Resident Evil 2 2019 Vs. The Evil Within 2, Who Did It Better?

Resident Evil 2 2019 recently released and it has been a smash hit. With 3 million copies shipped and over 1800 years worth of play time, a lot of gamers are enjoying Capcom's latest survival-horror title. However, how does it compare to The Evil Within 2, the franchise started by the director of the very first Resident Evil Shinji Mikami? Does The Evil Within 2 toppled Resident Evil 2 2019 or did Capcom's latest game showcase why Resident Evil is known as the king of survival-horror?

[DarkOcelet]

Just got back to TEW 2 again and finished it on Akumu difficulty yesterday since they added it in an update recently. Took me 21 hours, what an awesome game. I haven't picked up Resi 2 yet but will do soon. All I can say is its a great time to be a survival horror fan. Would definitely recommend picking up Resi 7/TEW 1,2 and Alien Isolation if you are craving some good horrific time.

[Blu3_Berry]

Wait, did they really add an update of Akumu mode to The Evil Within 2? I did not hear about this update at all.

EDIT: Holy sh*t, they really did add this as an update. I had no idea about it. I personally loved The Evil Within 2 and is severely underrated. It improved so much on the first game. I wished that Akumu Mode was added from the start when the game first launched, because personally I found Akumu mode a more interesting experience then Classic Mode on The Evil Within 2. Man I'm gonna have to start up Akumu Mode on TEW2 at some point now.

[DarkOcelet]

Yea! The update was recent and I didn't even realize it was updated cause I saw no news about it. Classic mode is nice but it was no Akumu so as a person who loved Akumu so much in tew 1, this was a great surprise. Also they added Cheats (Inf health, inf Stamina and one hit kill) in the game as well if u wanna have fun and mess around and they don't disable achievements so if you wanna get the achievements easily, you can do that but i don't recommend that cause it takes away from the fun of actually beating those achievements with your skill.

[--bienio--]

So you telling me it actually worth to try TEW2??

[UltraNova]

Fuck yeah it is! The best survival horror game this gen

[DarkOcelet]

Hell yea it is worth it. So is TEW 1 but I can understand if people dislike TEW 1, it was rough around the edges but for me personally, its definitely one of my favorite survival horror games of all time.

[Sirk7x]

Evil Within 2 is really good. Better than the first.

[Bronxs15]

I have this game but didn’t play it yet. What’s this akumu mode about? Never heard. Is it some kind of new game plus thing?

[DarkOcelet]

Basically, anything in Akumu mode kills you in one hit so there will be trial and error in certain segments of the game as it forces you to memorize boss patterns, enemy patterns and where they spawn in certain situations etc. But with the abilities you unlock in the game, you will easily finish most of the game without too much trouble. It might be challenging but later on, you will become insanely powerful if you explore the game and gather resources. Also, the game autosaves frequently so you won't have to go back far if you die. Also if all this sounds daunting or scary to ya, then you can just enable in-game cheats (Infinite health, stamina, one shot kill) and they won't void any end game unlockables or achievements but where is the fun in that lol.

[Blu3_Berry]

Both games are extremely well done. Personally I gotta give the edge to Resident Evil 2. It just does everything so perfectly and it truly feels like a horror/survival game. Having tight narrow hallways with zombies blocking your path being forced to take them down or stagger them to proceed. Also with Mr. X stomping around he constantly keeps you on your toes when around and it's so nerve wrecking.

I also personally love the atmosphere as it had this dark dreary feeling to it where as with TEW2 it was more open hub-like areas. It was very easy to run away from enemies and the stealth is honestly a bit broken. There wasn't as much tension going around at times. The thing I do prefer about TEW2 is the upgrade system as you feel like you get stronger as you level up your abilities and arsenal (though I'm a bit biased on that part as I always loved having some kind of upgrade system in games).

Both games are excellent in my eyes but I do prefer Re2 over TEW2.

[Loadedklip]

I love TEW2 but yea I like RE2 remake a bit more so far. Both are fantastic.

[FrostXVenom]

Both are amazing,both have great atmosphere.i guess being a new game evil with 2 have better game play and world design.In terms of sound design and visual RE 2 wins.Both games are coming from re devs anyways.

[Baza]

TEW2 is very underrated. I just finished it and really enjoyed my experience. The witch lady sequences are some of the scariest in gaming. Terrifying!! Looking forward to jumping into RE2 soon

[zsquaresoff]

Both are good but what i loved about TEW2 is that you can Stealth Kill enemies even if you're low on Ammo. All you can do in RE2 is shot once and runaway.

[2pacalypsenow]

And they don't take 8 headshots to kill, even on the hardest difficulty.

[MrVux000]

Hunk is all need to say.

[Spurg]

The story of RE2 doesn't live up to today's standards. The Evil within 2 was better designed with a progression system, an semi open world and a good story to boot.

[pietro1212]

Do any survival horror games stories do? Aside from a few of the Silent Hill titles most survival horror games have pretty mediocre stories.

[-Foxtrot]

The Evil Within 2 is one of the most underrated games of this gen

[Shiken]

I enjoyed TEW1, but skipped 2. All this positive feedback is making me consider trying it put.

[Sirk7x]

2 felt much better than the first.

[HeisenbergX]

The Evil within 2 ... was mediocre trash IMO it just wasn't scary and it was too ridiculous.

[oIITSBIIo]

Just finished RE2 pretty good game, 'I've tried TEW2 for about 2 hours it didn't grab my attention I might give another try after reading all the praising here.

[Skankinruby]

Evil Within 2 is in my backlog I'll probably get to it soon, liked the first one a lot. Haven't finished RE 7 yet either, game is a bit confusing for my taste. I'm guessing RE 2 is even more challenging as far as puzzles go

[gleepot]

RE2, no question. Evil Within was fine and stuff but this is no contest.

[BlackTar187]

Resident evil 2 remake is beautiful

[KyRo]

The Tew series don't get enough credit. That being said I think the open nature, semi open wolrd/aeras of the second one didnt work as well as the more linear game before it. Still a great game but you can tell it never had the production values of RE2 either. Both good games overall and great for us horror fans.

[AK91]

It’s mixed for me TEW2 is clearly the more ambitious game that tries to move the survival genre forward but is held back on being forced to run on an awful game engine which gives the game (and its predecessor) horrible technical issues.

RE 2 Remake is clearly the better funded game that was given more time and a far more developer friendly engine. It looks and runs leagues better than TEW2 but a majority of it is a retread of the previous classic and apparently they took out content rather then add to it.

[zombiewombie]

I enjoyed both buy RE 2 wins this. TEW 2 has some clunky controls and animations that bring it down.

[Kosic]

I found tew2 to be a copy of ideas from many games and didn't perfect any of them. Felt like it wanted to be re4, with silent hill and the last of us. But felt clunky, and poorly done.

Only played re2 demo, so can't really be fair in comparing. But didn't really think much of tew2, other than it was way better than the first.