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Resident Evil: Director's Cut (PS)
by cj500
Resident evil was one of the first ever survival horror titles released for any computer game console. Although resident evil didn't technically invent the genre, it defiantly perfected it.
Bizarre murders have occurred through out the outskirts of a tiny city known as Raccoon city. The victims were apparently eaten....... The ... Raccoon police department decide enough is enough, and send in the special S.T.A.R.S team, to investigate who or what is causing these horrible deaths. The S.T.A.R.S bravo team are sent in first to investigate the area of which the attacks have taken place. After a while bravo team send a distress signal to the alpha team members. Alpha team are then sent into investigate bravo team's sudden disappearance, alpha team eventually find bravo team's downed helicopter and S.T.A.R.S handgun, with the hand still attached to it. Then suddenly alpha team are attacked from what looks like wild dogs, accept something is very different and unnatural about them. Alpha team manage to take cover and escape the beasts in a massive mansion. Now the survival horror has begun!
In the game you get to choose between two characters: Jill valentine (normal mode) and Chris Redfield (hard mode.) Their mission is to explore the creepy mansion and find out what happened to bravo team and what the hell attacked them in the first place! Resident evil is not quite a full action game, you will find any bullets you come across will be precious for you survival, and it's not always the best thing to waste your precious rounds on every single enemy you come across. In fact there are just as many puzzles as action set pieces in resident evil. But that's what the game is about, it's designed to make you tense and scare you with the enemies you face and the many traps in the mansion you come across. This is why there are many times you find yourself out of ammo or with very little amount left. The game does this to make you tense and to make you fear what's round the corner. There are puzzles which if you get wrong can kill you, traps which if are set off can kill you and of course the many different unnatural creatures roaming the mansion can kill you!
Resident evil is such a different and amazing game to play, even now the only good survival horror titles I can think of is the resident evil games and the silent hill ones. Thanks to the tense atmosphere the game brilliantly generates, from the creepy mansion, the enemies and the music. You will find it hard to sleep for weeks! But once you complete the game, you will want to do it all over again.
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Resident Evil 3 (PS)
by sparkymarky1973
Subtitled Nemesis after the big bad hulking monster that stalks you for much of the game, Resident Evil 3 was the third installment of the franchise on the PS One and the last proper sequel to appear for several years. It would not be until much later that we would finally get Resident Evil 4 and 5 though there were several inferior ... 'sequels' in between including Code Veronica which attempted to continue the series in a kind of interlude between the official chapters!
Nemesis is set in and around events in Resident Evil 2 and features a return for Jill Valentine whom players were able to control in the first game. Jill is caught up in the secondary outbreak and finds herself linking up with a group of mercenaries sent in to Racoon City with a hidden agenda as she attempts to find a way to leave the city. Along the way, she learns that a bounty has been put on her head to stop her from telling all she knows of Umbrella's experiments to the world and that Nemesis is a new variant of the Tyrant Bio weapon from the first game that has specific instructions to find and wipe out all the surviving members of The S.T.A.R.S Task force that includes Jill Valentine. The game is extremely tense and a rollercoaster ride from start to finish with more than one instance where I nearly shat myself as Nemesis burst through a wall and began his pursuit. For Nemesis in the first stages is impossible to kill and is a double hard b******d and the only thing you can do is......RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Unlike in previous games, you only get to play the game from Jill's perspective though there is a short sequence where you control one of the mercenaries as he hunts for a vacine to cure Jill when she falls prey to a viral infection. It is during this search that the events in RE2 occur and when you begin the game again as Jill, the story leaps forward again to take place after RE2 has ended.
Once again this is a true masterpiece of survival horror and a genuine classic game that never gets boring. Completingf the game opens up costume changes and a mini-game and you can also unlock endings that tell you what happened to the various survivors from RE1! It is not quite as accomplished as RE2 but Nemesis comes very close and the big bad monster who stalks you with a huge great whopping rocket launcher for much of the game is truly terrifying|!
All in all, this is a tremendous gaming experience and to be reccommended to anyone who has not played these early games!
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Resident Evil: Director's Cut (PS)
by sparkymarky1973
This is the Directors Cut of the original game and a classic on the original Sony PS One console that is sdtill as much fun to play today as it was on first release. Everyone knows the plot by now or has at least seen the movie but for those who haven't, these are the basics....
You play one of two S.T.A.R agents, a special ... Task Force based in Racoon City, called out to investigate strange happenings in a mansion on the outskirts of the city. Your helicopter is brought down and you are forced to take refuge inside when you are set upon by savage dogs. Once inside, you quickly determine that the mansion is owned by The Umbrella Corporation and that they have been conducting experiments with something called The T-Virus in the labs under the house. But now, that virus has broke lose with devastating consequences and not all of your team are playing on your side!!!
This is one of the original Survivor Horror games and is still one of the best with some great shock moments and lots of zombie blood and gore! Along the way you will also encounter zombie sharks, killer plants, giant spiders and of course lots of walking dead as well as a big boss character who is a bit of a frakker to beat unless you are quick with your thumbs!
Seeing the story from two sifdes is also a very clever and unique idea whicxhj adds extra longevity to the game. The script is very chesey in places and the voice-acting is often non-existant but this still one of the best older games around and is not to be dismissed easily.
A whole host of sequels and inferior games based on this premise followed in the wake of Resident Evil's success and of course there are the books, films, action figures etc that all go along with it. But the original Resident Evil still packs a punch and it is well worth digging it out if you still have a console that will play it!!
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