This remake also expands on the original, including the addition of the terrifying Crimson Heads: zombies that can only be permanently killed with fire. But the quality of the art direction, and the powerfully gloomy atmosphere, make up for its technical shortcomings. The PC version is based on a GameCube game from 2002, so the pre-rendered backgrounds aren't as crisp as you might hope for on a 4K monitor. Building a mental map of its maze-like layout as you play, backtracking and steadily unlocking more of it-all while dodging shambling zombies (and worse)-is the quintessential Resident Evil experience. This dusty old manor is stuffed with hidden passages, arcane puzzles, and dark secrets.
The real star is the Spencer Mansion itself, which remains one of the very best Resident Evil settings. Playing as either Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine, you're trapped in an isolated rural mansion infested with zombies, searching desperately for a way to escape. It retains the fixed camera angles and challenging survival horror of the 1996 game, but with vastly improved visuals and smoother controls. This remake of the first Resident Evil is the best way to experience the original story. From the gleaming marble of the entrance hall, to the warrens of messy back offices, flooded and lit by flickering bulbs, this is one of the best realised (and scariest) Resident Evil settings. It's a slow, methodical survival horror game, with incredible lighting that makes every corridor of the RPD building drip with atmosphere. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, as they fight to survive a zombie outbreak in Raccoon City.
Set almost entirely in a grand old police station that used to be an art gallery, it follows two playable characters, Leon S. This is one of the nicest feeling Resident Evil games, with snappy, responsive controls and a general air of polish throughout. But it presents it all in a supremely playable, modern way. It features all the elements that have come to define the series: namely tense survival horror, puzzle solving, item management, claustrophobic environments, and groaning, brain-eating zombies. This is currently the best possible introduction to Resident Evil for a new player.
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