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Zombie flick maestro George A. Romero could neter hue imagined t‘r...t his celluloid splatterfests would directly influence- one of the most . -' :m . ~ "r t " - .' '4 successful computer games of all time. But 1990's Resales/r" All 7 .: 3;) ‘ ‘ action—adventure where you were chased around .1 LJpriLf‘) unison l), l :m _:: . ' .' 9's 1' .' ‘-_- ' \:: . putrifying flesh-munching corpses 7- was tlbbuldlxiy m rm“ ll X_F"es Web
The sequel Resident Evil 2 looks set to be Cteri more of a [Jiltuiurllciilxnl The figures speak for themselves: 1.8 million cepies sold on (Ir: list (I 1“} '33? :I'IH' m w"- of release in Japan, 380,000 whipped off the shelves m it.) opmmJ .r. weekend in the States. Back in Blight), the game will ship more Ltlfile; m l !'.’ its first weekend than The \‘erve’s Urban Hynms, equating to. £10 mum. . z: . worth of business. When you consider that Tiler/it took Lib rrrgwrr rrt Lie w r ~ \, box office in its opening weekend, that kind of puts thing's into ' , ‘x r , perspective. This game is as much part of our ClilELLI'.rl lmdseipq- a, Limr \ _:\ ' v , Gallagher’s eyebrow. . at 2 ,
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with gore. You start the game as rookie cop Leon or foxy duck 6..ch- and, controlling your character in the third person, travel around :r spurw'la'rJ series of spooky environments which rival Seven tor ngQJIEIch‘JJ. AL um) point you'll be attacked by grisly corpses who need to he shot sexual
times in order to stay ’dead’. , . '. . a, ._ ma: it, In a full-circle scenario, Romero directed the Japanese .ra't t-rt tor , .. r . : z ; Resident Evil 2, demonstrating just how connected the movie and grin-s ‘ ; ' '_ g , r
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