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Scary, Fun, Puzziling, and Sweet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: August 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

RESIDENT EVIL is the ultimate horror game. I rented it because me and my friends have cherished RE since the first one came out on the PlayStation. From then on, we waited for all the sequals, and the one prequal. After the GameCube came out, I heard rumors about the new and totally improved Resident Evil. I quickly bought a GameCube, a couple of games, and started waiting for the new RE. When I got it, I loved it. Here is why:

1. Way improved graphics that make the game scarier then the origanal.
2. Better sound, zombies groan and gunshots bang and leaves rustle in the breeze.
3. Gore! Ugh, gore can be boring. But now it gives a more, get me the heck out of here, feeling.
4. Bigger Mansion. The Cabin in part two, is new! Lisa isn't. Plant 42 is now in a better room.
5. Good bosses. Lisa, Plant 42, Black Widows, Yawn, and Neptune are all back and SCARIER! Oh god, Lisa is still the ultimate!
6. Good music, some that fits your mood. ;)
7. Detailed zombies! Not some weird looking brown and red creatures bobbling around. They are now 'scary'.
8. Great outdoors turns into Nightmare Outdoors. The good looking Forest area looked pretty in the old one. The new one, looks like you walked in to the woods at night.
9. Puzzles galore! You puzzle lovers love scary puzzles! And RE has a bag load of them.
10. Mansion is the best looking thing you will find on the GameCube!

Well, I hope you buy it now! NOW I SAY! NOW! Scare you later!

Resident Evil is 5 Stars!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is packed new surprises such as guns, items, new monsters, and much more. Incredible graphics highly detailed backgrounds. Resident Evil will scare you and your Game Cube. Resident Evil is a complete remake of the first Resident Evil in 1996 for the PS (Playstation). This remake is not like Resident Evil Code Veronica to Resident Evil Code Veronica X, where some rooms are added and nothing else. Every little thing has different sounds. Excellent movie videos better understanding story.

Awesome Masterpiece of a Video Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

RESIDENT EVIL is going to turn out to be one of the biggest titles for the GameCube. I had so much fun playing it that I've already beaten it three times.
Players can choose to be marksman Chris Redfield or demolitions expert Jill Valentine, two members of a S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics and Rescue Squad) team that is sent in to investigate the bloody, bizarre attacks that have occurred within the secluded mountain community of Raccoon City. During their investigation, the team is attacked by a group of zombified dogs and is forced to take refuge within a gigantic, eerie mansion. Chris and Jill then embark on a nightmarish journey through a mansion that's filled to the brim with gross mutations and bloodthirsty zombies that were spawned by a genetic experiment in a secret lab that went horribly wrong.
For starters, the graphics are the best I've seen in a video game, with excellant visual clarity and lighting techniques that make the game ten times more spooky than it already is. The sound is also very good, adding on to the game's eerieness. You can hear the zombies, with their moans and their feet, but you have no idea where they are until they appear. The game had a great sci-fi/horror plot as well. The game's creators intended for this game to be one of those dark and psychological games that messes with your mind, and that is exactly what they achieved.
A few tips for budding video game enthusiasts - this isn't one of those games where you can get an unlimited ammo option, so you have to know when to fight and when to run for your life. You shouldn't shoot every single zombie that you see. Sometimes it's better to simply avoid them altogether to conserve your ammo. And by the way, if you think that hiding behind a door from any zombies or monsters will protect you, think again.
I wouldn't recommend this game to the faint of heart, those who are still afraid of the dark, those who are impatient (trust me, this game requires a LOT of patience), those who don't like their minds to be messed with, or those who simply don't like having the crap scared out of them (this game does that a lot).
All of the qualities described above add up to a superior gaming experience.

NOT ETERNAL DARKNESS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I hate it when people say this game is crap when compared to Eternal Darkness. Lemme get this straight. I've seen and played both games before and their both good in their own extent. Their both good games, but they have different strengths, and therefore different gameplay. The idea of the games themselves are different.

Both are classified as survival horror, which is very misleading. The thing is that they are different types of survival horror. RE is about biological zombie horror, while ED is about insanity and more psychological horror. Of course, that duzn't mean that both games canscare the living organs out of you.

