Resident Evil 2, known in Japan as , is a 1998
survival horror video game originally released for the
PlayStation. Developed by
Capcom as the second installment in the
Resident Evil series, its story takes place two months after the events of the first game,
Resident Evil. It is set in
Raccoon City, an American community whose residents have been transformed into
zombies by the T-virus, a
biological weapon developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella. In their escape from the city, the two protagonists,
Leon S. Kennedy and
Claire Redfield, encounter other survivors, and are confronted by William Birkin, the mutated creator of the even more powerful G-virus.