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But whether it can hold its own against contemporary competition remains to be seen.Īnd there's going to be a lot of it, with one alternative option actually the work of Resident Evil's own creator, Shinji Mikami. An HD remaster of Resident Evil is due for current and previous-gen consoles, and PC, in 2015. What came next was a mix of perpetual dread peppered with jump scares: everyone recalls the dogs crashing through the windows, and having to flee encounters when your firepower proved woefully ineffective against the stumbling undead. The way that first zombie turned and stared, through the screen and into the player, into their skull and down to their soul: the memory of it alone still freezes me.

Resident Evil (original, and Game Cube remake) – first zombie encounter And as ingrained into the grey matter as my own ghostly encounter is the first time I saw Resident Evil in action. The most famous game to have brought survival horror to the mainstream is 1996's Resident Evil, itself inspired by its maker Capcom's psychological horror release of 1989 for Nintendo's Family Computer (the NES in the West), Sweet Home, as well as the similarly mansion-set Alone In The Dark of 1992. Scares are coming back to consoles in numbers, from big-budget Hollywood spin-offs like the hugely anticipated Alien: Isolation, a canon entry charged with repairing the brand damage inflicted by the deplorable Colonial Marines, to indie titles threatening to keep players up for weeks, such as Frictional Games' 2015-slated SOMA, which takes sci-fi frights underwater. In these games, direct confrontation with an enemy can be lethal, as one misplaced shot can leave you helpless with ammo at a premium and health dangerously low. The return of Fatal Frame is well timed, as gaming is going through a renaissance period for horror titles – especially those considered survival horror affairs, where resources are limited and player characters vulnerable in the extreme. Fatal Frame: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden, released for Wii U on September 27th (Japan only)

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