Resident Evil 1.5!

In case you were living under a rock… It’s been leaked. I never thought this day would come. So far I’m just amazed. Maybe it’s because I was waiting for so long. But it’s a lot different in terms of visual style. Not that RE2 isn’t great the way it is. But this is an interesting trek through a Raccoon City that never was.

One feature I like is that if your character gets attacked they end up stained with blood that stays with you throughout the game. Why this was nixed in RE2 I don’t know. Maybe it was too gory? Overall the environments here are a lot more bloody compared to RE2. They really toned it down. There’s some very eerie music present in 1.5 as well.

The RPD looks more like a real police station. The RPD in RE2 was a repurposed museum. And Chief Irons was an obsessive collector of art with rather questionable taste in it. The factory area is a lot different too. I still can’t figure out why a factory would have a lobby that looks like a hospital waiting room. But this is Umbrella and I probably don’t want to know.

Marvin is savable. He gets infected by the T virus just like in RE2. But here you could get the vaccine and cure him. Irons isn’t a murderous lunatic. Robert Kendo is still Ada’s boyfriend John here. John’s shirt isn’t all yellowed and stained with blood. There are a few other changes. But the game is only playable. Not playable in its entirety. It’s not completely stable and certain things make it crash, such as trying to use some weapons. Also, many areas haven’t had their boundaries set yet and the puzzles are either completely non-functional or completing them has no effect. But it’s a really awesome experience for any die hard RE fan and I can’t wait until it has been completed.

If I’ve taken a lot of screens. It’s easier to just link them when I have a lot. It also makes posts quicker. That’s why I’ve been doing it lately. But I haven’t taken that many screens yet because I’ve been too busy exploring the areas. I’m just making this small post and a video post for now.

A little while ago I posted about the Coca Soda machines and signs removed from some versions of RE2. But in 1.5…

Leon ponders over whether he should get a diet Pepsi or a regular. Killing zombies does burn a lot of calories. But then again he had a big lunch…

And it’s literally a Pepsi machine! Then we got Coca Soda and Cho Cho Cola. Then all traces of their existence were wiped away. But they still put the Pepsi Logo back in Outbreak! But without the Pepsi brand name. I see what you did there Capcom. >>

Here are a few screens of the RPD prison. It’s far more realistic and detailed than what they went with.

Just a plain view of the prison from its entrance point:

Zombie prisoners! Their textures and weirdly synced animations show they they were not finished yet. And they can’t grab you or hurt you. They’re just for show at this point.

Inside of a cell. Pretty detailed but there are slight boundary issues in here. The toilet layers over you a bit. And it’s the only cell you can enter other than the one that's accessible via the debug menu.

But I don’t know if they are the same cell. The graphics are corrupted and the mirror is absent from above the sink. There also appears to be a metal pipe by the toilet. This is an inventory item in 1.5 but it has no use right now. It’s similar to the pole you use to break through the bricks in the fireplace in RE3. But the pipe by the toilet doesn’t look quite the same as the pipe in the inventory. Maybe it’s a crank?