Resident Evil (ps1 edition) Review

Resident Evil is one of my most played through series since the Sony Playstation era of gaming. It started all the way back in 1996, me and my family had been on a vacation to Swedens capitol, Stockholm. And almost everytime we went to Stockholm we came home with a new game me and my brother. This time it was Resident Evil. Me and my brother had no idea what we had just bought, I was only 9 years old and my brother was 13. So we put the disc in the playstation console, the loading screen started and we saw a man walking down a corridor looking behind his shoulder, screaming, the camera zooms in to his face and then blood sprayed the screen. My brother and I looked at eachother and smiled, we knew that this would be an awesome game right away.

Since then alot has changed for me, I´m no longer adventuring through each and every room, saving up ammo and health items and killing all enemies, lately I´ve been speedrunning this game until a year ago. I still enjoy playing this game because for me it´s a classic.

The story is as follows, an elite police force is trying to find clues about recent murders that´s happened around a forest in Raccoon City, however when their helicopter lands and they continue on foot they are forced by some monsters to run into a mansion located in the forest. Their goal is now to try to find an escape rout and find clues about what happened to the people who lived in the mansion.

The player gets to choose character, and the choice is between Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine. Depending on who the player choose the game difficulty alters. If the player chooses Jill, the game gets easier by adding more inventory slots, a grenade launcher aswell as fewer enemies. If the player chooses Chris it will be more difficult with fewer inventory slots, more enemies and no grenade launcher, however Chris can take more damage than Jill.

The voice acting in this game is so bad it´s been nominated as one of the worst voice acting in video games. However the music really sets the tone for this survival horror game. You do really feel alone and scared when the tones sets in.

Overall: 7.5
Verdict: This is the base of survival horror, it´s here everything started, the voice acting sucks but hey man it´s a game from 1996 so who cares, try this out, you will not be disappointed. And if you feel like you wanna try out a newer version of this game then check out Resident Evil HD Remake (PC, Xbox one, PS4 with more).

Here is two videos of me playing the game, the first one is with Jill and the second one is with Chris. It must´ve been one of my worst runs with Chris in a while now, but hey I made it! ;)

Jill:

**Update**
Chris: