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Player Guide: The Original Resident Evil

Date     : 2022-02-17
Entry ID : 12754
Game  ID : 3153

Seven Resident Evils

A survey of the different versions of the first Resident Evil:

Bio Hazard (JP PSX March 1996)


Resident Evil (US PSX March 1996)

- Censored cutscenes for violence

- Disabled auto-aim

- Less ink ribbons

Resident Evil: Director's Cut (PSX Sept. 1997)

- Seems like the best version!

- Adds ADVANCED and TRAINING mode

- Standard gun has random crit chance

- Difficulty should be like original Japanese version

- Adds auto-aim

Resident Evil: Dual Shock Ver. (PSX Aug. 1998)

- Maybe avoid this one!

- Analog controls

- Bad soundtrack credited to Mamoru Samuragochi (although he didn't write it)

Resident Evil (GC 2002)

- Complete remake

Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (NDS 2006)

Resident Evil (PS4 2014)

- remaster of GC 2002 version

I have settled on Director's Cut being the best version to try, as it seems to be more or less the same as the original Japanese 'Bio Hazard', with a slightly better handgun.