Players control eight characters with unique abilites. [11], Later that year the game was renamed Biohazard Network. After that, the characters must make it through the city. The controls and gameplay are similar to the Resident Evil remake, which was exclusive to the Nintendo GameCube, with quite a few adjustments. This time, it had been changed to Biohazard Outbreak (Resident Evil Outbreak outside Japan),[14] and the number of scenarios was reduced to the five scenarios. ", "E3 2002: Resident Evil Online first look", "Resident Evil Outbreak online doubts for Europe", "Resident Evil Outbreak offline in Europe", "Resident Evil Outbreak for PlayStation 2", "Resident Evil Outbreak for PlayStation 2 Reviews", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resident_Evil_Outbreak&oldid=974305803#David_King, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 August 2020, at 07:06. Make every riddle evil in the Jester Evil Costume! Doctor Evil! The beginning of Outbreak is set a couple of days after the initial outbreak of the T-virus in Raccoon City, moments before the crisis further escalates into complete chaos. I didn't spend six years in evil medical school to become Mister Evil! [19], Eurogamer was disappointed with Capcom's failure to establish online support for the European market at a time when the PlayStation 2's online community was threatened with the expected rise in the Xbox's popularity with the upcoming release of Halo 2, stating that an Outbreak was "designed from the ground up to be a co-operative multiplayer game for four players" and questioning if a network-less game would be of interest to players. Capcom shut down the American servers for Outbreak on December 31, 2007, and the Japanese servers on June 30, 2011, ending official online capabilities.[6]. Free Mode took place in a lobby and allowed players to create their own games, scenarios, and difficulty level. If acquired, these items unlock new costumes and the option to listen to their ad-libs. The game has five scenarios, each of which has an event checklist consisting of special actions that the player must perform to reach 100% completion. A few Pictures of David King. Resident Evil Outbreak is a survival horror video game with online playability for the PlayStation 2.Initially released in 2003, it was developed by Capcom Production Studio 1 and was the first entry in the Resident Evil video game series to feature cooperative gameplay and online multiplayer support, although online support was not available for the PAL versions of the game. It was set during the same general time period as Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.

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