Greetings, Horror gamers
This week, we will be talking about the horror survival game that not just defined the horror genre but also made the horror genre of video games popular to this day. I will speak to you about Resident Evil 1 from 2002. The game was produced by Capcom in 1996 and remastered in 2002; it was directed by Shinji Mikami and produced by Tokuro Fujiwara. The game’s setting takes us to the mid-western town of Raccoon City. Enter the roles of S.T.A.R.S Alpha team members Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine as they investigate the Arkley Forest and later, the Spencer mansion looking for the S.T.A.R.S Bravo Team.
They are not alone in the forest or the mansion; during the story, you also come across the company known as Umbrella. The two characters discover on their own adventures that Umbrella is not just a company that deals with the medical world.
They were also secretly developing Bio-organic-Weapons or BOW’s in a labs under the mansion. During the game, the two characters will discover that most of the bravo team were killed by the creatures or by a traitor on the Alpha team.
The two would find that the traitor was the Captain of the Alpha team, Albert Wesker. Wesker would be killed by a new type of BOW, the Tyrant. It would take a rocket launcher to take the beast down. The game was a blend of third-person shooting and horror that would test the player in several ways. They would also have to deal with finding weapons, medical supplies, and useful items that are used in the puzzles throughout the mansion.
The production for the game started in 1993; the idea for the game came from several horror and zombie films, such as The Shining and the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead, as a rather negative inspiration for the game. Mikami was opting for something like one of Gorge Romero’s zombie films. By December 1997, it made about 200,000,00 dollars with about 4 million copies of the game sold worldwide.
In my opinion of both games, both are a must-play for those who have not had a chance to play any of the classic horror games. I would also say that the story for the original game was very suspenseful, the remaster along with the cutscenes use of shadows and texture making the creatures and the mansion quite spooky. The remaster has about the same story and has been remastered all the way to 2019 for the Nintendo switch.
