Resident Evil Zero
Resident Evil Zero is a third-person survival horror video game and a prequel to the first Resident Evil. The gameplay remains largely the same as previous entries in the series but also introduces what it…
Resident Evil Zero is an adventure developed by Capcom Production Studio 3, released 12 November 2002 on Nintendo GameCube.
What Resident Evil Zero is
Resident Evil Zero is an adventure game developed by Capcom Production Studio 3 and released in 2002. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On July 23, 1998, special police STARS Bravo team is sent in to investigate a series of grisly murders in the Arklay Mountains region outside of Raccoon City. On the way to the scene, Bravo's helicopter malfunctions and is forced to crash-land in the forest. The team soon discover an overturned military police transport truck, along with the mutilated corpses of two officers. The team split up and Bravo team's field medic, Rebecca Chambers, finds a train stopped in the middle of the forest. Rebecca soon discovers that the train, the Ecliptic Express, is infested with zombies.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Resident Evil series
Resident Evil Zero is the 22nd of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. It arrived 8 months after Resident Evil. The next entry was Resident Evil Assault the Nightmare in 2002. Its critic score of 70 is 4 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Resident Evil 4 at 95.
How it was received
Resident Evil Zero holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 140 votes.
What it launched against
Resident Evil Zero launched on 12 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Resident Evil Zero yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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