Raccoon Police Station
The latter was designed and installed by the Umbrella Corporation to better facilitate Irons' duties within their clandestine research operations, as these sewer entrances allowed access to their secret underground laboratories.In the remake, however, the underground lab is accessed through a secret tunnel and office hidden by a large moving statue in the main hall of the RPD, which in the original game would only give you a key to some of the rooms in the station.During the September 1998 Raccoon City T-Virus outbreak, many of the series' central characters seek refuge within the precinct, including Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield.The station is temporarily used as a rallying point and temporary shelter for surviving citizens during the incident, including the survivors of Resident Evil Outbreak: File 2.Accompanying a delay and drastic revision of the game, with the original being referred to as Resident Evil 1.5, Mikami insisted the station's design be changed to that of a historic art museum that resembled a haunted mansion.[2] In a PC Gamer feature, journalist Andy Kelly described the station as a "great setting" for multiple reasons, citing its construction around a central hub, helping the player to create a mental map of its layout.Calling the main hall "far too big", he stated that it left the player feeling "vulnerable, exposed, and daunted", describing it as an unexpected rug-pull after fighting through the zombie outbreak outside.