Resident Evil 1.5

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(Text taked from: http://www.bioflames.net/)
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Ok...As everybody probably knows - Resident evil 1.5 was supposed to be released as Resident evil 2 way back in 1997 - But this original version was scrapped very near completion - At 70-80 % --Why-- The official word from Capcom stated that it was scrapped because it played to much like the first Resident evil (Like that should be something bad!) - So Capcom started completly over again and made the RE 2 that we now know and love .... Anyway - This unreleased version called Resident evil 1.5 had some really cool weapons enemies and scenes that never made it to the new version of RE 2 .

In RE 1.5 the main characters was Leon S. Kennedy (Same guy as in RE 2) And Elza Walker, A young motorcycle daredevil (She was replaced by Claire Redfield in RE 2) There also was another character that never made it to the new game - DJ - He supposably was a cop working in the RPD - Other characters that was in RE 1.5 and made it to RE 2 was Sherry Birkin - Annette Birkin - William Birkin (In human and mutated form) - Chief Brian Irons - He was a good guy and played the part of the wounded cop in RE 1.5 - Ada Wong - John - He was named Robert Kendo in RE 2 - And finally Marvin Branagh - Who was playable instead of Ada Wong in Leon's scenario (In Elza's scenario Sherry Birkin was playable just like in RE 2) - Ben was not in the game.
There were a lot more different enemies in RE 1.5 than in RE 2 - There were more types of zombies - The fat zombies - Skinny zombies - Running zombie - Crawling zombies - There even were zombies of different sexes and races - In the monster department we have a couple of interesting creatures that never made it to RE 2 - First we have the big "spider-man" monster which looks a little like a bigger version of the chimeras from RE 1 - Secondly we have the big gorilla look alike monsters - These came in two versions - The big boss gorillas and the small baby gorillas - Third we have the big crocodile monster - As you know this monster made it to RE 2 - But in RE 1.5 there were two different versions of it - The big one from RE 2 but also small baby crocodiles.
There also were many more weapons in RE 1.5 that never made it to RE 2 - Like the hand-grenades and some different automatic weapons that unfortunaly was scrapped in RE 2 - There also were safety wests that you could equip so that the enemy attacks made less damage - The enemies was also supposed to be able to rip your clothes - And you could get blood stained if you took out a zombie at point-blank range - The gore level were also higher than in RE 2 - The zombies virtually exploded in a rain of blood and guts when being hit by Leon or Elza's powerful weapons .

One of the biggest differences from RE 1.5 to RE 2 is the backgrounds - They are totally different - More modern looking than the backgrounds in RE 2 - If you have looked at the RE 1.5 pictures or movies you know what I am talking about - The RPD looks more like a real police department than the one we got in RE 2 - The RPD jail also looks more like a real jail - And the fact that there actually is zombies in the cells reaching out trying to grab you - Makes it look like one of the coolest places in RE 1.5 - RE 1.5 also seems to have more outdoor scenes just like in RE 3 - If you have seen the movies of RE 1.5 you have probably heard that the music also is somewhat different from RE 2 - The movies are not very long but you still can hear that the original music sounded really cool - The story of RE 1.5 was supposed to be more complicated as it included many more characters than the RE 2 story - As you now can understand - RE 1.5 is almost a totally different game than RE 2.
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