https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jan/22/resident-evil-2-review-genre-defining-horror-loaded-with-dread > Capcom’s survival horror classic returns with improved visuals, new controls and a whole host of monstrous surprises > Let’s get this out of the way: Resident Evil 2 is the best game in Capcom’s long-running survival horror series and possibly the greatest example of the genre ever produced. Released in 1998, two years after the agenda-setting Resident Evil, it introduced the iconic characters Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield and Ada Wong. It had wonderfully horrible monsters (the tongue-lashing Lickers, the hideously mutated William Birkin, the indomitable Mr X), and it boasted a brilliant set-piece location, the Racoon City police department, housed within a scary old art gallery.