Ada Wong and Sherry Birkin are two members of the supporting cast, and whose paths the player will cross on multiple occasions. For example, if Leon were to take an automatic weapon out of a particular locker, that weapon would not be there when Claire finally makes her way to the room. In addition, certain actions taken by the player on the first playthrough will affect the second game. The sequel to Shinji Mikami's breakthrough title, Resident Evil 2 provides two intertwining adventures for players to embark on.Īfter completing the game with either Chris or Claire, players can restart the title as the other character in order to gain a different perspective of the mysterious goings on in Raccoon City. New police recruit Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield the sister of STARS agent Chris Redfield, find themselves in the middle of an experiment gone horribly wrong. The once peaceful town is now overrun with zombies and all manner of genetic mutations. Previously confined to an old mansion, the Umbrella corporation's legacy of fatal mutations has spilled over into nearby Raccoon City. Kennedy and Claire Redfield encounter other survivors and are confronted by William Birkin, the mutated creator of the even more powerful G-virus.
In their escape from the city, the two protagonists Leon S.
The second installment in the Resident Evil series, its story takes place two months after the events of the first game and is set in Raccoon City, a Midwestern mountain community whose residents have been turned into zombies by the T-virus, a biological weapon developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella. Resident Evil 2, known as Biohazard 2 in Japan, is a survival horror video game by Capcom originally released for the PlayStation in 1998.