Zach Cregger Confirms His ‘Resident Evil’ Film Shares a Timeline With ‘Resident Evil 2’ — but the Trailer Tells a Different Story

There is a very specific version of Resident Evil that fans recognize immediately. It is not just the characters or the monsters, but the conditions: the darkness, the rain, the slow collapse of a city that is falling apart. Resident Evil 2 specifically commits to that atmosphere so completely that it becomes inseparable from the story it is telling. You do not just remember the events that unfold in Raccoon City, you remember how it feels to move through it, and how every part of the game — environments included — fight against you.