Gothic, ornate, but just close enough to normality that it feels real, the Raccoon City Police Department building in Resident Evil 2 is one of the greatest settings in horror game history. But it didn't always look that way. Before RE2 made it to shelves back in 1998, another version of the game came close to completion. Starring a different-looking Leon Kennedy and a Claire Redfield prototype named Elza Walker, what fans now refer to as Resident Evil 1.5 was a very, very different game, with alternate locations, more guns, and expanded escort-quest sequences. Capcom scrapped this version, but it's since been rebuilt by fans - and a new, improved restoration is available right now.
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