10 Weird Versions Of Iconic Games You Didn't Know Existed
5. Resident Evil 2 On Game.Com
After its huge success in 1998 on the PlayStation, Capcom’s survival horror masterpiece Resident Evil 2 got a string of fairly consistent ports. It also got a wildly different remake, built from the ground-up… and it’s not the one you’re thinking of.
At the end of the 90s, Tiger Electronics tried to make their way into the handheld console market with the Game.com. Interestingly, it had a touch-screen and internet connectivity way before either were standard features. Unfortunately these things couldn’t save it for being an ugly, underpowered turd which has been rightfully lost to the sands of time.
More than half of the grand total of 21 games released for it were ports but perhaps the boldest was Resident Evil 2.
Ripping apart this clunky, monochromatic version seems cruel because it’s already fighting from behind considering the hardware. Sure, it helps to have the original game as context because port severely slims things down (even outright cutting one of the two playable characters) but, in all fairness, it does reflect the majority of the iconic rooms of the RPD quite well.
The grainy visuals and lack of music add to the weird otherness to the game, instilling its own kind of horror.
Out of all the ports of RE2, this is by far the one you’d have the least fun with but it’s hard to outright hate something that managed to get so much out of so little.