Resident Evil: Revelations 2

Resident Evil: Revelations 2

Developer(s) Capcom
Frima Studio (Vita)
Publisher(s) Capcom
Sony Computer Entertainment (Vita)
Director(s) Yasuhiro Ampo
Producer(s) Michiteru Okabe
Designer(s) Kazunori Kadoi
Writer(s) Dai Satō
Composer(s) Kohta Suzuki
Ichiro Komoto
Nima Fakhrara
Series Resident Evil
Engine MT Framework (Multi-Thread, Meta Tools and Multi-Target)
Platform(s) PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Survival horror
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Distribution Optical disc, download

Resident Evil: Revelations 2, known as Biohazard Revelations 2 (Japanese: バイオハザード リベレーションズ 2 Hepburn: Baiohazādo Riberēshonzu Tsū) in Japan, is an episodic survival horror video game and the tenth installment of the Resident Evil franchise, developed and published by Capcom. The game is a follow up to Resident Evil: Revelations.

Gameplay

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is set between the events of Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6.[2] Claire Redfield is the main protagonist, and Barry Burton's daughter Moira plays a supporting role.[3] In December 2014, a new trailer revealed Barry as another playable protagonist, and he is joined by Natalia Korda, a little girl with supernatural abilities. The official cinematic trailer was released in December 2014.[4]

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is a survival horror game which supports cooperative gameplay on console platforms.[5][6] The game has stealth elements as only one of the players uses guns. The other is more vulnerable, preferring to use weapons such as crowbars and bricks, or be used to find hidden items with a flashlight or special senses.

Plot

Resident Evil fictional chronology
July 23-24, 1998 Zero
July 24-25, 1998 Resident Evil/REmake
September 24-October 1, 1998 Outbreak & Outbreak 2
September 28-October 1, 1998 Nemesis
September 29-30, 1998 Resident Evil 2
November 25-26, 1998 Survivor
December 17-28, 1998 Code: Veronica
December 28, 1998 Survivor 2
Summer 2002 Operation Javier/Darkness Falls
September 23-24, 2002 Dead Aim
February 18, 2003 Umbrella's End
Autumn 2004 Resident Evil 4/Separate Ways
2005 Revelations
November 2005 Degeneration
Autumn 2006 Lost in Nightmares
March 5-7, 2009 Resident Evil 5
March 6-7, 2009 Desperate Escape
c. 2011 Heavenly Island (manga)
Early 2011 Revelations 2
February 2011 Damnation
c. 2012 The Marhawa Desire (manga)
December 24, 2012-July 1, 2013 Resident Evil 6

Alternate timelines

Gaiden
Operation Raccoon City
Live-action films
Novels
Comic books
Episode 1
"Penal Colony"

Claire Redfield and Moira Burton, daughter of Barry Burton, work for a biohazard prevention agency Terra Save, and are kidnapped by masked assailants. Claire and Moira are taken to an island facility where the "Afflicted" are in wait. An unknown woman calling herself the "Overseer" watches via cameras and tells them the bracelets on their wrists record fear, as the pair try to find safety. Upon reaching a radio tower, they call Barry for help. Unfortunately, Barry arrives very late as the distress call was actually made months ago. Once he reaches the island, he immediately meets Natalia, a strange little girl. Together, they head to the tower, encountering many dangerous situations along the way. Natalia claims Moira had died 6 months ago, while having a severe headache.

Episode 2
"Contemplation"

Claire and Moira meet up with their fellow Terra Save co-workers, discovering a broken helicopter they intend to fix and use in order to flee the island. However, they find themselves ambushed by a horde of Afflicted, separating Claire, Moira and Pedro from Gabe and the helicopter; Pedro succumbs to fear and is transformed into a monster. Claire and Moira fight off the Afflicted until Neil arrives to help them escape. They decide to make their way to the Overseer's tower, but are once again ambushed and Neil stays behind to fight off the monsters. Claire and Moira come across Natalia and she joins them. Gabe fixes the helicopter and attempts to escape, but the Overseer remotely crashes it, killing Gabe. As Claire and Moira are distracted by this, Natalia is kidnapped and taken to the Overseer.

Six months later, Natalia takes Barry to the Overseer's tower, the last place she saw Moira alive. Along the way, Barry learns Natalia is an orphan as her parents died in the Terragrigia incident, the shock having left her immune to fear. Inside the tower, they find a portrait depicting Albert Wesker and a woman; when Barry recognizes him by name, Natalia corrects him by stating the woman is named Wesker. They are then surprised by the Overseer, who incapacitates Barry and reveals herself to be Alex Wesker.

Episode 3
"Judgment"

Claire and Moira follow a note that was left by Neil and learn of his intentions to release Uroboros to justify the FBC. They then confront Neil who mutates; Claire and Moira are forced with no choice but to kill him. Meanwhile Barry and Natalia narrowly escape from mutated Alex and work their way from the sewer back to the surface. Upon arriving back on the surface they fight through the old mine. Afterwards Barry gets knocked off the path by Alex and separated from Natalia, while Alex tries to kill Natalia, Natalia does something that startles and strikes fear into Alex.

Episode 4
"Metamorphosis"

After Neil's death Claire and Moira make their way up to the Monument to confront Alex Wesker, and the duo learn of her backstory. She shoots herself in the head and forces Claire and Moira out of the Monument as a self-destruct sequence becomes active. Eventually Moira sacrifices herself so Claire can escape whom is rescued shortly after escaping the island while Alex mutates. She tells Barry to go to the island in the hopes of saving Moira. Six months later, Barry and Natalia make their way through several underground toxic mines before reaching Alex's research facility, disguised as a mansion. They make their way through as Alex taunts Natalia via her bracelet. When the duo confront her she injects herself with Uroboros and mutates a second time to fight Barry and Natalia. After apparently killing her, Alex suddenly springs alive and incapacitates Barry. She grabs Natalia and once again attempts to kill her. At this point, the story proceeds to one of two endings.

