WOW! This is one of the best games I've played in my whole life! And is the best Resident Evil game in the series...
When I came home I totally become in "love" with RE. Before Resident Evil came, it was no horror games out there at all, -except Doom how was really scary when it came. I just mean that, I can say directly, that RE is the father of every each horror games we have today... Forget games like the Silent Hill series for example, if never RE should come, Silent Hill would never exist on our planet!
RE is one of the games I have the greatest and funniest memories of, I can't say how many times I've finished this game, I can guess about 30-40 times. I've never played a RE game so much like I have with this. It also has the best story of all of the games in the series. But now don't think I think the others RE is far away, this game is just a step better.
The game was really huge when it came, and it had everything. The story how I told you earlier -how is totally perfect, have now been little "to much" with the later RE games... (Umbrella and all this, except number four, every other games is about Umbrella and theirs different cind of virus.)
The Story:
It's a big mansion a long way out in the forrest, and nobody has reported from there on a very long time, because a lot of people works there, the police believe something is wrong and send one group to the big mansion.
A little bit from the mansion, the police members called S.T.A.R.S get attack off very, very strange dogs. (You can see blood flow from there teeth and their bones sticking up from their bodies.) One S.T.A.R.S member dies immediately, and all the others run so fast they can to the mansion and finally, the very last second reach the mansion, where they think they safe.
Ofcourse, without knowing whats waiting for them in there...
And here it's where the horrible story start, from the first start of the game it will turn to two different directions, because it depends on wich character you choose to play with. You can choose between Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine.
Chris starts just with a knife, but he's strong and can take much damage before he dies. Jill starts with a Beretta with a full magazine (15 rounds) and one knife, but she can't take so much damage like Chris can do.
Now it turn directly to two different directions.
An example:
We say, if you start with Jill, -Chris Redfield has disappear. You and your team member Barry goes in to a large dinner room to search for him. Soon Barry finds out there is blood on the floor... Barry want to check more on this and you as Jill going in to a room with a corridor and some locked doors, and a little open room. When you discover this little room you will be scared like hell... -Maybe not today, ofcourse RE is some years old now, but when it came 1996/1997, you would bee scared like hell...
You can't choose wich difficulty you want to play with, but Jill Valentine is easier to play with than Chris Redfield. So if someone play this game for the first time, I recommend you to play as Jill first.
How longer you pass through the game, you will soon understand more and more whats really has happend with this big mansion.
(Umbrella works there and have succefully maked the horrible virus called "G-Virus" - the people in this mansion has been infected and they all has became zombies...
All the letter in this game that you find is very intresting to read and some of them is also really frightening just to read... The other games in the series is just intresting to read, but never become frightening...
Resident Evil has a perfect balance of everything!
Here is some few exemple:
+When you least expect something will happened, something will scare you like hell...
+The background music and how the enemies sounds is totally perfect and all this sounds give the game a really horror atmosphere...
+All the puzzles in this game is really funny, and is not to easy and not to hard. It's perfectly "medium"!
+When RE came, for the very first time, in PS1s earlies days, you had never meet enemies like this before in a game...
Big hairy spiders, zombie dogs, a big snake, zombies, crows and a lot of more enemies who even are more scary and dangerous to meet...
+ The game become more and more frightening how longer you come trough this game.
+ The game has different endings...
Everything of every each thing that I told you about now, was totally new when Capcom released this game, you had never seen something like this in a game before. It's the most frightening RE game in the series and also the most frightening game I've ever played in my whole life, it's really a perfect mix of extremly horror, adventure and action. I love whole the RE series, but like I said before, this is just a step better.
It was something magic with this game when it came...
PS !
I don't do like 90% of every each other gamer does, go after what's the latest and most fresh, -whats the newest and has the best graphic.
I going after how good it was on that year when it came, and how funny I had when I played it. I can say right now, ofcourse I either play RE4 today than RE1. RE1 is to me now a "finished" game, but it still is the greatest game if I compare how it good it was when it came. Continue read my reviews of all the game in this amazing series, I'll make them all!