If you look at the two games graphic wise, anybody who says ED has better graphics is either insane, or drunk. RE has superior graphics to almost 95% of all the games out there. Anybody who says this is an overexageration has obviously not seen the game before. I don't mean only in cutscenes. The ingame graphics are absolutely insane,compared to other games. but its easy to understand why the graphics are so good once you learn that they are pre-rendered backgrounds. ED is not in pre-rendered backgrounds, therefore it obvioulsy cannot handle as much graphical capabilities. With these pre-rendered BG's come not-so-great camera angles, which is glaringly obvious in RE. I dunt mean to underrate RE's graphics though. I mean, theyre very good. I hate to say this, but they are actually good enough to make you buy it, solely for the visuals. iss not that expensive anymore anyway. Just get it to show your friends the opening movie and stuff. Trust me, iss that good.

Personally, i dunt have a problem with the controls. I see many people complaining about how the controls suck and all, but in the end they're the people complaining about how they can't kill everything in time. uh, the point is, YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL EVERYTHING! This game is not about blasting every zombie in the mansion. if that's your thing, play House of the DEAD. Many people fail to realize this, it's like the ignorant peple who fail to understand that Super Smash Brothers is not a Fighting game(its a party gamE). Look in the booklet. It says, SAVE your ammo. All of you complaining about how hard this game is, its hard because you're trying to kill everything. The beauty of this game lies in the fact that it is a mind game, requiring you to think before pulling the trigger. Dead zombies revive as monstrosities known as Crimson Heads, and unless you want to DIE you better think before killing. This is why the game is so much fun. it's not about mindless killing. It's about thinking. It's not a game to take out all your anger on the zombies, that is not your goal in the game. The goal is to get out ALIVE. If you think that killing every zombie in the game is the way to survive, then you are not gonna last too long with the limited ammo and firepower you are given.

All in all, this game is really fun if you let it be what it is supposed to be. A survival Horror game. RE does have its share of zombie blasting fun, but don't play the game expecting only that.

Advice to those of you who own the game and were too lazy toread the above: This game isn't as hard as long as you don't kill everything in your path. If you dont have to kill sumthing to get through, then dunt kill it. and dunt waste ammo.

Perfect game to play for October

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Turn out the lights - Make sure your GameCube is Hooked up to a decent home-theater system and have a friend or two with you!

The Graphics are AWESOME! Everything is so-life like, even when dealing with zombies, dogs, and the other monsters, you'll have to get a grip in order to help Chris (or Jill) get out alive!

The cinemas at certain points in gameplay enhance the experience.
This game, Resident Evil 0 and Eternal Darkness are a great REASON TO BUY A GAMECUBE, now at it's $99 price!

It would probably be a good idea to get a PLAYER's GUIDE for this game if you haven't been exposed to survival horror games before.

Let the terror begin.....again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: April 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

With all the hype that's been surrounding the videogame market within the past 5 months. Nintendo fans nation-wide will soon have their chance to taunt and tease owners of either the PS2 or XBOX. This game has to be seen to be believed. Everything has been revamped and remodeled to take advantage of the Gamecube hardware. All the voice acting has been redone and greatly improved to eliminate that once unpleasant sound of the characters talking. New areas and prerendered backgrounds (that look as if they're all done in real time) open this title up for a whole new age to enjoy. Human or genetically altered, anyone will be able to find a reason to be finally proud of saying they support Nintendo.

If you're still reading this at this point, then I don't know what the heck is wrong with you. Import, pre-order, whatever. Get your fricking hands on this game, and turn off the lights.

Scary and Hard

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: May 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Okay, you can call me a newbie or a wimp or whatever, but I got a GameCube yesterday mostly for this game. I raced home, popped the little disc in, and watched the awesome opening movie. I was really psyched! The controls were confusing at first, but I got somewhat used to them. However, it's still really hard for me to gain some distance so I can turn and shoot the oncoming zombie. I shot the thing 7 times, and it still didn't fall. I shot it in the head, the abdomen, the balls, everywhere I could, but it STILL didn't fall! The zombie came at me and munched 'till I was dead. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, and the game is way too scary for me. I'm a 14-year-old girl, and I'm probably just a wimp, but the game really scared me. I can't play it unless someone's nearby. I thought it would be the kind of terror that comes with watching a scary movie, you know? the fun kind of fright. But this is different. It scared me so that it wasn't fun anymore. Think about your personal maturity before you get this game. I believe that this game was made for older teens or adults who don't scare so easily.

greatest game ever!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: April 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Resident Evil for Gamecube not only has the best graphics I've ever seen, but it also has the most realistic characters and monsters made. Mix that some, new weapons, and new areas and you get a fun and freightingly real expierence. Heres a challenge for you try playing with all the lights out for an even scarier experience.

