AV Club: In remaking Resident Evil 2, Capcom couldve done so much more than what it did with the original back in 1998. It couldve given concessions to new players who wanted to fight off hundreds of undead monsters without worrying too much about managing ammo or healing herbs. It couldve introduced new retcons to foreshadow what happens to characters important to later games in the serieslike, say, longtime series villain Albert Wesker, who is completely absent here (as he was the first time around). Hell, it couldve even snuck in some timeline-breaking references to what happens in Resident Evil 4, since thats probably the game that Resident Evil 2 star Leon Kennedy is most famous for these days.
Source: N4G PC AV Club: Capcoms Resident Evil 2 remake is bold, confident, and unapologetically outdated