Today is the big day! Resident Evil 5's release date. I'm really looking forward to playing it but I do feel that one thing will still be missing: fear. Resident Evil's dark secret is the fact that somewhere along the way (RE4) they destroyed a genre that they popularized in the first place: survival horror. The new genre should probably be called action horror because there is no feeling of being in a survival situation whatsoever.
I still remember playing the original Resident Evil on Playstation and the dogs jumping through the window or the licker on the ceiling in RE2 and being terrified. I think there are 3 main reasons that I was scared.
1.I didn't have enough health or ammo to kill every enemy
2.If I died, I would have to go back to the last time I saved
3. There were long enough breaks in the action that I built up a significant feeling of suspense.
This post is about a game that has these features. It's about what I feel is the best survival horror game of all time. The Resident Evil Re-make for Gamecube.
If you want to see what Resident Evil used to be all about (fear and challenging survival gameplay that requires thinking) you should definitely pick this up. It's a highly polished and great looking take on the game that started it all. It has more improvements than flashy graphics, the defensive items play a huge part in the strategy of the gameplay and the zombies must be decapitated or burned to make sure they don't come back to life.
Unlike RE4's slightly more challenging professional mode that you can still breeze through, the GC REmake has progressively more difficult modes of play all the way up to the infamous invisible enemy mode.
A lot of people may have missed this because they didn't have Gamecubes when it came out but now you can play it on your Wii! I hope everyone gives this game a shot, it's a high point of a recently deceased genre.
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