Is a Resident Evil 2 remake in the works? *UPDATED 12/08/2015*

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This article was originally posted yesterday, however since then there has been a MASSIVE development. Take a look at the video below:

In the time since posting the original story, the Capcom team have now confirmed the Remake is in development! No date for it's release yet, however expect to hear more over the coming months. This is possibly the greatest announcement they could have made this year. The original story follows below.

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In recent years the team over at Capcom have been working on remastering some of their original games within the Resident Evil series. First off was Resident Evil Remastered, which is soon to be followed by Resident Evil 0. Resident Evil was previously remastered for the GameCube, giving it a fresh lick of paint on its now out-dated graphics. Released in January of this year (2015) it not only give the graphics another fresh lick of paint, but added in a few extras to give the game that little bit more than just being a HD version.

Jump forward to recently when it was announced they would be giving the same treatment to Resident Evil 0, which features Rebecca Chambers and Billy Coen. This was announced in a similar fashion to Resident Evil, through a video announcement. However in recent months, a few cryptic things have been posted over on the Resident Evil Facebook Page.

This came quite quickly after the announcement and considering the way they have been working, it wouldn't be surprising if it did come, however it wasn't expected to be so soon. Resident Evil 2 is without a doubt, my favourite entry in the entire series and has been the subject of petitions to get a remake done for years. It now seems like the Capcom team is finally trying to reach out and listen to its fans:

Now judging by the posts made by the Resident Evil team (especially that one) it would be quite obvious it is at least being discussed! This is quite some announcement and tease, so now all we're waiting for is an official one. Do you think it will be coming a while after Resident Evil 0, or do you think it's been in the works for a lot longer than that? Personally I think it's been in the works for a while and due to it being the epitome of the Resident Evil series, they are trying to make it perfect before releasing any sort of announcement. Let us know your feedback in the comments below!

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Fantastic Bore

(This post will contain spoilers for the recently released Fantastic Four film)

On Friday (7th August) me and my better half went to see what we thought would be a better remake of what was a flop of a film. Fantastic Four had been one of our favourite childhood cartoons and with the 2005 being so poorly received, we didn't think we'd be loosing out on much by going to view the reboot. How wrong we were.

The film starts off strong, showing how Reed Richards starts out in school, being the nerd in the class, however it deteriorates very quickly from there. Within the first 20 or so minutes, he becomes best friends with Ben Grimm, by simply trying to steal from his familys scrapyard and asking him if he would like to see his experiment. From this point onwards, it was all downhill for the film.

Until about an hour in to the film, we are yet to witness any of the characters powers. The main portion of this film has consisted of Reed becoming noticed for his work and building the machine to a larger proportion than his experiment. The story drags this out for much longer than it needed to, with no real progression being made as the character development is incredibly poor. Once they eventually get around to gaining their powers (through a section with lasts all of 10 minutes) it quickly jumps forward in time to when they are all in total control. This again all goes back to the film having little to no character development. At this point me and Matt both start looking at each other, giving glances of 'why the hell did we pay to watch this shit'. 

It quickly became apparent that this was coming close to the end of the film when a new group went back through a rebuilt machine and found Doom. This again had no story or explanation within the film as to why he had come to hate everyone and want to destroy the planet, but I guess the Script Writer wanted us to use our imagination a fair bit in this film. The Fantastic Four's battle with Doom was short, but not sweet as it was all about terrible dialogue with little action. 

All this being said, I am in no way saying the actors in the film were bad. They worked with what they were given and should they have been given better Scripts and Direction, then I firmly believe the film could have worked. They all played their roles well and fitted in to the nature of their characters. 

All in all I believe the current rating on IMDB of 4 (at the time of writing this article) is still being generous to the film. It is a massive disappointment to not recommend a film from one of my favourite companies (Marvel) but I really would not advise anyone to spend any money on watching this film. I think its time Marvel Studios absorbed it in to their running universe and if need be, reboot it again. 

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