RESIDENT EVIL: The BIG DADDY of Horror Games

by HD

 

 

 

 

Resident Evil or should I say 'President Evil', is indeed the President of the horror gaming..!

 

 

          
  

The original Resident Evil game also known as the Biohazard can easily be called the dad of modern day horror video games, created and released in 1996 by video game giant Capcom very well known for the legendary Street Fighter series.    

Resident Evil back then introduced a whole new genre of 3D survival horror video games and inspired a number of such horror games and also movies along with its own list of great game sequels, the Silent Hill horror game series which was also a great success, the Resident Evil movie series starring the fit babe Milla Jovovich and a bunch of other zombie horror movies.

The Scary Atmosphere of Resident Evil

Being one of a kind the game ‘Resident Evil’ successfully incorporated into it the scare factor and the chilling experience with a great plot, interesting story, scary gaming atmosphere, sounds, effects and background music, it brought up a unique horror gaming formula which was then successfully implemented in later sequels. 

         

In the game-play the player’s character is a special task force member trapped in a huge mysterious mansion infested with creatures as if transported from the pits of the Netherworld itself but in fact are mutated monsters and infected zombies ready to eat you up, the player has to fight through and escape the puzzled mansion with all its hostilities alive with an arsenal of weapons and items available within the creepy mansion. 

      

      

The Protagonists of Resident Evil

 

There are two main protagonist characters for the player, Chris Redfield the tough and fearless young man of the special task force in the game called Special Tactics And Rescue Service or simply S.T.A.R.S and the other is Jill Valentine a hot looking resourceful girl of the same special task force both characters later became huge fan favorites and also made an appearance in the Resident Evil movie series. Although the graphics of the game is nowhere near to the games of today but back then people were not accustomed to such advanced graphics and the game enjoyed much success and was a best seller of its time. The game was originally released on Playstation One and then on Sega Saturn and PC, and years later an improved remake was also launched on Nintendo GameCube to relive the thrilling experience on an advanced console.

Most recently the game has been re-mastered for the fans to enjoy better graphics and game-play, & to relive the legend of the creepy mansion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside the creepshow of the Mansion the origin of Resident Evil

 

 

RESIDENT EVIL SYNOPSIS:

An elite team of special task force of the Raccoon City police department known as Special Tactics And Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S) launches an operation in a mountainous facility for its mischievous and mysterious activities and to rescue their colleagues who disappeared on the last operation.

 

As soon as the team arrives they find no survivors from amongst the previous team but only body parts and then while searching they are attacked by mutated dogs killing one of their colleague while their helicopter pilot panics and flew off, the surviving team members including Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Albert Wesker and Barry Burton then take refuge in a huge mansion facility in the mountainous region and gets separated. 

 

 

 

The protagonist either Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield as a player then try to solve the mystery of the mansion, with creepy zombies and mutated creatures lurking in the mansion, the protagonist discovers the colleagues to be rescued either dying or already dead, going through different riddles to move ahead as the isolated mansion is full of puzzles like a huge decorated maze.

It is revealed that the mansion is a research facility for a biomedical firm known as Umbrella Corporation involved in illegal biological experiments, the horror surrounding is due to an outbreak of the T-virus a mutagenic developed within the facility which converted the life-forms including the mansion’s working staff into infected monsters and zombies.

 

 

In the mad world of Resident Evil, the protagonists fights their way deep into the facility they found that one of their team member Albert Wesker to be a double agent working for the Umbrella Corporation being highly ambitious and cunning Albert Wesker is more than responsible for this havoc which fell upon the S.T.A.R.S members, the protagonist progresses until it comes down to the final showdown with a powerful monster known as Tyrant a bio-weapon experiment, who terminates the unsuspecting cocky traitor Albert Wesker and comes after the heroes, after defeating the Tyrant, the heroes along with the few surviving team members are rescued by their helicopter on the heliport of the facility and successfully escapes the dreaded mansion.

 

Resident Evil: ‘Fiction vs Reality’ or Similarity

The heroes of the resident evil universe were concerned whether this virus would breakout from the underground facility & effect the world which exactly what happened while we progress in the story of 'Resident Evil' in sequels and the T-virus becomes a pandemic followed by many waves of other disastrous pandemic. Are we living in the similar times or is there any similarity between this fictional world and the world of our own? It's up to you to decide !