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"Resident Evil" was originally released for playstation back in 1996. I have followed the evolution of the series for the last 8 years, and I still think that the original game is the best. Therefore I was happy to see that capcom would remake the original game for Nintendo`s Gamecube, so I just had to buy a Gamecube. "Resident Evil" for the Gamecube is a game that newcomers and veterans of the series should enjoy. This is a brilliant introduction for newcomers to the genre of survival horror, which I would say was invented by the original playstation-version(I know that "Alone In The Dark" was out first, but it really was "Resident Evil" that perfected the genre). For veterans of the series this is a brilliant return to where it all started 8 years ago: the scary, atmospheric mansion and T-virus. The graphics in this new version are some of the best ever created, but Capcom have not just released the old game with fancier graphics. There are many new rooms in this game, new story elements and monsters. Those of us who have played the original playstation-version dozens of times will absolutely want to complete this title, and the fresh elements that I have mentioned before will indeed justify buying it. I should also mention that this is a game for mature audiences that no one under the age of 15 should play. This is in my opinion one of the best games released for the Gamecube, and it is worth buying a Gamecube just for this title. 10/10

This game is an absolute classic. I don't really get scared by horror games anymore but Resident Evil Remake no matter how many times I play it gets me on edge. I emphasise that the Remake is the way this game was meant to be played. By the time they made this version they had already released 3 Mainline entries and were closing in on their 4th and this game takes all the world building that 2 to 3 did and injects it into the original game, to make it feel that much more at home. It's also impossible not to mention the fantastic visuals, They're still Gorgeous to look at today and the designs are memorable and pop Just right. Music is absolutely perfect, from ambient on edge tracks in the tense areas to the reassuring if slightly unnerving save room music. Voice acting has been improved immensely and the additions to the story work like they were there from the very beginning. Pacing is the only thing I'm not a huge fan of but even then it's far better than most titles out there. If it's your first play through without any guide it will probably take you upwards of 10 hours but if you make good pace or have played it before it will take you 6 to 7. Unrelated note but my three favourite animals are Sharks, Spiders and Snakes and this game takes all 3 of them and makes them terrifyingly huge boss fights which I have always loved and hated in equal measures. I'd give it a 10 but I have to take a few little points away for the pacing. Decent to strong 9/10

Resident Evil started a brand new life on the Gamecube in 2002 when Shinji Mikami decided to rebuild the scary mansion from the ground up, with new graphics, voice actors, story elements and puzzles. I must admit that, having played the original only a couple of hours on the Sega Saturn, I was never a big fan, with its C-movie acting and non-intuitive button controls. But this thorough update interested me enough to give it a try. And there are few games that top this one since.

Resident Evil games are genuine horror experiences, in that they have a very cinematic quality to them. The third-person perspective and changing camera angles have their drawbacks, but they also create the feeling of participating in an interactive horror movie. Resident Evil Remake (or REmake) is unique in the series, because it marries the sub-genre of zombie movies like Night of the Living Death to the haunted house movies like The Haunting of Hill House. There is something inexplicably creepy about huge, deserted, creaking mansions filled with old furniture and art (ghosts of the past still lingering?). The makers utilize this certain aspect to maximum effect, with spooky lighting, creepy shadows, eerie winds and thunders in the distance, ticking clocks, moaning zombies, etc. Elements as these have been used in tons of scary movies, and REmake shows that it still works.

The pre-rendered backgrounds are astonishing, to almost photo-realistic effect. From the classically decorated rooms to the dimly-lit basements to the cold laboratories, it all looks equally beautiful. Although 'beautiful' is perhaps a strange description of rooms crawling with cockroaches, covered in grime and/or blood. It is in such details as flickering lights and rustling leaves (combined with appropriate ambient sounds) that the environments become lively instead of static, and the way that characters and interactive elements blend into those environments is another hallmark of REmake's perfection: reflections, shadows, lighting and sounds of footsteps that change with the foundation make the trip through the mansion very realistic.

The zombies themselves are testament to the horror that happened within the walls of the Spencer Mansion: a lab experiment gone terribly wrong. The story is mainly told through cutscenes and files spread throughout the mansion. The road towards the explanation of what has happened is a first-class trip towards the inner circle of hell, with environments becoming more sinister and hostile, zombies popping out of every room, door and closet, and ever-more dangerous monsters appearing with time. For RE veterans, REmake has a lot of new things to offer besides the nostalgia, the better graphics, sounds and voice acting. About three quarters of the original puzzles have been altered, improved or replaced. An entirely new sub-plot revolves around a family that was the first victim of the Umbrella Company's sinister experiments, which has created one of the game's scariest adversaries (I didn't even dare to go back to an area I knew she had been). Also new is the appearance of so-called Crimson Head zombies; undead that have mutated into an even deadlier and considerably faster form (which must have been a foresight by the makers, since running zombies now feature widely in movies like 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead (2004)).

