You’re down to your last few VP70 bullets. The Licker on the ceiling of the STARs corridor is scuttling rapidly towards you. Somewhere in the distance, you hear the increasingly loud bootsteps of the tyrannical Mr. X. Originally released in 2019, Resident Evil 2 Remake, particularly on the higher difficulty settings, can be one of the toughest survival horror games on PC. But with RE9 presumably in the works and the possibility of a Code Veronica remake lingering in the air, Capcom’s reimagined version of RE2 has just been transformed into one of the hardest PC games, period.
If you’re not familiar with BioRand, it’s one of the greatest and nastiest Resident Evil mods in history. Created by an incredibly talented collective of programmers, testers, and texture artists, the mod ‘randomizes’ the world of RE, chaotically remixing familiar locations, items, and enemies into often brutally difficult ‘new’ versions of the classic horror games.
Let’s say you’ve played Resident Evil 2 Remake a dozen times. You know there’s a box of handgun rounds in the RPD’s west wing briefing room, and just outside it, four zombies roaming the corridor. With BioRand installed, those four zombies could be four G Mutants, or four Lickers, or four Mr. Xs. If you manage to pick up the handgun ammo, the mod will randomize it into a blue herb.
Pickups are randomized. Enemies are randomized. Even doors are chopped, changed, and flipped on their head – that little office parallel to the RPD main hall that you can get into with the Spade Key, maybe, with the randomizer, you can only unlock it with the much harder-to-find Diamond Key, or maybe it has no lock on it at all. This video from veteran Resident Evil speedrun and streamer ‘Bawkbasoup’ pretty much summarizes the brilliance of the BioRand experience.
Previously available for the original Resident Evil trilogy, Code Veronica, and the remake of RE4, the latest version of BioRand for RE2 Remake is finally here. It’s still in beta, so the team warns that there could be some bugs, but if you want to try this one for yourself, head here.
Otherwise, you might want to play some of the best survival games, or maybe the best zombie games on PC today.
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