Resident Evil Requiem review: Racoon City’s swansong is terrifying and mournful

In his own world, Leon S. Kennedy is a survivor too. One of the two heroes at the center of Resident Evil Requiem, the latest chapter of Capcom’s long-running survival horror saga, Kennedy has lived through hell. On his first day as a rookie cop in the fictional metropolis of Raccoon City, he watched as locals were torn apart in the streets by zombies born from American bioweaponry. Kennedy only narrowly escaped town one day before it was wiped off the map by the United States government, plunging Raccoon City into darkness under the shadow of a mushroom cloud, leaving little more than a crater behind. As far as we know, he never returned to the place he swore an oath to protect. He never reckoned with the anguish he experienced there. He never stopped to remember the thousands that didn’t make it out in time. That is, until Resident Evil Requiem.