Resident Evil
Jump straight into Resident Evil for PlayStation 1 (PS1): 100% free, runs in your browser, nothing to install.
Jump straight into Resident Evil for PlayStation 1 (PS1): 100% free, runs in your browser, nothing to install.
Survival horror's template was set here in 1996. A S.T.A.R.S. team is stranded at a mansion in the forested Arklay Mountains outside Raccoon City, and you pick either Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine to find a way back out. Fixed camera angles frame each room, ammunition is scarce enough to matter, and much of your time goes on reading files, matching keys to doors and learning a building built as one large puzzle box.
Movement is tank-style, meaning you turn in place and then press forward, so encounters are about positioning and deciding when to walk past a zombie rather than spend bullets on it. Inventory is capped at a handful of slots, with storage boxes that share one set of contents across the whole mansion, and saving costs an ink ribbon you had to find first.
The two campaigns are genuinely different rather than cosmetic. Jill carries more items, has a lockpick that stands in for most small keys and gets the grenade launcher; Chris has fewer slots and a harder route, and each is paired with a different surviving team member, Barry Burton for Jill and Rebecca Chambers for Chris. The live-action opening, the stiff English dub and the corridor where dogs come through the windows are the moments this version is remembered for.
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Jill is the gentler route, with eight inventory slots, a lockpick and the grenade launcher. Chris has six slots and a tougher path through the same mansion, which makes him the natural second run once you know the layout.
They are the save currency. Saving at a typewriter consumes one ribbon, and the supply in the mansion is limited, so the game forces you to decide when your progress is worth spending one.
The 1997 Director's Cut keeps the 1996 game as Original Mode and adds two others. Beginner mode roughly doubles the ammunition and ink ribbons and gives you more health, stronger weapons and auto-aim. Arrange mode moves items and enemies around, changes some camera angles and starting outfits, and hands you a chromed Custom Beretta that can sometimes drop a zombie in one shot.
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