Resident Evil has since been hailed as one of the most influential and greatest video games of all time. By December 1997, it had sold about 4 million copies worldwide and had grossed more than $200 million USD. It was an international bestseller, and became the best-selling PlayStation game ever at the time. Resident Evil was praised for its graphics, gameplay, sound, and atmosphere, although it received criticism for its voice acting.
Resident Evil establishes many conventions seen later in the series, including the control scheme, inventory system, save system, and use of 3D models superimposed over pre-rendered backgrounds. Gameplay consists of third-person action with emphasis on inventory management, exploration, and puzzle solving. It went through several redesigns, first as Super NES game in 1993, then a fully 3D first-person PlayStation game in 1994 and finally a third-person game. Players control Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, members of an elite task force known as S.T.A.R.S., who must escape a mansion infested with zombies and other monsters.Ĭonceived by producer Tokuro Fujiwara as a remake of his earlier horror game Sweet Home (1989), the development of Resident Evil was led by Shinji Mikami. Resident Evil is a survival horror game developed and released by Capcom for the PlayStation in 1996.
