{"id":63681,"date":"2014-04-26T13:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T11:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63681"},"modified":"2014-04-26T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T11:48:24","slug":"resident-evil-2-gets-an-unofficial-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63681-resident-evil-2-gets-an-unofficial-facelift","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil 2 gets an unofficial facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resident Evil 2 fan, Rod Lima has recreated key sections of Capcom&#8217;s classic survival horror to play in the style Resident Evil 4.<\/p>\n<p>The remade version is not only graphically superior, but does away with the original game&#8217;s fixed camera angles, replacing them with 3D environments.<\/p>\n<p>Lima borrowed environments and character models from RE4, then patched in new inventory and weapon systems. Sound effects and cutscenes from the original Resident Evil 2 have also been merged in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not planning on doing a Resident Evil 2 remake. I made this only to see some code actually working&#8230; and as the result was good,&#8221; said Lima. &#8220;It is fun to walk around in Raccoon City, RE4 style.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can take a look at the sections of\u00a0RE2 that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lima has remade in the videos, below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/62rptEGgPLc?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q5fm8z5RqG0?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Is a remade version of Resident Evil 2 a game you would play? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2014-04-24-resident-evil-2-fan-creates-re4-style-remake\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63655-watch-dogs-gets-a-hands-on-test.html\">Watch Dogs gets a hands-on test<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63447-bethesda-attacked-by-barbed-wire-lobbyists.html\">Bethesda attacked by barbed wire lobbyists<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63443-phishers-target-world-or-warcraft-fans.html\">Phishers target World of Warcraft fans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An RE2 fan has remade parts of the game to look like Resident Evil 4, and has done a fine job<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":63683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,2139,12347,8054],"class_list":["post-63681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-resident-evil","tag-resident-evil-2","tag-resident-evil-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63713,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63681\/revisions\/63713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}