Resident Evil
Resident Evil is a survival horror classic in which a group of special forces agents, known as S.T.A.R.S, struggle against hordes of zombies and various other mutants in a mysterious mansion as they try to…
Resident Evil is an adventure developed by Capcom Planning Room 2, released 22 March 1996 on PlayStation. The main story takes about 9.2 hrs to finish.
What Resident Evil is
Resident Evil is an adventure game developed by Capcom Planning Room 2 and released in 1996. It was published by Capcom. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On July 24, 1998, when a series of bizarre murders occur on the outskirts of the 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, killing one of the team's members. 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. It…
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 is the first of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Resident Evil in 1996. Its critic score of 79 is 5 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Resident Evil 4 at 95.
How it was received
Resident Evil holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 452 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9.2 hrs.
What it launched against
Resident Evil launched on 22 March 1996, within three weeks of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Kirby Super Star, Descent II and Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Kirby Super Star, Descent II, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Resident Evil yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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