The year was 1996 when the International company known has Capcom unleashed a game across the U.S for the Sony Playstation on march 22 called Resident evil in japan it is called biohazard. It didn't take long for the game to become a best seller selling more than 2,750,000 over all. now that you know a little bit of information lets begin the review
The story follows a elite group of cops know has S.T.A.R.S. ( special tactics and rescue service ) the s.t.a.r.s branch has two teams
- Alpha team Albert Wesker - Mission Leader
Chris Redfield - Pointman, Marksman
Barry Burton - Backup Man, Weapons Specialist
Joseph Frost - Omni Man, Vehicle Specialist
Jill Valentine - Rear Security, B&A Specialist
Brad Vickers- Rear Security, Pilot
- Bravo Team
Enrico Marini- Mission Leader
Kenneth Sullivan - Pointman, Field Scout
Richard Aiken - Backup Man, Communications
Forest Speyer - Omni Man, Vehicle Specialist
Edward Dewey - Rear Security, Pilot
Rebecca Chambers - Rear Security, Medic
Kevin Dooley - Co-Pilot who substituted pilot for Bravo Team during the Arklay incident.
Bravo team was sent in first and ended up MIA when there helicopter had to make a crash landing in the forest of raccoon city. Following there disappearance Alpha team was sent in to look for them. They found the crashed helicopter with the mutilated body of Kevin Dooly and promptly continue there search there missing comrades. Joseph frost while searching discovered a hand still holding a gun upon him screaming in horror was attached by a group of Cerberus (zombie dogs) who tore him apart. upon hearing his screams the rest of the team was attacked by the rest of the pack and had to retreat while doing that the remaining members of Alpha team found a mansion and ran inside where they would encounter true horror.
when you start the game you get to choose from two characters Chris Redfield or Jill valentine. Chris is stronger and faster than Jill but at the cost of loosing two inventory slots he has a support character passively helps him while Jill is weaker and slower but has two more inventory slots. he supportive character is more offensive and sometimes provide her with additional ammo.
The game play involve you running around the mansion solving puzzles while having to fight of monsters and zombies for some people this might bore some people but for others its great. unlike other game you cant just go willy nilly and shoot every monster you see or else you'll end up getting left with only using a knife ( not the best weapon to use ) and screwed over. there are storage bins located around the mansion that where you can store the items that you collected. it doesn't matter which bin you put a item it will appear in all the other ones. theres a unique save system that requires you to have a ink ribbon on hand if you want to save your game but the catch is that there is a limited amount of ribbins you can get over the course of the game limiting the amount of saves you can do which is pretty much bad news for people who save every second. the camera system is fixed meaning that you wont be able to look around a corner until you actually go around it. the health system has you can see
the game uses a unique health system that tells how much heath you have by using the following a heart moniter with the words Fine, caution, danger and poison. the game unlike the newer versions didn't have a pysical warning system to tell you how badly your character was injured.
The list of weapons includes the beretta handgun, colt python, remington shotgun, flame thrower, and rocket launcher. you'll probibally be using the beretta a lot more than other the other guns because the ammo is more plentiful and it's pretty good against the other enemies. the colt python you find latter in the game and it is the second most powerfull gun in the game it is capable of dealing with the tougher bosses with a few bullets. as you can see the list isn't very long but that doesn't really matter.
The enemies range from the standard zombies
has you can see from the picturer below. most zombies are slow and easy to avoid others are tougher to avoid and have to be delt with while some zombies have no use of the lower half of there body and have to crawl on the ground. The crawlers are the easiest to deal with only requiring a knife to dispatch.
Tcreature below the zombie is called a hunter. They are very dangerouse and take alot of bullets to kill and if you are in the caution health stage then you risk getting decapitated by the hunter which makes it a instant kill.
The following video is from resident evil 3 credits go to user
Matayoshi1986 and youtube
over all this game is a classic that I believe everyone should play it atleast once in there life.
Following the success of resident evil capcom began work on the sequel on shortly after releasing the first resident evil. scheduled for a March 1997 release and about 85% complete when the decided to scrap it and start over from the begining because the developers felt it was too similar to the first resident evil. it wasn't until January 21, 1998 and 8 days later for Japan on the 29 that it was released for the sony playstation. it ended up selling 46.9 million copies for the playstation alone.