Endings

In the bad ending, where Claire defeated Neil and thus Moira never overcame her fear of guns, Natalia is killed. With her mind gone, Alex's consciousness fully awakens in her body and takes over it. Alex destroys her former, mutated body and reveals herself to Barry, leaving him to die on the island.

In the good ending, where Moira defeats Neil and subsequently overcomes her fear of guns, Moira arrives in time to save Natalia, distracting and temporarily repelling Alex with gunshots. Barry, Moira and Natalia escape the area, but Alex, mutating even further, gives chase and ultimately corners them on the edge of a cliff. Claire arrives in a helicopter to rescue the trio, and their combined efforts take Alex down. As they leave the island, Barry expresses his intention to retire and raise Natalia as his daughter. In an epilogue, Claire is informed that her brother is in China, to which she responds "tell Piers to take care of him." She heads towards Barry's home, where Natalia, surrounded by newspapers reporting on bio-terrorism, finishes reading The Zürau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka and smiles ominously, revealing that Alex indeed succeeded, to some extent, in taking over her body.

Bonus episodes

"Little Miss"

In this extra episode, set just before Natalia meets Barry, Natalia wakes up in a dream like state, being greeted by Lottie, her favorite teddy bear. She goes on a search for Lottie after this. Joining her is 'Dark Natalia' who can sense the presence of monsters so that Natalia can sneak past them through a somewhat Silent Hill-esque atmosphere. They find various postcards sent by Lottie scattered around and eventually find him on a beach, but this was all a trick by Alex Wesker to lure Natalia there, as the other Natalia vanishes as well. At this point, Natalia snaps out of her dream and sees Barry's boat approaching. This was really all of Alex's plan to put her soul into Natalia.

"The Struggle"

During the six-month gap since Claire's escape and Barry's arrival to the island, Moira tries to survive on the island with the help of an old Russian man, named Evgeny Rebic, who Moira had met once before in the underground sections of the island. He saved her life after the fallen debris had separated Claire and Moira. Food is very scarce now and the pair overcome much danger. Sadly, once Evgeny learns of his daughter's demise, he decides to stay behind alone and himself dies. Moira eventually meets up with her father, Natalia and Claire. In the canon, Moira would overcome her fear of guns and kill Neil, as well as save her father from a grotesquely mutated Alex Wesker.

Release

Capcom released the game starting February 25 in a weekly episodic form for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. Once the final episode was released, a complete version was released.[7] Sony Computer Entertainment will publish the PlayStation Vita version of the game.[8]

Reception

Aggregate review scores
Game GameRankings Metacritic
Episode 1: Penal Colony (PC) 77.75%[9]
(PS4) 73.08%[10]
(XONE) 70.94%[11]		 (PS4) 75[12]
(PC) 73[13]
(XONE) 73[14]
Episode 2: Contemplation (PC) 78.67%[15]
(PS4) 77.00%[16]
(XONE) 73.64%[17]		 (PC) 76[18]
(PS4) 75[19]
(XONE) 74[20]
Episode 3: Judgment (PC) 79.67%[21]
(PS4) 74.29%[22]
(XONE) 72.73%[23]		 (PC) 78[24]
(PS4) 77[25]
(XONE) 73[26]
Episode 4: Metamorphosis (PS4) 76.14%[27]
(PC) 74.75%[28]
(XONE) 73.67%[29]		 (PS4) 75[30]
(XONE) 74[31]
(PC) 73[32]
Episode 1
Penal Colony

Episode 1: Penal Colony received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 77.75% based on 4 reviews and 73/100 based on 8 reviews,[9][13] the PlayStation 4 version 73.08% based on 12 reviews and 75/100 based on 22 reviews[10][12] and the Xbox One version 70.94% based on 16 reviews and 73/100 based on 16 reviews.[11][14]

Episode 2
Contemplation

Episode 2: Contemplation received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 78.67% based on 3 reviews and 76/100 based on 4 reviews,[15][18] the PlayStation 4 version 77.00% based on 8 reviews and 75/100 based on 17 reviews[16][19] and the Xbox One version 73.64% based on 11 reviews and 74/100 based on 11 reviews.[17][20]

Episode 3
Judgment

Episode 3: Judgment received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Microsoft Windows version 79.67% based on 3 reviews and 78/100 based on 5 reviews,[21][24] the PlayStation 4 version 74.29% based on 7 reviews and 77/100 based on 14 reviews[22][25] and the Xbox One version 72.73% based on 11 reviews and 73/100 based on 11 reviews.[23][26]

Episode 4
Metamorphosis

Episode 4: Metamorphosis received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation 4 version 76.14% based on 7 reviews and 75/100 based on 15 reviews,[27][30] the Microsoft Windows version 74.75% based on 4 reviews and 73/100 based on 4 reviews[28][32] and the Xbox One version 73.67% based on 9 reviews and 74/100 based on 10 reviews.[29][31]

References

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  2. ↑ Zorine Te (2014-09-07). "Resident Evil Revelations 2 Will Star, Claire Redfield and Barry's Daughter". GameSpot. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  3. ↑ Mitch Dyer (2014-10-01). "Resident Evil Revelations 2: Profanity, Fear, and Female Leads". IGN. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  4. ↑ Yin-Poole, Wesley (2014-02-12). "Resident Evil Revelations 2 trailer confirms Barry Burton's return". Eurogamer. Retrieved 2015-01-13.
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  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Episode 3: Judgment Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
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