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E3 Resident Evil 7
Resident EVII looks to return the franchise back to it’s survivor horror roots
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Genre: Survival Horror
Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC
# of players: 1
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Rating: Price: Rating Pending MSRP $59.99
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
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Started in the Kitchen now we’re Here.
You can only have so many sequels before you essentially make a parody out of yourself. This is why the RE franchise has gone through so many revamps over the years. They defined the horror franchise genre with the original RE game for the PSX but, once that formula had become old and stale, they reinvented themselves with RE:4. Ironically, even though RE:4 redefined the horror franchise genre, going as far as having it’s formula emulated by such games as Dead Space, that very formula that helped redefine it as a franchise is what some people say caused it to lose a major
part of it’s identity. Y’know, they kinda forgot the horror part of survivor horror.
Since RE4 , we’ve seen the series focus more and more on action and QTE , than anything else. This isn’t to say the games weren’t somewhat fun, but Resident Evil minus the horror is like McDonald’s without burgers or sandwiches (sorry vegans)(except, not) (meat, yum). Sure, they have a lot of other stuff that you might like, but when you get down to it, you’re really going there for their burgers and maybe some fries but mostly their burgers–oh, and maybe a 12 piece nugget and a shake. I’m getting off point. The point is: a huge part of what makes Resident Evil,Resident Evil has been missing from it’s last few entries in the series .
Resident EVII (I feel bad for Japan for missing out on this cool and confusing spelling) looks to return the franchise back to it’s survivor horror roots judging by it’s announcement trailer. Whereas the other trailers for the previous two Resident Evil games have focused more on the action aspects of the game, this trailer was obviously meant to focus on horror by creating an atmosphere of of tension and fear. Taking place in a rundown mansion (A throw back to the original Resident Evil) the game takes you down dimly lit, cramped, dilapidated hallways as images of decaying corpses flash across the screen.
Perhaps the most shocking thing is that it all takes place in the first person perspective. I think it’s too early to call Resident EvII an FPS especially since at no point during the trailer do you see yourself shooting a gun. It would be interesting, however, if Capcom had been taking notes from PT and modeled some of the game play after it. It would certainly build tension if, through most of REVII, you were without a gun and had to use items in your surroundings as weapons.
I am almost certain that entire article is gibberish.
A newspaper that can be seen briefly in the trailer offers more clues to the game content as the headline reads “Ghost Sighted in Bayou” this could suggest the introduction of supernatural elements to the RE franchise (they’ve tried in the past *cough* Devil May Cry *cough*). The paper may also hint that the game takes place in Louisiana. Everything on the paper is blurred out except for the headline – you can kind of make out the name of the paper which could read “The Dulac Daily”. Dulac is a small city in Louisiana that I totally didn’t look up on google for the sake of this article. The game could take place in Dulac or it may serve as inspiration for the location of REVII.
It’ll be interesting to see where the franchise goes and how it plans to utilize the PlayStation VR, but we’ll have to wait until the game is released on January 24th, 2017 to find out where a new
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