside his infected daughter, but this what-if mission has a friend radio in a rescue helicopter just in time.

Which motorcycle-racing student was the heroine of the scrapped first build of Resident Evil 2?

Elza Walker was reworked into Claire Redfield to tie the story to the first game, but her racing suit returned as a costume in the 2019 remake.

In the original Resident Evil 2, a virus sample is hidden inside which item that young Sherry wears?

A gold pendant holds the sample, and after the girl drops it the spy Ada Wong picks it up, which sets her against the child's mother.

Which part of Leon's 1998 police uniform was dropped for the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake's realistic look?

Shoulder pads were only there to make his blocky low-polygon model easier to read, so the photorealistic remake had no need for them.

Which plants do players gather and mix to restore health in both versions of Resident Evil 2?

Herbs heal in both versions, and in the original the hero's posture shows when one is needed: a badly hurt character clutches their stomach and limps.

Which in-house Capcom technology, introduced with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, powers the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?

RE Engine renders the city in photorealistic 3D, and the lead characters' faces are based on scans of real models.

On which difficulty of the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake must players still use up an item to save?

Hardcore brings back the limited saves of the 1998 game, while the two easier modes let players save as often as they like.

What is the name of Umbrella's underground laboratory beneath Raccoon City in the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?

NEST self-destructs in the finale, and its name sets it apart from the Hive, the secret laboratory of the live-action films.

Which Resident Evil 3 monster was hidden as an Easter egg in the R.P.D. Demo of the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?

Nemesis was slipped into the re-released demo to tease the next remake in the series, which followed in 2020.

In The Ghost Survivors mode of the Resident Evil 2 remake, which unlockable headwear grants infinite ammunition?

Cat ears are the one accessory in the mode with a real effect; every other unlockable hat is purely cosmetic.

The 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake was named Ultimate Game of the Year at which annual gaming ceremony?

Golden Joystick Awards voters also gave it Best Audio, while at The Game Awards it was nominated for the top prize but did not win.

Who plays Leon S. Kennedy in Welcome to Raccoon City, the 2021 film based on Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2?

Avan Jogia plays the rookie beside Kaya Scodelario's Claire Redfield in a reboot that adapts the first two games together.

Which 2009 Wii rail shooter retells Resident Evil 2 in a scenario called Memories of a Lost City?

The Darkside Chronicles reimagines the plot while keeping key scenes from all four original scenarios, and lets two players shoot through it together.

Which minigame added in the Dual Shock version of Resident Evil 2 has players planting four antivirus bombs?

Extreme Battle lets players pick Leon, Claire, Ada Wong or a returning hero of the first game, then fight through a gauntlet of enemies on limited supplies.

Which developer, later renamed Rockstar San Diego, squeezed the two-disc Resident Evil 2 onto one Nintendo 64 cartridge?

Angel Studios shrank the game's data to under a tenth of its original size with a core team of just nine full-time developers.

A black-and-white version of Resident Evil 2 with only Leon's story was released for which handheld console?

Game.com maker Tiger Electronics cut the cutscenes and music, yet its version was the first in the series on a handheld and the first rated Teen.

The Central Public Hall of which Japanese city inspired the Raccoon City Police Station of Resident Evil 2?

Osaka gave the station its model, part of a push to make locations grander using photographs of Western-style buildings in Japanese cities.

Which journalist is locked in a police station cell after investigating Umbrella in Resident Evil 2?

Ben Bertolucci is killed in his cell by the Tyrant in the 2019 remake, though a bonus mission imagines the mayor's daughter setting him free.

A December 2019 update to the Resident Evil 2 remake hid a letter written by which heroine of another series entry?

Jill Valentine's letter to the owner sits in the gun shop, and reading it unlocks an achievement named after chasing her.