Resident Evil 1

Resident Evil 1 is a science fiction and action adventure game that has a bite of horror into it. Haha. I think this game became popular because of the great graphics that were offered by the creators of this game. Furthermore it involves a fantastic storyline that added to its popularity.

The game scene was at a place called Raccoon City. Raccoon City is home to many people living a simple and good life. But Raccoon City is only a cover as it is also the home of the infamous Umbrella Corporation Laboratory on the face of the earth. Different experiments where done on this laboratory including viral research and bio weapons for the military. One experiment they have done is known as the T-virus.

Before this virus was inevitably released on the poor civilians on Raccoon City causing various mutations on plants and animals and the continuous regeneration of cell tissues on all living things even after their death which of course became the zombies and other hideous creatures, our protagonists discover a mansion on the outskirts of Raccoon City and they were told that there are bizarre incidents in that area that is why they were dispatch on that mansion and went there for an investigation.

The characters Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine are our playable characters on this game. You need to control them; solving puzzles and blasting your way through many foes to be able reach your main goal which is to escape the mansion. The controls are hard to get use to at first but just imagine yourself as the main character and you will press up on the controller if you want your character to move forward and down if you want them to move backwards and left and right if you want them to move sideways either left or right.

I first played this game after I have played Resident Evil part 2. That is why I am use to the control already. This is harder than the Resident Evil part two; in the sense that Chris can only obtain six items thereby forcing you to mostly go back and forth over and over again to unload the stuff you don’t need in an item box and then going back to where you need to pick up an item or two, while Jill has a eight items she can carry, but the only setback is that she has little stamina thus getting her into a danger status will be quick in one bite or two of those creatures.

When Resident Evil Genesis the Movie was played on the wide screen, I was surprised to see the mansion on the movie, but I was little disappointed because only a little portion of the mansion was seen in the movie and most scenes is the Umbrella Laboratory. Anyway, this movie is relatively close to the story of the game that is why I did enjoyed watching this movie even though the characters are different.

Overall, this is a good game to play, especially at night, for those action survival horror game fanatics out there like me.