Sweat refreshes them, Your flesh indulges them, Your blood soothes them, Your fear is your only ally (Resident Evil (PS))

Member Name: Goldensummit

Product:	Resident Evil (PS)
Date:	26/02/06 (153 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Classic | Gameplay | Horror | Story

Disadvantages: Horror | Scary | Not For Night Time | Not As Graphically Good As The Remake

This is a review about Resident Evil for the Playstation; it is a good game. This game is not short, it is very long, and scary, and also it has a good storyline. It also has bits which make you want to be scared, like when you enter a room, the door opens all freaky, like all resident evil games do.

The game is set in a Mansion that is in the middle of a wood, which is surrounded by Zombies. This is the first Resident Evil game made, but they have made spin off’s and obviously, they have made a prequel, which is Resident Evil 0, I will be writing a review on that in my time. At the beginning of the game, there is a cut scene, where your character and his/her team is being chased by a pack of zombie dogs, which have been infected with the T-Virus. The T-Virus, is a virus that when it has infected someone, they will mutate into a zombie. That is what the film is all about, so if you want more information, go watch the movie.

There are 2 characters you can be, there is Jill, who is a female agent, or you can be Chris, who is the man agent. If you are Jill, you get it easy, as you get to start off with a gun, but with very little ammo. But Chris has it hard, as he has no gun, only a knife. The stories are different, as you get further into the mystery of the mansion. Depending which character you are, is what you do, like Chris meets this women called Rebecca, and she is the main character in resident evil 0.

There are many different weapons in this game, but normally you only have a handgun, but you will probably find a shotgun or an automatic machine gun hiding somewhere, when you get further in the game. The game has lots of puzzles that need to be done, so you can unlock areas in the mansion, and also parts where you have to think fast, or you will be cut up to smithereens by the rolling ball with spikes all on it, which is set when you get to a certain part in the area.

This game is just not skill, it takes a lot of mind power to it, and strategic plans, you need to think ahead, or you will stand no chance in surviving this game. If you want to kill a zombie, you will have to shoot it ten times; do not let it get close to you, because if it does, you will start to get bitten by the zombie. When you shoot a zombie down, they are not necessarily dead, if they are on the floor, not dead, and you walk past them, they will grab your leg, and start to damage you badly.

There is quite some dialog in this game; it is one heck of a role play. It is great fun, especially when you don’t know what’s going to happen to you, and then you mysteriously disappear into this weird room, and then you get killed by some rolling boulder with spikes sticking out of it. It is really freaky when that happens. You talk a lot at the beginning of the game, you know like talking about what’s happened, what is going to happen, where who is, and that’s how you start your adventure off inside the Mansion.

The agents that have been sent down into the woods, are called S.T.A.R.S. soldiers, who are a special selected team that are meant to deal with this type of stuff, but in the game resident evil 2, there are no S.T.A.R.S. agents left, that’s why the game has different people in. This game is set inside a massive mansion, each resident evil game is set in its own area, Resident Evil Zero, is set in the woods, where you start out in. Resident Evil is set in a Mansion, Resident Evil 2 is set out in the town, where it has barley begun, and Resident Evil Nemesis (Resident Evil 3) is also set in town, but like everyone is infected.

The graphics are not bad, and so it is a not bad game graphically. It makes the world of difference, with the smoothness of the people’s skin, and the grittiness of all the zombies, great stuff there. The game is very enjoyable, it has loads of twists, and loads of places where you just don’t know what is going to happen; now that makes a great game.

The game is very original, it is one of the first horror games like this all about zombies that was ever made. It is on loads of other consoles, like the sega saturn, so you can’t really say that you don’t have the console to own this game. The game is very addictive, with all the tension that lies within this game, you can be playing it for hours. This game will last longer then you think, even though you don’t think it will, as you might play this type of game all night. Which I don’t recommend you not to do, as you WILL have NIGHTMARES, which is a bad thing.

This game is quite difficult in its own way; it needs a lot of mind power to overcome some of the obstacles that lay around in the Mansion, also strategic manoeuvres to get around certain areas, without plummeting/gunned down to death. There are voices in this game, but not all of it is done in them, in the cut scenes / main scenes, there is, but other then that, it is in the old regular worded form. The music of the game is not bad, not much though, it is very scary, and sometimes it can freak you out, personally, it doesn’t with me. The sound effects are great, with all the screaming, and the grunts coming from the zombies, they probably plotting against you or some crap like that, which you don’t need to worry about until they actually come to kill you, then you really want to start thinking of panicking, and running for your life.

This game is great value, it costs around £10, if you can find it. You can find this game on any game website, well most, only if they have it in stock, it is useful to know if they do have it in stock or not. I shall give this game a 5 star, as it might not be as graphically good as the remake, but I still liked the game because of the role play, and all the shooting, and all the grunting from the zombies, and all the zombie bosses. Just also to let you know, this game is rated 15, because it is very violent, and has some adult content to it also, not best for people to play this game, that are much younger then the rating.

DON’T GET SCARED!!!!

Summary: A great horror, a masterpiece game