Seeing as how we're all zombie fans here...

A quick update for a few of you people,

At one point in time, Resident Evil 2 was a completly different game. It had all new areas, better zombies (fat ones, fast ones, all that), new enemies, and even a few new charactrers. (A rookie officer named "Roy" and an all new player character named "Elza Walker"). Leon S Kennedy was still in this game, as was most of the other characters, minus a few things like not being evil, being evil, looking better, and whatnot.

Then, in 1997, the unthinkable happened. A lot of the RE2 team defected to Squaresoft, and Parasite Eve was born. Capcom went >=(, and scrapped RE2, now RE1.5, and started the RE2 we know today.

Now, many people, including me, think 1.5 could have been better than 2. Quite a few of us still want to play it.

Well, two days ago, the unthinkable happened.

No, we didn't get 1.5, but someone found almost all the level background images from 1.5 hidden away in the Biohazard 2 trial.

Under our noses.

For years.

Well, to make a long story short, we now have 85% of the levels on our hard drives. I'm here to share those with you.


http://www.exploding-dog.com/re15.rar - All the background images we have so far.


LINK: First topic about this breakthrough

LINK: Bioflames, site about RE 1.5

I found everything i could find on this thing a loong time ago. One of the reasons the project was scrapped was also cause it was scary but in a bad way is wut capcom said. Some of the features that never made it into RE2 that i think were great ideas were that u could pick up clothing and wear it and not only would it give u more inventory space, but it was also like a flak jacket, giving u less damage from zombies. Leons voice was different, sounded like the guy who played chris in RE1, the scenery was different with office buildings and stuff, there were giant ape-like monsters, William Birkin only stayed in one form, they had this nice idea that u could lock/unlock doors and if u didnt lock 'em zombies would get in, if a fat zombie was eating u its weight would make u fall even if u were fine, and there was a shooting range, yes a shooting range. Idk y they didnt keep some of this stuff in RE2, probably woulda made the game much better than it is now. Also, Elza was part of a biker gang and Leon wasn't a rookie cop in 1.5.

Alos, in RE1.5, i think the RPD looks more like a real police station than the one in RE2 and i think Raccoon City in 1.5 looks more like a city than a town wit 2 story buildings in RE2. Theres some game play footage i saw for 1.5, and judging by it, i dont think they were close to finishing it cause the guns all sounded the same, especially the shotty which had that lil pea shooter sound that the beretta had in RE1 original.

I've got to go buy resident evil

U gonna hav to buy ALL the RE games now. Even the one for gameboy

That's funny, I coined the name Resident Evil 1.5 on my RE website back during the production of the current RE2. Memories

I remeber the day RE2 came out. Man oh man, i was like WHOA !!!! its in the city now!!!!! And thats wut started the infamous fame of Raccoon City and Leon and Claire. Plus the licker, wut a badass monster.

Just posted this over here: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=704981

Awesome news, thanks for the heads-up.

I FOUND A COPY OF RE 1.5 ON EBAY FOR $58. Now thats a fucked up price but the guy says its because the game is rare and all.

Cool pictures, they seem to be significantly higher quality than the background images used in Resident Evil 2. I can see at least a few of those places made it into the game.

For instance, I recognize the lab area from RE2, but it looks much lower quality in the finished game. Ah well, guess the Playstation could only handle so much, it would have been cool for them to "upgrade" it for the PC release though (which I have).