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.

When Spinners became the new form of conversion, the Chimera began creating Grims. 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 though it's possible that they have evolved beyond the need for cooling units.

Grims are created using Spinners. Spinners capture human hosts and weave cocoons around them. The cocoon slowly rebuilds the host and are converted into Grims. Grims provide the Chimera with a large and quickly-made attack force to subdue enemies.

Elite forms of Grims called Alpha Grims appear in the co-op campaign. These Alpha Grims are larger, stronger, brighter in appearance, and have a very strong resemblance to Gray Jacks. The cocoons of Alpha Grims are twice as big as regular Grim cocoons and look brighter in appearance. Also, Alpha Grims attack in numbers of between 3-5 at a time.



Possible connection to Gray Jacks
This new form of chimera seems to share some characteristics with the Gray Jack. The most prominent being the elongated arms and claws. Seeing as they have no cooling units it is safe to assume that they are also being cooked from the inside-out even at the moment of "birth". The Chimera seems to have eliminated the Gray Jack phase from their new hybrids. However, as Gray Jacks are an extremely aged Chimeran Hybrid,it is possible that 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 coincidence, Hale and the Specter team characters simply never met any Gray Jacks during the events of Resistance 2.

Tactics
Grims do not wear any armor, and are almost always can be killed with one hit. The Rossmore 238 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 and are quite fast, leaving the opportunity of retreat remote. Also in any difficulty, without wasting ammo, you can melee them when when they're in full charge killing them instantly. You can make a trap with the magnum's secondary fire to kill a group of Grims. When playing in co-op, Grims are often referred to as "Easy xp", mainly because if you have explosives, you can kill up to 25 Grims in a single shot.

Trivia

 * It's name, "Grim", means something dismal, forbidding, sinister or ghastly; hence the Grim's appearance.
 * The Grims awfully resemble "zombies" in certain movies such as 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead (remake).