If you still haven’t gotten around to indulging yourself with a trip to the perpetually grimy world of Resident Evil Revelations 2, now is the time to atone for your sins.
The first chapter in the episodic spin-off is available free-of-charge on the PlayStation Store — for PS3 and PS4 users — as well as on Xbox Live. This way you can get a taste of what it has to offer without the risk of feeling $5 worth of buyer’s remorse.
In related news, the Resident Evil Revelations 2 Deluxe Edition arrived earlier this week for the Xbox One. With a $29.99 price tag, it’s really more for the most elite of us. To qualify, you must’ve been using an EpiPen in the place of a “traditional” alarm clock for at least 5 years, and your K/D ratio must not have ever fallen below 1.5. Not ever.
Capcom did a bang up job with Revelations 2, even if it does make the same mistake The Evil Within did by relying too much on a stereotypical understanding of what’s scary.
Scary visuals only go so far, and I think we’ve seen enough humanoid monsters with faces that resemble dirty pork chops wrapped in barbed wire to not be that intimidated by it. Aside from that, this game is definitely worth your time if you’re a fan of the series, the horror genre, or if you’re just fond of shooting ugly guys in the dick.
