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Resident Evil
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1996 survival horror video game
OverviewAI-generated
Resident Evil: Director's Cut is an action, shooter, puzzle, and adventure game developed by Capcom Planning Room 2 and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and Capcom. The title belongs to the Resident Evil franchise and features single-player game modes. It was released on platforms including PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, Wii, and GameCube. The game carries a Mature ESRB rating.
Publication dates for the work include March 22, 1996, September 25, 1997, and March 22, 2002. The game has sold 2,750,000 units. Various review scores have been recorded, including 81/100, a Metacritic score of 88, a general rating of 4.38, an IGDB rating of 78 based on 61 ratings, and a critic rating of 80 based on one critic.
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Game data
Metacritic 88- Released
- 2002-03-22
- User rating
- 4.38 / 5
- Genres
- Action
- Platforms
- PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, GameCube
- ESRB
- Mature
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Game details · IGDB
Resident Evil: Director's Cut is an arranged version of the original game produced to compensate for the highly publicized delay of the sequel Resident Evil 2. The game contains a new arranged mode with various changes made to the game. The original release of the Director's Cut advertised an uncut version of the opening cinema in full colour and never-before-seen. Notable aspects of this video include shots of a corpse with bites taken out of the face, close-ups of zombie dogs bleeding when shot, and graphic quick-cuts of Joseph being bitten by these dogs.
- Released
- 1997
- Genres
- Shooter, Puzzle, Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
- Game modes
- Single player
- Franchise
- Resident Evil
- Developer
- Capcom Planning Room 2
- Publisher
- Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Capcom
Key facts
- Developer
- Capcom
- Publishers
- Capcom PlayStation JP / NA : Capcom PAL : Virgin Interactive Entertainment Windows JP : NEC Home Electronics JP : Capcom NA / PAL : Virgin Interactive Entertainment Sega Saturn JP / NA : Capcom PAL : Sega Nintendo DS JP / NA / EU / AU : Capcom
- Director
- Shinji Mikami
- Producers
- Tokuro Fujiwara Masayuki Akahori
- Programmer
- Yasuhiro Anpo
- Writers
- Kenichi Iwao Yasuyuki Saga
- Composers
- Makoto Tomozawa Akari Kaida Masami Ueda
- Series
- Resident Evil
- Platforms
- PlayStation Windows Sega Saturn Nintendo DS
- Genre
- Survival horror
- Mode
- Single-player
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Encyclopedic overview
Resident Evil is a 1996 survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation. It is the first main installment in Capcom's Resident Evil series. Set in the fictional Arklay mountain region in the Midwest, players control Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, members of the elite task force S.T.A.R.S., who must escape a mansion infested with zombies and other monsters.
Resident Evil was conceived by the producer Tokuro Fujiwara, inspired by the limitations on his 1989 horror game Sweet Home. It was directed by Shinji Mikami. It went through several redesigns, first as a Super NES game in 1993, then a fully 3D first-person PlayStation game in 1994 and finally a third-person game. Gameplay consists of action, exploration, puzzle solving and inventory management. Resident Evil established many conventions seen later in the series, and in other survival horror games, including the inventory system, save system, and use of a vitals-monitoring system instead of a health counter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Resident Evil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.