Parasite Eve
Parasite Eve is a survival horror role-playing video game developed and published by SquareSoft (now Square Enix) for the Sony PlayStation console. The game follows the story of Aya Brea, a rookie NYPD officer…
Parasite Eve is an adventure developed by Square, released 29 March 1998 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.
What Parasite Eve is
Parasite Eve is an adventure game developed by Square and released in 1998. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Parasite Eve is a horror RPG that follows the story of NYPD rookie Aya Brea. On the night of an opera performance in Manhattan, a singer named Melissa undergoes a drastic and horrifying transformation, causing a fire that kills most of the audience. Aya, who was attending the performance, witnesses the incident and discovers that Melissa's transformation is related to a phenomenon known as mitochondria. As the story unfolds, Aya becomes entangled in a battle against Eve, a being born from Melissa's mitochondria. Eve is determined to wipe out humanity and create a new dominant species, and Aya must stop her before it's too late. Along the way, Aya discovers the truth about her own unique…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Parasite Eve series
Parasite Eve is the first of 3 entries we hold in the Parasite Eve series. The next entry was Parasite Eve II in 1999.
How it was received
Parasite Eve holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average. Players rate it 71, 11 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10 hrs.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Parasite Eve yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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