Resident Evil Turns 30

About this episode

The episode celebrates the 30th anniversary of Resident Evil, exploring its impact on the survival horror genre and its defining mechanics.

Leave us a Message or A Comment Here! Resident Evil is 30 years old, which is honestly unreal, and we couldn’t let that date pass without a long, slightly chaotic love letter to the series that helped define survival horror. We get into the nuts and bolts of what makes Resident Evil feel like Resident Evil: limited ammo, hard choices, that slow dread when a door opens, and the way fixed camera angles and pre-rendered backgrounds turn “not seeing everything” into pure tension. We also talk abo...

Topics covered

• Resident Evil
• survival horror
• video games
• game design
• game mechanics

Keywords

• Resident Evil
• survival horror
• limited ammo
• fixed camera angles
• video games

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Books & works: Resident Evil