Resident Evil Outbreak was released by Capcom for PlayStation 2 in 2003 in Japan, where the series is known as Biohazard, and in 2004 internationally. It was the first Resident Evil title built around online cooperative play, following ordinary Raccoon City civilians during the outbreak. Its title screen voice announcement became a nostalgic cue for fans of that era, and clips of it now circulate in retrospectives, fan edits and soundboards as a shorthand for early 2000s survival horror.