Ground breaking graphics crippled by terrible control system

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There's not much more to say, really. The look and general atmosphere of this game is stellar. Incredibly creepy situations, ghastly moaning, shuffling, chomping, everything you expect from top notch zombie work. Great puzzles, quite tricky in fact, and lots of fun shotgun work and creepies.

The one problem, is the controls. You drive the characters like a tank. Instead of having the characters autorotate in the direction you intend to run and having movement related to a location on the floor tied to the stick (as in Mario's Mansion,or Eternal Darkness) you have to spin them around and *then* move that direction.

Want to turn a corner? Stop, turn, and then start moving again. Since motion is relative to the character and not the screen you're looking at, you also have to factor that in too. Yes, it's how it is in real life. But this isn't real life, it's a game, and the movement should be simple and intuitive, not a pain. Sure you can learn it, but it's annoying as heck. The only saving grace is they have a quick turn around button to overcome part of this problem, but it's a concession to overcoming a lousy design decision that should never have been made in the first place. Quick 180's don't help when you want to right angle a corner and keep moving.

It's incredibly clumsy and I cannot believe top rated game designers OK'd this completely non intuistic motion control. But they did. Somewhere in some design meeting, some fool won the day claiming this was the way to do it, and in the process took a sizeable chunk from their sales.

I rented this before buying it, and am very glad I did. I had a great time being creeped out, but due to the controls I never rented it again. When RE: Zero came out, I was jazzed because I heard they'd redone the controls, so I rented it, but you're still driving your characters like tanks just like RE.

If they ever release this game with revised motion controls, I'll buy both versions no questions asked, it's that good. if not, I'll never play it again, the controls are that bad.

Worst game in the history of everything, ever.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 22
Date: February 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst game ever made. Well, that would have to exclude the original game that this one is based on. I had never played a Resident Evil game before, and good good, am I grateful.

This game is not about fighting zombies, or solving some mystery. This is a game about managing 4 inventory spaces. It would have been just as fun if it had been made as a spreadsheet simulator... albeit a spreadsheet with 4 cells. Apparantly your character has 4 compartments on their body in which to store things. It really doesn't matter how big or heavy these things are, but you can only hold 4 'things' at a time. You cannot place anything on the ground. If you want to remove something from your inventory, you either have to use it, or put it in a trunk.

For example: You're holding a fake key, a pistol, extra ammo, and a healing herb. You come up to the 'puzzle.' The 'puzzle' is to swap out the key for the fake key. Well damn... all your pockets are full! There is nothing to be done! You had better walk back to a chest to put away your healing leaves or something, because it is quite impossible to simply swap out the key. In my case, i fired off all my ammunition to free up the space. Boy, that made perfect sense for me to do didn't it!

So there's my bit on the inventory management. That isn't my only gripe. There's these zombies. Ok, fine, I like zombies... well you know... to kill them anyway. They moan, and groan, and kind of shuffle around. You shoot them a few times, and they fall over dead. Well after awhile, they get back up. Fine... they're zombies, they shouldn't be killed by a few pistol rounds. But see... when they stand up... they now have the ability to run as fast as your character... and SPIT ACID! Wonderful. Acid spitting superzombies. Note to self: DO NOT SHOOT ZOMBIES. The only way to permanantly kill a zombie is to dowse it in kerosene and light it up. So now you have to carry a can of kerosene, and a lighter with you. This leaves the two spaces that you need to have open to swap items for lame puzzles, and no room for anything else. So obviously, you dont go lighting zombies on fire. The only other way to permanantly kill a zombie is severe head trauma. You can either randomly hit them in the head with your pistol (your elite forces trooper has apparantly never heard of the firing range because he/she rarely manages the shot even though you usually engage at point blank range), or you can step on their heads. I mean, stepping on their heads seems like a no brainer. Unfortunately, unless you can get one of them to grab at your legs, your character will never stomp them to death. You will gingerly step over the not-quite-dead corpse, afraid to get goo on your boots. And then they come back, chase you down, and spit acid in your face. All for being so polite as to not squish their heads while they're incompacitated.

In conclusion, I know I didn't get very far in this game. Quite honestly, I didn't want to see what was going to go wrong next in this train wreck of a game. Don't get me started on the whole sticking knives into zombies' faces... and then not retrieving them ("There's GOO on it! EWWWW!") I saw absolutely nothing scary in this game, I was not moved by the characters, I was not hoping that they would survive. In fact I was hoping that they would all die, because they all deserved to die for being so completely incompetent. Apparantly S.T.A.R.S. doesn't perform very intensive interviews or background checks on their agents.

So in conclusion:

Moderately pretty pictures.
Worst gameplay ever in the history of everything, ever.
AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE

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