#4. RESIDENT EVIL 2 (1998)
A landmark release for Resident Evil, for Capcom, and for the survival horror genre as a whole. The first Resident Evil showed that Capcom were capable of delivering an excellently designed and tense horror experience. But with Resident Evil 2, they showed that they have an even deeper understanding of what makes horror tick, and that they can pull it off on an even bigger scale. Trying to make it out of Raccoon City as it crumbles around you, traversing environments throughout the city and trying to survive the onslaught of the dead, experiencing the story through the perspectives of the excellent pair, Leon and Claire, all while their campaigns impacted each other and crossed over with each other and unpredictable ways- Resident Evil 2 took the formula established by its predecessor, and perfected it to t.