The thing that didn't change while it actually could have been is the button controls. The characters still move by turning them and then pushing them forward, which can be annoying for novice players when camera angles suddenly change and you find yourself surrounded by hordes of undead. But those who have a some time and patience to master them eventually shouldn't have too many problems with it. Which can't be said of the short cut-scenes of doors opening, when you move from one room to the next. This used to be an animation masking the time needed for loading the new environment, but it is no longer necessary for the Gamecube that can read the information fast enough. Still, Mikami and his team felt it gave an extra artistic quality to the game, which is true to a certain extent, but they could have made them shorter than the standard 5 or 6 seconds they usually take. I will not be the one complaining on and on about Rebecca Chambers, a character in the game representing the damsel in distress; many gamers think she's just an annoying little drag, but come on, give her a break: she has only just joined S.T.A.R.S. and not everyone can keep his cool in a house filled with the undead and other monsters! Every horror movie needs a desperate character.

But again, these are just minor points in a game that keeps you on the edge of your seats, delivers multiple deep scares and keeps the plot twisting and turning until the last zombie finally hits the ground and the girl is saved. Welcome to the world of survival horror.

This review contains some spoilers. So, I have now played Chris' campaign like 12 times and the same goes for Jill which is much to little when thinking about how great this game is. It's the definition of a flawless masterpiece and deserves to be on every Top 5 video game of all-time list. Now let's start with the games design. The graphics look beautiful, you wouldn't think this game came out in 2002 and I would go so far and say that the "Remastered" release looks even better than RE5 and 6. The pre-rendered background give the game a great aesthetic look and the use of shadow and light effects is also well done. Looking at the zombie's shadow when they are knocking on a window is breathtaking when combining it with the cinematography or should I say fixed camera angles. If this would be a movie it would be a contender for film with the best cinematography of all time pretty much rivaling the likes of Halloween (1978) and Shining (1980).

The music much like the environment adds a lot to the games atmosphere and Remake has by far the best score in the franchise followed by Code Veronica. The environment is also the best in the series as it first of all had the Spencer Mansion ,which is far more original than just running around in an zombie infested city like shown in most zombie movies, and second it offers most varieties as you also visit a cabin in the woods, a forest (when just short), a tank with zombie sharks, a cave with boulders that Chris wasn't able to bunch back in 1998 and a lab.

The puzzles are also some of the greatest in the series if not the best. Just like the environment they offer a lot of variety and are very challenging but besides of that there isn't much else to say but getting the items for them is a scary fun scavenger hunt.

It's also the scariest game of the series not just for the environment but also its monsters. Crimson Heads are a nice addition to the game as it makes you think twice wether you are willing to kill a zombie with the low resources you got or not as only a head shot or a destroyed leg will kill them for good. You can burn their corpses but fuel is also very low in this game. Hunters take 3 shot gun shells to be killed and they can kill you with one instant kill attack and if you forgot to save, well then have fun playing thru the living nightmare you survived so far all over again. There is also another monster additional to the remake, but I will talk about this a bit later.

But where the game really shines is the story and its characters. I never understood why many people view movies with simple stories as simple but still good but why this does not go for RE baffles me to this day. Most of Resident Evil's story gets told by it's files and finding and reading them really makes me feel like some sort of detective that is trying to solve the mystery about the happenings in the spencer mention. And yes, mystery equals good story telling just like character development does! Reading all the files written by some of the scientists who became victims of the T-Virus outbreak makes everything about it so intriguing "Mm, itchy tasty" and I like how everything gets revealed piece by piece which will lead to the big picture about the Umbrella conspiracies. I still can't find any contradictions and story inconsistencies in this game, which is what would make a story bad objectively speaking.

