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The first Resident Evil lets you play the campaign with either Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield. The two have slight differences but it’s tough to say which of these is ‘canon’ as no future game confirms it. Either Jill or Chris ends up trapped in a cell for most of the story. It’s up to you to decide who that is.
Resident Evil Zero. The very first segment in the Resident Evil story actually takes place before the original RE game from 1996. Beginning on July 23rd, 1998, Resident Evil 0 follows the story of Raccoon City Police Department officer Rebecca Chambers who is also the Bravo Team member of the infamous Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.).
Original Release Date: February 3, 2000. Resident Evil – Code: Veronica was the first game to launch on a console other than the PlayStation 1. Code Veronica was initially released on …
First was Resident Evil 2. Got my PlayStation the Summer of 1998 and it came with Interactive Demo Disc 6. One of the trailers on the disc was for RE2, and it looked amazing, so I rented it soon after. First game of the series I owned was Resident Evil: Director’s Cut Dual Shock Edition, which I got for Christmas 1998.
This page is a summary of the types of games in the Resident Evil series. Console video games are the primary media the Resident Evil series is known for and started as. Following Resident Evil 2, multiple games were scripted and developed simultaneously leading to the non-linear numbering and naming of the games that doesn’t necessarily designate any as “main” or “spin …
the first video game with actual zombies is resident evil 1 or just resident evil. no….the very first video game with zombies was an arcade game called House of the Dead
So I’m ashamed to admit that the first game I ever played was RE:Survivor. Despite it not exactly having a glowing reputation, it still hooked me into the RE series. It was easy and helped me get drawn further into the RE universe.
Resident Evil HD Remaster. The first Resident Evil game was revolutionary, not just for effectively setting the stage for survival-horror games to …