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Even five years after release, Resident Evil 2 Remake<\/a> remains the gold standard video game remake.<\/p>\n

And it’s not just<\/em> one of the best video game remakes, but one of the best Xbox One games<\/a>\/one of the best PS4 games<\/a>, full stop. What’s more, now that it’s available on both Game Pass and PlayStation Plus<\/a> (not to mention just being cheap because it’s somehow half a decade old), it’s more accessible than ever.<\/p>\n

And access is the key word here, because, if you couldn’t tell already, Resident Evil 2 Remake is a very special game for me. As an only child I never had an older sibling to help my smooth young brain through the hard parts of games (or buy them for me from the shop when I wasn’t old enough), so I don’t have any nostalgia for the 1998 version, or any of the other legendary horror series’ for that matter.<\/p>\n

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Even five years after release, Resident Evil 2 Remake remains the gold standard video game remake. And it’s not just one of the best video game remakes, but one of the best Xbox One games\/one of the best PS4 games, full stop. What’s more, now that it’s available on both Game Pass and PlayStation Plus (not to mention just being cheap because it’s somehow half a decade old), it’s more accessible than ever. And access is the key word here, because, if you couldn’t tell already, Resident Evil 2 Remake is a very special game for me. As an only child I never had an older sibling to help my smooth young brain through the hard parts of games (or buy them for me from…<\/p>\n

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