Resident Evil
The Sega Saturn version, released in July 1997, added an unlockable battle mode in which the player must traverse through a series of rooms from the main game and eliminate all enemies within them with the…
Resident Evil is an adventure developed by Capcom Planning Room 2, released 25 July 1997 on Sega Saturn.
What Resident Evil is
Resident Evil is an adventure game developed by Capcom Planning Room 2 and released in 1997. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Sega Saturn only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On July 24, 1998, when a series of bizarre murders occur on the outskirts of the fictional Midwestern town of Raccoon City, the Raccoon City Police Department's S.T.A.R.S. team are assigned to investigate. After contact with Bravo Team is lost, Alpha Team is sent to investigate their disappearance. Alpha Team locates Bravo Team's crashed helicopter and land at the site, where they are suddenly attacked by a pack of monstrous dogs. After Alpha Team's helicopter pilot, Brad Vickers, panics and takes off alone, the remaining members of the team — Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Albert Wesker, and Barry Burton — are forced to seek refuge in a nearby abandoned mansion. Depending on which…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Resident Evil series
Resident Evil is the third of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. It arrived 8 months after Resident Evil. The next entry was Resident Evil: Director's Cut in 1997.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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