YouTube's Rod Lima has remade Resident Evil 2 using the gameplay style of Resident Evil 4.
The original game's fixed camera angles have been replaced by 3D environments such as the ones seen in the RE2 sections of Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles.
Rod Lima used sound effects and cutscenes from the original game coupled with enivronments and character models from the Wii game. He then patched in new inventory and weapons systems.
It's not clear whether Rod Lima intends to carry on with the project, but it seems unlikely. He said:
"I'm not planning on do a Resident Evil 2 remake, (there's already other groups taking it seriously). I made this only to see some codes actually working. And as the result was good, I decided to do a video. Just that.
"I was fooling around with Darkside Chronicles animations. I started doing some basic moves, did some inventory HUD, some inventory weapons… Anyway it is pretty good. I'm not planning on do something big, but is fun to walk around on Raccoon City, RE4 style."
While the original Resident Evil was re-released for GameCube, Resident Evil 2 has not been actively upgraded. Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi told GameSpot in September 2012 that a remake was possible if there was enough demand for it.