So, I revealed my reasons why I love the execution of the story so much but what about the characters that carry out the story? REmake has my favorite cast of major characters. Wesker, Jill, Chris, Rebecca and Barry are all in my Top 5 RE characters list. I like the interactions between them. Chris having that big brother attitude when talking to Rebecca who is all scared and afraid as a still young and unexperienced girl (let's act that RE0 doesn't exist, ok) and member of S.T.A.R.S, she never thought she would experience something like that in her career wasn't she. You can see her sorrow when she is crying over Richards death after Chris told her she got eaten by one of the neptunes. I like how Jill and Barry always ask themselves what is going on in the mansion which combined with reading the files increases my interest to find out what happened her even more. It almost feels like I am with them....in the mansion. I wish they would still have the "Jill Sandwich" and the "master of unlocking" line from the original in the game as I can't see how this would hurt the remake. You can also see that Barry goes thru a lot as you find out Wesker is using him for his personal benefits. Speaking about Wesker. He isn't the great villain as he is in Code Veronica and Umbrella Chronicles but going back and see where it all started with him makes me appreciate him more and more. Especially after Umbrella Chronicles since this game shows more of him in the time of the mansion incident and the T-Virus outbreak. The reveal of him being the villain working as an Umbrella scientist and double agent was also done very well. For me the characters in this game feel like real people. Real people that are inexperienced with the things they are witnessing in this game and they feel especially real than compared to most video game characters from the same era that are basically super human or one man armies. And of course, there is also Lisa Trevor who has one of the most tragic back stories of all time but I don't want to spoil this. It's a great subplot, which is surprising because of stories actually suffer from sub plots more than they actually benefit from. I didn't say much about her when talking about the monsters but she is just as intimidating as the Crimson Heads and Hunters if not more in some cases.

The voice acting is pretty good for 2002 standards. Chris and Jill had actually the weakest voice actors with Barry surprisingly being the best. I wouldn't change anything from it though as it just like the gameplay and the music goes perfectly hand in hand with the story, the tension and the mysteries.

This is a no brainer but adore this game. If RE2 remake is a Hollywood blockbuster with zombies and RE4 is a campy B-Movie than REmake is pretty much an arthouse film with zombies and monsters. It's in my opinion the best game in the franchise and one of the biggest pieces of art and of course if I would give this a review score, I would give it a 10/10.

Thx for all the readers and if you for some reason still haven't played this game. Go pick it up. As a Resident Evil fan, a zombie fan, a survival horror fan or an old school gamer you won't regret it. It really baffles me how so many people still haven't picked up REmake despite it now being out for every modern system, some people, I guess.

I really liked the first resident evil game on play-station one but this one i love. There is a lot of new stuff that is kind of tricky to get down. Besides that I loved the detail they put in the remake version like the movie parts of the game. They put one thing in the game that really through me off at first and that was the fact that you have to burn the zombies after you shoot them in order to kill them. I did find a very cool way to kill the boss Lisa in the tomb room. Your character is down there plus one other person what you have to do is let Lisa go after the other person and you push the rocks of the edge. If you open the door before Lisa comes after you the tomb opens up and you get to see the remains of Lisa's mothers body Lisa yells mother and then she just jumps off the edge all by herself. After saying all that about the remake version, I hope someday i will get to play resident evil 4.

This game was great. But some parts boring and bad. Like really boring. I was hoping to see more interesting stuff. And Jill's story was the same thing as Chris', they just swapped roles. Though, it was nice seeing Rebbeca. (You can see Rebbeca half way through the game as Chris.) That's all I have for this game.

In 2002 Capcom and Nintendo made a deal for three Resident Evil video games to be made on the new Nintendo GameCube

One of those games is a remake of the game that started the Survival Horror Genre.

Resident Evil centers around S.T.A.R.S: Special Tactics and Rescue Service as the team is sent to investigate a series of blizzard murder cases in the Mountains outside Raccoon City and to search for the lost Bravo team. However after the team is attacked and members of the team are killed the survivors Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Barry Burton and Albert Wesker escape into a mansion however the team soon discovers that the mansion is full of Zombies and other monsters. As the plot goes on you learn who is behind this nightmare and how the player must survive the night. In the game you get to play as Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield each having their own story and game play along with a partner Chris teams up with Rebecca Chambers the surviving member of Bravo Team while Jill teams up wit Barry Burton

The game got a huge overall making it to where the player can follow the story and plot and the script is more than improved.

First thing I got to say about the game is that the graphics got a huge and dare say superb upgrade the level of darkness and lighting really gives the game that fear factor that Resident Evil is known for plus the character models look excellent almost if they did motion capture for them and they look very well done as well as the level designs and the monsters will give you nightmares

The voice acting is top notch and the writing for the game does an much better job with helping the player follow the story along with the cast given a powerful performance

The controls take the feel of fear and you have to be ready for anything and the game play will make you jump through out.

If you are fan of Resident Evil you will enjoy this upgrade to the game the started it all

I give Resident Evil an 9 out of 10