Grim

The Grim is a new strain of Chimera that appears in Resistance 2. The Grim has the appearance of a nude Hybrid, lacking cooling units. The Grim's main form of attack is to run at the player and melee him/her.

As the Grim lacks even a basic cooling unit, and since it runs quite fast, it can be assumed that the Grim is created to live for a few hours at most. Without the cooling units, these Chimera will overheat and die.

Grims are created using Spinners. Spinners capture human hosts and weave coccoons around the hosts. Then the hosts are converted into Grims. Grims provide the Chimera with a large and quickly-made attack force to subdue enemies. There is a tougher version of Grims called Alpha Grims that appear in the co-op campaign. Alpha Grims are larger, brighter in appearance, and have a very large amount of health.





Possible connection to Gray Jacks
This new form of chimera seems to share some characteristics with the Gray Jacks. The most prominent being the elongated arms and claws. Seeing as they have no cooling units it is same to assume that they are also being cooked from the inside-out even at the moment of "birth". The Chimera seemed to eliminated the Gray Jack phase from their new hybrids. It seems they still wanted a creature that causes highly infected and most likely fatal wounds in their enemies. Thus the Grim species was created. However, as Gray Jacks are an extremely aged Chimeran Hybrid, it is more likely that the Grims are a completely new Chimeran strain, and Gray Jacks have not appeared because the Hybrids in America have not aged to the point of outgrowing their bodies and becoming Gray Jacks-or simply that, by co-incidence, Hale and Co-op characters simply never met any Gray Jacks during the events of Resistance 2.

Tactics
The Grims do not wear any armor, and almost always can be killed with one hit. The Rossmore 236 or V7 Splicer is recommended. The main thing about these creatures to worry about is that they attack in swarms anywhere from a few, to up to 40 Grims. When playing in co-op, grims are often refered to as "Easy xp", mainly because if you have explosives, you can kill up to 25 grims in a single shot.