By Horace Assar, Courier Staff Writer
It is official. The Resident Evil franchise has resurrected with the release of Resident evil 7: Biohazard.
While it draws from the series’s roots of survival horror it delivers a new level of horror. Players brace for fear in the first-person via creepy door-opening scenes, and the photo realistic graphical style. While moving around a corridor, the simple noise of a bottle hitting the floor, a door closing upstairs or the creak of rusty pipes means I’m constantly spinning Ethan 360-degrees to the point where he must start feeling ill. Capcom has done a fiendish job in driving me mad with the torture of a scare that never comes, that is of course until it comes and somehow manages to still be terrifying.
In the game, you play as Ethan Winters: an average guy with no combat skills. He decides to save his wife Mia Winters when he eventually watches a video sent by her in Bayou, Louisiana. Ethan goes to a place called the Baker estate, where a family of infected bullet-sponge psychopaths try to make him a part of their “family.” He eventually finds Mia in the basement of the estate and attempts to get her out, but Mia turns into this infected zombie-like creature. She stabs you multiple times and manages to cut your arm off with a chainsaw.
My personal experience with the Resident Evil franchise was Resident Evil 4 on Gamecube. When I played the RE7 open beta I was a little skeptical because it was in first-person and Resident evil never had a game like it. But when it released I was glad it was in first-person because it was ten times more scary.
I recommend you buying this game because it is something many of us have been waiting to play. Have fun being tortured, oh and play with headphones 🙂