while it lacks some of the features the original had such as the Zapping System, some areas and enemies were removed and interactions between each campaign streamlined, Resident Evil 2 delivers an solid experience with it's impressive level of polish, gameplay and survival horror mechanics, this is basically the perfect game in the genre in terms of pure design.

it does not serve as an replacement to the original in comparison to the likes of the first Resident Evil Remake in 2002 which blows the original game in 1996 completely out of the water but RE2 is an very good effort that stands tall in what an Remake should deliver although with some caveats here and there that could have been better.