The OG Resident Evil and its surreal live-action intro just hit GOG, with Resident Evil 2 and 3 joining "soon"
Jun. 26, 2024Thank GOG for that
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The original and un-remadeResident Eviltrilogy is officially coming to PC for the first time since their CD-ROM ports, and Resident Evil 1 is available now.
“The good news does not end on Resident Evil 1,” the storefronttweeted. “Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 are both coming soon to GOG, and you can pre-purchase them in our convenient bundle containing all three Resident Evil games!”
Resident Evils 2 and 3 were also, of course, remade in more dramatic fashion recently, swapping the original static cameras and tank controls for tighter third-person views that feel like you’re practically breathing on the protagonist’s shoulders. Expect a very different kinda horror if this is your first time with the classics.
My favorite thing about this announcement is actually the GOG pages themselves (you can check out Resident Evil 1hereor the trilogy’s bundlehere.) GOG itself has an amazing game preservation initiative, but in this case, GOG also preserved “how Resident Evil was described to gamers when it launched all those years ago.” PublisherCapcomsold the game as “completely uncut” with “unprecedented detail-intense text maps” and two protagonists “both bought to life with realistic polygon character graphics,” which is a cute throwback. Oh, and the original live-action intro is waiting to be witnessed on the storefront (and above this paragraph) too if you want to see 1996 encapsulated in four minutes.
Resident Evil’s PC re-release also has a few extra improvements with a better “timing of the cutscenes,” “game video player,” “game registry settings,” and full support for all the modern controllers you’d expect. The GOG release includes all four originally localized languages too: English, German, French, and Japanese.
See where (or if) the originals placed in our10 best Resident Evil games of all-timeranking.
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