Resident Evil 2 (2019 video game)

Resident Evil 2
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Director(s)	Kazunori Kadoi Yasuhiro Anpo
Producer(s)	Yoshiaki Hirabayashi Tsuyoshi Kanda
Designer(s)	Hidehiro Goda
Programmer(s)	Masatoshi Fukazawa
Artist(s)	Gez Fry Satoshi Takamatsu
Writer(s)	Brent Friedman
Composer(s)	Shusaku Uchiyama Zhenlan Kang Masami Ueda
Series	Resident Evil
Engine	RE Engine
Platform(s)	PlayStation 4 Windows Xbox One PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X/S Nintendo Switch
Release	PS4, Windows, Xbox One January 25, 2019 Amazon Luna June 9, 2022 PS5, Xbox Series X/S June 13, 2022 Nintendo Switch November 11, 2022
Genre(s)	Survival horror
Mode(s)	Single-player

Resident Evil 2^[a] is a 2019 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom. A remake of the 1998 game Resident Evil 2, it was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in January 2019 and for Amazon Luna, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch in 2022. Players control the rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy and the college student Claire Redfield as they attempt to escape Raccoon City during a zombie outbreak.

Capcom considered remaking Resident Evil 2 following the release of the remake of the first Resident Evil in 2002, but the producer, Shinji Mikami, did not want to divert development from Resident Evil 4 (2005). Capcom announced the Resident Evil 2 remake in 2015 and released the first trailer and gameplay footage at E3 2018. It was built on the RE Engine, which was also used for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.

Resident Evil 2 received acclaim for its presentation, gameplay and faithfulness to the original. It won the Golden Joystick Award for Game of the Year and was nominated for the Game Award for Game of the Year. By March 2024, it had sold 13.9 million units,^[1] outselling the original Resident Evil 2 and becoming the best-selling Resident Evil game. It was followed by the remakes Resident Evil 3 in 2020 and Resident Evil 4 in 2023.

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