Resident Evil 3

Resident Evil 3 is the third game in the series. This story takes place during and after the events on Resident Evil 2. This is the comeback game of Jill Valentine from Resident Evil 1 as she is the main character on this game. This game features Jill’s last escape from Raccoon City. The control for the main character is still the same but it has an added feature for her that is not on the other two earlier series. This new feature is her ability to dodge enemy attacks and the ability to turn 180 degrees in a second which is very useful when you are being chase by Nemesis. Nemesis is the creature that Umbrella created to destroy whatever they like, he is an experimental weapon made for war. Right now Umbrella’s order to this beast is to seek out and destroy all STARS members he could find and unfortunately Jill is one of the STARS members.

I love playing this game especially the thrill of me being chased by Nemesis. It can be very annoying if you don’t know how to escape him or you don’t have enough firearms to render him motionless into the ground temporarily.

You will find this game as exciting as the other two series and puzzles are a little bit more difficult than its predecessors.

I recommend it to all who love survival horror games.

Resident Evil 2

Resident Evil 2 is the first survival horror game in a three dimensional perspective view that I played on the Playstation one console. As usual, I saw this game being played by most players in most Playstation gaming centers during that time. I bought my copy of this game at Metropolis Mall in Alabang. I was really excited to buy this game but when I tried to play it, I eventually became irritated and confused about the controls because I am used to controlling a character in a game doing the move I expect it to move just like a mouse pointer on the personal computer. I ended up rotating the character when I try to have him move to the left by pressing the left arrow button on the controller and vice versa. And when I tried pressing up or down button the character will move upward endlessly on his point of view and not the player’s point of view. Playing this game requires you to control the character by thinking you are the character, hence pressing the up button is the forward command for the character in the game and down button is for the backward command, the left and right buttons are commands to get the character to rotate to his left and right respectively. You got to think like you are the character. This tip is very useful in the all throughout navigation in the entire game.

Resident Evil 2’s story is a continuation of where Resident Evil 1 story left off. A team of high elite group called STARS or Special Tactics and Rescue Squad was sent to investigate a mysterious mansion on the outskirts of Raccoon City. And they found out that it was a secret passageway leading to the Umbrella Laboratory below Raccoon City. This corporation is experimenting on bio chemical weapons and viral weapons. One of these was a virus known as the T-virus. Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine managed to escape the mansion and laboratory, turning the self destruct button on, and that ultimately abolished the T-virus along with the mansion and laboratory. But as they went home to report the incident, nobody believed them, so the case against the Umbrella Corporation was dismissed.

A few months passed by, another virus was accidentally released known as the G-virus. This virus was invented by a certain scientist known as Dr. William Birkin. Umbrella tried to steal the G-virus from him and during the process Dr. Birkin was shot a number of times by the mercenaries that Umbrella hired to get the virus. Dr. Birkin injected himself with the G-virus and he became an inhuman creature with increased strength and agility. Then he killed all the mercenaries and the virus they were carrying was spilled on the sewer floors and eventually some rats ate the spilled content from the virus container, which they then released throughout all of Raccoon City. The city was immediately thrown into full chaos and then the ones who were bitten by the rats died and became a zombie. These zombies and other creatures began to eat people throughout the city, spreading the virus even more.

Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield are the protagonists in this game. They met when they arrived the night this incident began. Leon is a rookie cop that supposedly would have start his first day on the job, that same dreadful day of the incident and Claire is the sister of Chris Redfield from Resident Evil 1, she went to Raccoon City to find her brother.
When an accident occurred in the car that Leon and Claire were riding, they got separated by a flaming gas tanker that almost hit them and they decided to meet at the police station where they thought it was safer than anywhere in Raccoon City. They eventually found out that this leads to another Umbrella Laboratory and they have found a train that they use to escape that nightmare.

On this game, you will face a lot of zombies and powerful bosses. I recommend playing it safe by always having a healing item in your inventory all the time. I really enjoyed this game and played it an uncountable number of times already. This game is divided into two discs, one for Leon and one for Claire. The story can be played using either Leon or Claire first. The first character you play will start a game called Scenario A. This scenario ends with the train pulling off from the station and that’s it. After the ending credits, you get the chance to save your game and start again from the other character you didn’t chose to play Scenario A. The second character that will play from your last load from your last save will have to play Scenario B. This scenario will end with the true ending of this entire game. For example if you play Leon first, the scenario he is going to play is Scenario A. And after you save it and load it again, you get the chance to play using Claire for Scenario B. The same goes if you chose to play Claire the first time and play Leon the second time.

This is a very good game and guaranteed to keep you screaming and shouting the first time you play this game. Thank you, Capcom for introducing this game to the market. I recommend this for everyone who loves survival horror and action game with puzzles and a great graphical storyline.

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.