Review | resident evil live in hong kong is scarily good fun

“You go first,” comes the call from at least one of our party. I could not tell you who. We’re in an office block in Kwun Tong, East Kowloon, but the only business we’re in is being scared.

Advertisement This is Resident Evil 2: Infection, Hong Kong’s first immersive live-action version of the video game – opened just in time for Halloween. For those not familiar with the game,

it’s a survival horror series – it actually coined the term for the first game in the series back in 1996. The chances are that you are familiar with it on the big screen. The series – six

films and counting over the last 14 years – has generated upwards of US$1.2 billion worldwide, the most for a video-game spin-off franchise. There’s no denying the cultural sway of the

_Resident Evil_ series – Japanese video game giant Capcom’s gift keeps on giving. Advertisement According to reports earlier this year it is being turned into a TV show by Netflix;, there is

another film on the way; and it has inspired board games and even a Tokyo restaurant.