The PS1 version is the best RE version, but this one is still great.
When I had played RE on PS1 in 1-2 years and then sold the game, it just took me some mounths before I wanted to play it again, and my sisters boyfreind had it on PC, so I installed it and started to play it on my PC.
It's simply the same like the PS1 version, but I never got that "special feeling" when I played it on PC, but like I said before it's still a great game. It's a copy of the PS1 version and have everything that the PS1 version has, but the reason that I like the PS1 version better is probably because I played it the first times on PS1. But one more very BIG reason is, I have always loved more to play games sitting in my sofa and watching on the big TV screen than sitting with my PC and play, it's a whole different feeling. The only category that's much better on PC's is FPS and strategi games.
-That cind of games definitely belongs to PC.
When I started to play this game on PC, it was one thing I remember I liked more than the PS1 version in the start, that was the loading time when you opening a door, -you could now just take away that loading time with a easy click on a button. But after a while I realized that's one of the "magic" things:
-Just to wait these "scary seconds" when you opening a door, the wating to see what's inside the other room... On PC if you want, it can take less than a half second to come in to the other room. Ofcourse you can wait and skip to press the button, and wait like the PS1 version and see when the door opens, but often you don't do that after all...
Just these things is the reason the PC version is a little worse than the PS1 version. It feels better to sit in my sofa and play in a dark room then front of my computer. But otherwise it's a great game, and here I explain why:
First of all, I have always loved horror movies. And I have always loved games. Before RE came, it just existed one game how was frightening to play: Doom. Then when Resident Evil came nobody had seen a game like that! It was the first horror game in third person view, but ofcourse it was not only a horror game, it had so much more, a great story, great background music, great voices, adventure, puzzles, action etc. It was a simply perfect mix of all these things. 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 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 the year it came, 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!
I told you earlier but here I explain more "careful":
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, 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!
Again:
The PS1 version is the best! But the PC version is still great!