Eventually Ethan runs into the home’s residents, the Baker family, and that’s when things take a turn that’s much more in-keeping with Resident Evil. It’s a terrible place that only gets worse the more you explore. If you’ve played the RE7 “kitchen” demo, the surroundings will look familiar. Rooms are filled with piles of rotting garbage, and the remains of putrid meals are scattered around the kitchen and living room. He arrives to find a massive, disgusting, and seemingly long-deserted home. (Yes, the character who is MIA is named Mia.) After three years of no contact, he receives a mysterious message from her telling him to come to a house in Louisiana. You play as a young man named Ethan who is investigating the disappearance of his wife, Mia.
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It’s very different from the fast-paced recent entries in the series - but that feeling doesn’t last long. Early on you’re mostly wandering around and looking at things. The shift to a first-person perspective, combined with a relatively slow pace, gives a feeling reminiscent of narrative-focused indie games like Firewatch and Gone Home.
Initially, RE7 almost doesn’t even feel like a Resident Evil game. Rest easy: Resident Evil is terrifying again. It maintains the best parts of the series - a methodical, brutal form of horror combined with a tense and challenging take on survival - and grafts them onto something that feels modern and new.Īnd while the more recent entries in the series, in particular the disappointing Resident Evil 6, focused on action and gunplay at the expense of scares, RE7 does the opposite. Its measured pace and focus on exploration harkens back the original Resident Evil, but a new first-person perspective and stunningly detailed visuals makes for one of the most vicious and powerful horror experiences ever created. The seventh entry in the series, which launches tomorrow, similarly alters the formula in dramatic ways. When the series debuted in 1996, its slow-paced, exploration-heavy take on zombies was so influential it spurred a whole new genre dubbed “survival horror.” A decade later, Resident Evil 4 shifted directions with a pitch-perfect action experience that’s arguably the long-running series’ highlight, and helped shape the look of action games in the years that followed. Resident Evil is at its best when it’s doing something new.
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