The Rise, Fall, and Future of Resident Evil: A 2-Part Video Series

Endless sequels and remakes -- Out of ideas.

Finally somebody that can replace Danny, comedy lacking though.

Many forget that the real star of the first RE game was the mansion itself. From the first moment, you feel that there is something wrong with the place, and it goes farther back than the monsters.

At one point, you enter a small kitchen with a bookshelf blocking a door. Clearly, at one point people were living and working here but they were not aware of the door, or not allowed to enter. Moving it is simple enough but it leaves you with this feeling that you're supposed go in there. The zombies are not just enemies - if anything they seem just as trapped in the mansion as you are. Trapped by (oh yes) the resident evil.

In the following games, this aspect seems to have been largely overlooked - now it was simply about making your way through a zombie outbreak. But... RE4 managed to capture that lightning in a bottle again with its unsettling religious undertones. It's a pity it got so silly by the end. The African setting in RE5 could have worked great if they had committed to a crumbling society, finally having been dealt its death blow by the bioweapons.

I'd love to watch these videos but gamespot's video player is a stuttering mess. Would it kill you guys to add in quality settings or something?

@Chernnunos: They did. It's in the behind-the-scenes footage.

I enjoyed the demo, and it's definitely more creeping around looking for ~puzzle objects than combat, but frankly I'll wait until it's on sale for $24 around Halloween.

wow this gamespot guy from the title picture looks exaclty like the creep from sin city....

Great videos.

Very insightful and give the fans a snapshot of what was going through the heads of some of Capcom's staff. I think it was nice how many different game developers acknowledged Resident Evil's status and significance in the the genesis of the survival -horror genre, even though technically it wasn't the first.

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Some 5-second countdown plays at the beginning of the video and then nothing after that. Would it really be such a crime to just put them on YouTube?

That was really great. More of this stuff, please!

The remake is ok, but i still think the original is better , despite the graphics improvement and RE2. I ended up uninstalling the remake after finishing it and playing the original again and I did enjoy it way more. But then it could be because it was the first one I played, so it was familiar. Not sure. Resident Evil 3 was ok. Remember Dino Crisis?

RE 7 is the first Resident Evil I'm buying since RE4, it's captured my imagination again, like it did originally.

Lol @ the 'history of resident evil' video, the closing comment was worse than even the cheesiest Resident evil cut scene line.

"It's everything it has been, and everything it will become"

Uhhh.. yeah.. Thanks for that mate.

Also, is that a 5 year old child voicing the advert for the Sportsline website at the start of these videos?

Sorry Joey but the round up statement at the end of the history of video was the biggest cop out. Of course RE is what it was, is and will be in the future but the essence of what makes RE great is what fans debate not some all encompassing but saying nothing statement!

Really enjoyed the "Reviving Resident Evil" videos. It's nice to see Capcom take stock of some of the criticisms with the series' latest entries and it's even greater to see them take a real risk with the 7th game. Looking forward to Jan 24th!

I think Gamespot has some kind of Resident Evil fetish.

Everyday there is some article/video about the Resident Evil serie...that's not really the kind of content that attract people.