Up until this point, the PlayStation 4 has had the monopoly on showing off Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil 2. nVidia has gone and changed all that with the premiere of the PC version of the game in this glorious 4K trailer.
Now, you’re probably asking yourself why nVidia, a video card manufacturer, is presenting this trailer? Well, at Gamescom, nVidia have announced a series of new RTX graphics cards that focus on raytracing technology, which is set to be the next big thing in the industry when it comes to lighting and graphics. I won’t go into the technical stuff (leave that to this page to explain it), but long story short, it’ll make your games look amazing.
I should mention that Resident Evil 2 is not one of the games that features the new raytracing tech, however. That belongs to Metro Exodus, which looks downright gorgeous. Then again, so does RE2.
Anyways, back to the trailer, which doesn’t really show anything that we already haven’t seen, other than the fact that this is on PC and not the PlayStation 4. Which looks damn amazing. No specs have been released yet in regards to what rig you’ll need to get the game looking this good (although it’ll probably involve selling a kidney).
Resident Evil 2 awakens on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on January 25, 2019.