A team of S.T.A.R.S (Special Tactics And Rescue Squad) members are called to investigate a series of murders near Raccoon City. While searching the woods near the city, the team is attacked by something and they have to retreat in a mansion nearby.

A big mistake...

Player chooses between Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield and starts to explore the mansion, and it soon becomes very clear that it isn't just any mansion, but a hellish place where the undead walk the corridors and other horrors are lurking in the darkness, waiting to eat some heads. While solving puzzles, collecting stuff and shooting monsters, the player has to unravel the mystery behind this mansion and -if possible- get out alive.

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Alternate Titles

"生化危机" -- Chinese title (simplified)
"惡靈古堡" -- Chinese title (traditional)
"RE" -- Informal short title
"Biohazard" -- Japanese title
"バイオハザード" -- Japanese spelling

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Resident Evil
	Septerra Core	Windows	$9.99
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User Reviews

Great game that took and older concept and succeeded big time.	PlayStation	cimerians (48)
9 out of 10 zombies agree: Resident Evil is NNhhGgggggooooouudddddd...!!!	PlayStation	Zovni (8842)
Almost the first, and STILL one of the best...	Windows	Dr.Bedlam (53)
A Great Version of a Classic Game	Saturn	Cody Besett (5)
The host of the virus	PlayStation	ganjathief (47)
I'll take a 2nd of brains please...	PlayStation	OlSkool_Gamer (101)
An okay but flawed game	PlayStation	Remi Spaans (456)
Not the original survival horror title, but the one that re-defined it.	PlayStation	Sycada (178)
Beware of mansions in the hills.	Windows	woods01 (156)
The King of Survival Horror	Windows	Terrence Bosky (5236)

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The Press Says

Just Adventure	Windows	Mar 29, 2003	A	100
Just Adventure	PlayStation	Jul 25, 2002	A	100
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	PlayStation	Apr, 1996	10 out of 10	100
GameFan Magazine	PlayStation	Mar, 1996	98 out of 100	98
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	PlayStation	May, 1996	8.875 out of 10	89
IGN	PlayStation	Nov 25, 1996	8.7 out of 10	87
Retrogaming.it	PlayStation	Mar 03, 2008	8 out of 10	80
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Sep, 1997	73 out of 100	73
Computer Games Magazine	Windows	1997		60
PC Player (Germany)	Windows	May, 1997		60

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Trivia

Significant work on a port to Game Boy Color was completed before Capcom pulled the plug citing quality concerns. This port was a fairly direct adaptation of the original with characters moving about in 3D on prerendered backdrops.

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