Mod Spotlight: Resident Evil Mortal Night
Before the horrors of the Baker Family and their wretched mansion in RE7, before the terrible mess that was Resident Evil 5 and 6, and just before the whole series was turned on its head in Resident Evil 4, the two most terrifying RE games of the original PlayStation line were Resident Evil 2 and 3. Resident Evil 2 was one of the scariest PS games in the late 90s, possibly only overcome by the utterly legendary Silent Hill.
It seems that the fan community for Resident Evil 2, perhaps very much unlike Silent Hill, is still incredibly active, and not to mention the mod community. Examples include Urban Chaos, which features new and hand-crafted environments, and Requiem of Spies, one of the first RE2 mods.
The most recent of RE2 total conversion mods (to my knowledge) is a game called Mortal Night, which tells an extended story of HUNK, the black-clad USS agent assigned to look for the G-virus specimen and bring it back to Umbrella hands.
Here’s Residence of Evil attempting to play Resident Evil 2: Mortal Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdlr0uo1Aq8
What we know so far
- Resident Evil: Mortal Night has had a few versions lurking out there. The first version of MN was more action-packed, in the vein of the later titles like RE4. However, with the upcoming release of version 2.00, the game will have nothing to do with survival-action, more focused on trying to actually survive a harrowing, zombie-infested Raccoon city.
- The game in its recent version has sought to become very similar to Resident Evil 2: working typewriters, less ammo, and a creeping feeling that the game will never let up on you.
- The game has three new modes:
- A 4th survivor Mode remake (taken from RE2’s original 4th Survivor) as a prologue;
- The Labyrinth Extra Mode demo–which will be released in future updates; and
- Doom mode, a bonus mode wherein the Doomguy will be playable in Episode 1, with new weapons and soundtrack. (!!!)
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