Today Resident Evil aren´t as popluar as it used to be in the year peroid of 1996-1999. Well that´s a lie, now that Resident Evil 4 is here. But let´s go back to before Resident Evil turned upside down. We go back to the first Resident Evil game ever. The story is as good as ever, i reminds of a horror movie. In the middle USA, there´s a city named Raccoon City. A peacefull city where everything is going as it should. The city is also a good example of sucess, cause of the cooraption UMBRELLA. Who helps the city getting along. They are knowen all over the world. But one day, something happens. A family is found murdered, but something aren´t right. The victems have been eaten. Also at night, pepole hear disturbing gorans, and sounds. With the police inversgating, it seems that the case is near solved, but they are long from. Few days after the murder, a group of tourists goes to Alckery Moutiuns, near the city. But they never returned. Sunddely, a body come floating down the Raccoon River. The body has bite marks all over the body. The police now wants to get this solved, so they send the special team S.T.A.R.S Alpha Team off to invistage it. But they soon loses contact with them, when they fly over Raccoon Forest. Now the police sends the S.T.A.R.S Bravo Team off to investagte what happened to them. The Bravo Team includes, Barry Bouten, Josheph (can´t remember his full name), Albert Weasker (Quite well knowen in Resident Evil Code Vercoia X, and Resident Evil 4), Chris Redfield, and (Most loved by fans) Jill Valentine. They find the chopper, but no ones in it. But all the equipment are there. Wired. Josheph finds a body not long away from the chopper, and is then sunddely attacked by a dog. He get bited to death. The others run into a mansion that´s near. Now the game begins. By the way, it may be hard to see what´s happening in the intro, since it´s black & white. But it´s has been maked for real. The intro and ending are all played by real actors. But let´s get to the game. You start by selecting one out of the 2 playble characters. Chris, or Jill. They are differnt to play as. Jill can carry up to 8 items, and starts with a Bretta, but she only has to take a few hits to go down, and she wants to find Chris who is gone. Chris can only carry up to 6 items, and starts with a knife, but he is stronger. You soon find out that the mansion you escaped into was a bad idea. It´s infested by Zombies. And then Wesker is gone, and Jill too (If you play as Chris). Now your serach begins for them, plus finding out what happened. The gameplay is played via differnt crama angels. You move to the end of the cramra, and the angle change. It can be a pain in the butt when you are engaging and enemy, since it not always can save you, from getting attacked by an enemy. They are ofen off screen. But that does not hurt since Zombies can´t use long distence attacks. That´s what you say the first 10 hours. Later you meet the Hunters which can jump from anywhere and slice your head off. They are offen off screen. Also the combat is dull, but challaging. You hold down R1 to aim. You can´t move while duing this, so that also leaves you open for attacks. You can aim sideways, and up & down. When a zombie is in the line of sight, shoot it. It takes a few shots, before they go down. Aiming can be hard, since there isen´t a laser pointer like Metal Gear Solid, and Resident Evil 4. Well hurray for auto lock then. When you aim, your character will point at the nearest enemy. Weapons are pleanty, from Handguns, to Rocket Launchers. The mansion is pretty locked up, so much seraching is nedded, puzzles are also made to keep you from running through the game, on your first time. They are good, but not as good as Konamis Silent Hill series. You can clear them by finding clues in files which are scharrted through out the mansion. The mansion can take quite a while to get through, and when you just think, you can get out, you get into the corutyard, and a lab, and underground. The enemies are looking good, but their AI are dumb as a door. They sometimes get struck behind objects, making you knife them to death. Later you learn that Umbrella is behind this. It´s because of a virus named T-Virus, which kills the victem, and reviving them, as blood thirsty creatures. It also effect animals, and plants. Partely this in done by your leader Albert Wesker. The game is 10-20 hours long. The game has alternate endings, but only a retard would see them all since they don´t unlock anything. You can only unlock costumes, and a Rocket Launcher with unlimited ammo. The game´s story isen´t long, but it will take long time because of the item & save system. You have to find Ink Ribbons, in order to save, which is done on a typewhrither. There are only limited Ribbons, so you have to think before you save. Also if you have your iventory full, and want to collect a new item, well too bad for you. You can´t discard items, so everytime you full, either waste bullets, or healing items, to clear a space, or going back to a save point. In there is a item box, which is used to store items. It feels stupid to keep going back to a box, in order to get space. As you discover save points, new boxes appear, with same items in it, as in the last box, which is stupid. The sound is one of the worst ever. The zombies, and foot steps sound good, but the gun sounds are totaly unrelastic. And as it coulden´t get worse, the voice over is bloody awafull. The game has such bad script such as these 2 lines "Barry, where´s Barry?", and "Hope not this is Chris´s blood". But besides that, this is a really great game. You need to play it, in order to get the most out of the later Resident Evil games. Good but this could have been better.
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