Resident Evil 2 News

Resident Evil 2 has sold more Steam copies than Resident Evil 7

By all accounts, this year's remake of Resident Evil 2 from Capcom has been enormously successful, and is one of the best games of the year so far. According to the publisher, it shipped over three million copies on all platforms in its first week alone, but we're more interested in how Resident Evil 2 has sold on PC - especially how it compares, sales-wise, to the other Resident Evil games.

Fortunately, it seems that Resident Evil 2 is performing really well on PC, as the game has now sold over a million copies on Steam - or more specifically, has over a million owners on Steam, so this includes anyone who bought a Steam key from other sellers.

By comparison, the previous game in the series, the slightly-divisive first-person Resident Evil 7, has not yet broken a million owners on Steam in its lifetime - so the remake of Resident Evil 2 has completely outperformed it. That's despite the remake only being out for two months, and Resident Evil 7 being available for over two years.

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Resident Evil 2's remake is happening and it's coming to PC

Resident Evil 2 is getting an HD remake, and it's coming out on January 25, 2019. Publisher Capcom confirms in a press release that it will be coming to PC. The news was announced at Sony's E3 2018 conference with two grisly new trailers, both of which you can watch for yourself below.

A Resident Evil 2 HD remaster and/or remake has been in the works off-and-on for a while now, having first been announced in August 2015 before going dark for a couple of years. But clearly Capcom has not been idle during all that time, having rebuilt the original game from scratch in the modern RE Engine. The famous over-the-shoulder camera perspective is confirmed to return.

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The original Resident Evil 2 released in 1998 for the first PlayStation, and introduced such series favourites as rookie cop Leon S. Kennedy and college student Claire Redfield. The setting is Raccoon City, whose citizens have, as you could probably guess, been turned into ravenous zombies by a disastrous plague. Leon and Claire must work together to survive and uncover the cause of the outbreak.

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Resident Evil 2 PC release time - here's when the remake unlocks on Steam

Resident Evil 2 finally launches in all its gory, remade glory on January 24 - but with today's digital distribution, it's not so much the date that matters but the time. Luckily, Steam has at last effectively given us those release times with a countdown to launch, so we can properly count down the hours until launch. Just expect to look jealously across the ocean depending on what region you're in.

For folks in the UK, RE2 will be available at midnight GMT. If you're in the US, expect a launch at midnight EST / 21:00 PST - yes, looks like the west coast won't have to stay up quite so late to enjoy the spooks. Either way, there are less than 12 hours to go.

Those last few hours will be well worth the wait, as our Resident Evil 2 PC review will attest. Chris says "This remake is a bloodbath for longtime fans to relish, but one that stands tall among the survival horror greats of today. It would do so even without the legacy behind it."

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Resident Evil 2 (the remake) has already nearly outsold Resident Evil 2 (the original)

May 21, 2019 The Resident Evil 2 remake has sold 4.2 million units.

Resident Evil 2 sales - that is, copies of the 1998 PlayStation original - currently hover at around 4.96 million, putting it in sixth place among every game Capcom has ever released. But while RE2 got a two decade head start, its remake is catching up fast. Two months after launch, the remake had sold 4.2 million units, just cracking Capcom's all-time top ten.

Those numbers are accurate up through March 31, so it's possible the remake has already surpassed the original in the month and a half since then. We'll likely see when the next financial quarter rolls around. The studio is making the most of the game's success, too - Capcom's got "numerous" new games in development using the RE Engine.

You can see the full Capcom sales rankings at the company's official site (via Gematsu). Another success story in this update is Devil May Cry V, which sold 2.1 million copies between March 8 and March 21. Capcom said those DMC5 sales have "successfully reinvigorated" the series as part of the company's latest financial report.

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Resident Evil 2 sets a new standard for remakes

Resident Evil 2 is probably the best remake ever made. That's high praise, but it is absolutely warranted: Capcom has created exactly what you want out of a remake. This is the story, world, and characters that you remember, but built from the ground up in a modern engine, and using modern gameplay mechanics. This is no halfway house remaster; this is what everyone wants from the Final Fantasy VII remake, but applied to one of the 1990s' greatest horror games.

The E3 playable demo is short, but demonstrates the two greatest strengths of this remake. The Raccoon City Police Station is exactly how you remember it; an almost gothic labyrinth of passages, with secret routes that require medallions to access them.

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It is, once again, Leon Kennedy's first day on the job, and he makes progress through his dreadful career start in a slow, deliberate manner with extensive use of cautious room exploration and puzzle solving. But all of this is rendered in the Resident Evil 7 engine, and played from Resi 4's over-the-shoulder perspective. As such, the game looks stunning, and arguably plays better than the series ever has.

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