Biohazard Outbreak: File 2 (2004) (VG)

Director:

Eiichiro Sasaki

Writers:

Yasunori Ichinose (scenario director Desperate Times)
Kazunori Kadoi (scenario director: End of the Road/Flashback)

Release Date:

26 April 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

The deadly T-Virus plagues Raccoon City with zombies and monsters of all kinds. Survive the scenarios...

Cast

Beau Billingslea	...	Mark Wilkins / Jim Chapman / Marvin Branagh / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Bob Buchholz	...	George Hamilton / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Richard Cansino	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
D.C. Douglas	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Dorothy Elias-Fahn	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Peter Emshwiller	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Bridget Hoffman	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Wendee Lee	...	Rita / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Larry Leong	...	Rodriguez / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Michael Lindsay	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Julie Maddalena	...	Cindy Lennox / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Michael McConnohie	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Matt K. Miller	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Daran Norris	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Liam O'Brien	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Bob Papenbrook	...	David King / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Jamieson Price	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Debra Rogers	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Michelle Ruff	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Lia Sargent	...	Yoko Suzuki / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Joshua Seth	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Steve Staley	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Skip Stellrecht	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Jessica Straus	...	Alyssa Ashcroft / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Kim Strauss	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Jim Taggert	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Jeff Teravainen	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Kirk Thornton	...	Kevin Ryman / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Kari Wahlgren	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Dave Wittenberg	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)

Also Known As:

Resident Evil: Outbreak - File #2 (USA)

Country:

Japan

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:M

Company:

Capcom Company

Trivia:

The original Outbreak game was to feature 20 levels, however, as time pass, the development team only finished 5 and packaged them in the first Outbreak. File 2 contains 5 of those unfinished levels, as well as 6 bonus levels made just for this game.

Goofs:

Plot holes: Both the Outbreak games end at the same time in time line, but they both end in different places. In the first Outbreak file game, the game ends with your character being escorted out of Raccoon City by helicopter, and the second game ends with your character down a highway looking back at the ruined city.

Quotes:

Mark Wilkins: Front and center!

Movie Connections:

Follows Biohazard Outbreak (2003) (VG)

Another relaxing visit to ol Raccoon City...again

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

No matter which way you look at it Resident Evil will always and forever will be my favourite series of survival horror games, yes better than Silent Hill. I won't comment on the movies because lets face it they can't hold a candle to the games.

As a long time follower of the series I was quite intrigued to see a Resident Evil game that lets us play as a series of survivors with their own uniqueness stuck in everyone's favourite zombie infested hell hole...Raccoon City. Well the original outbreak had its flaws but on the whole it was somewhat refreshing to play with completely new characters and stories set during the events of the first three.

Now along comes the sequel and well...we are still stuck in that place and nothing at all has changed really. We still have the same group of characters, same moves, weapons etc. What has changed though and about time is the variety of enemies affected by that nasty virus. Zombie elephants, zombie lions, zombie hyena's...no I ain't joking they have them and for good reason. As much fun as it is wiping out zombies they just get bloody boring (excuse the pun) so these new batch of infected mammals is a nice change of horror pace...and I use that term literally.

Apart from the new enemies not much else has changed really. The graphics seems to have had a touch up which is good, and more story has been added as the original left things unanswered. Sadly though the A.I of your fellow survivors is still pretty poor as they run around for no reason or just stand there when being attacked.

As a Resident Evil on the whole though its great to play as there are too many imitators out there that have ripped off what Resident Evil started. Basically if you want to relive the glory days of Raccoon city then by all means pick this up and have a visit.