The original Resident Evil was a classic. It's not every day that an entire genre is formed from a single game, but 'survival horror' didn't really exist until Capcom's horror masterpiece was released. It was entirely different from everything available at the time: it was cinematic, it was complex, and most of all...it was scary.
Fast-forward to 2002, and the original Resident Evil was remade from the ground up for Nintendo's GameCube. Everything that was horrifying about the original PlayStation version was amplified, and the reworked puzzles and new content made the GameCube port the definitive version. This wasn't a simple graphical polish: Resident Evil had been reborn.
Now, in 2015, Capcom is re-releasing the remake of Resident Evil in HD. After more than a decade, can the original survival horror classic stay relevant in today's action-oriented video game market?
Resident Evil's story doesn't really waste much time. The game opens with a team of S.T.A.R.S. members (essentially SWAT officers), landing in the middle of a dark, foggy forest. Our two heroes, Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, are among them. Reports of vicious, cannibalistic murders taking place in the woods just outside Raccoon City have been circulating, and when the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team, which was originally investigating the case, goes missing, it's up to Redfield, Valentine and their team to figure out what's really going on.
Upon landing, the situation quickly deteriorates, and not just because of the rotting dogs and zombie-filled mansion. The team is quickly separated...and you are suddenly very, very alone.
