After we delighted fans in 1996 with the PC version of resident Evil In June, fans were waiting for the port of the 1998 Resident Evil 2 to appear on GOG. That day will soon come, as GOG has announced that Resident Evil 2 will appear on the website on 27.August.

GOG says this version of the game “fully reproduces the original elements of the game released in 1998.”

Similar to the GOG team with resident Evilthey’ve tweaked a few more things for the sequel to make it playable for modern PC gamers who may not have the patience to set everything up. This includes full support for Windows 10 and 11, 6 localizations of the game, new rendering options, improved volume and panning, reworked keybindings and audio settings, and more.

The team also saw fit to fix some of the original game’s bugs, including missing text, invisible diaries, and repeating sounds. Resident Evil 2 will also support modern controllers and for those who don’t like grinding, 4th Survivor and Tofu modes will be enabled from the start.

Of course, the obvious question now is when we can complete the trilogy of original games with Resident Evil 3: NemesisAs with the original announcement, RE3 is due to be released later this year, but no timeframe has been given yet. Other than that, we can probably expect the same improvements/fixes for Nemesis which we received with the first two entries.

You can pre-order the bundle that includes all three games at GOG.com. And if you’re curious, check out Aaron’s take on the GOG version of resident Evil.