Resident Evil

Resident Evil is a 1996  survival horror  video game developed and published by  Capcom  originally for the  PlayStation . It is the first title in Capcom's  Resident Evil  franchise. Players control  Chris Redfield  and  Jill Valentine , members of the elite task force  S.T.A.R.S. , who must escape a mansion infested with  zombies  and other monsters. Conceived by producer  Tokuro Fujiwara  as a  remake  of his earlier  horror game   Sweet Home  (1989), the development of  Resident Evil  was led by  Shinji Mikami . It went through several redesigns, first as  Super NES  game in 1993, then a fully 3D  first-person  PlayStation game in 1994 and finally a  third-person game . Gameplay consists of action, exploration, puzzle solving and inventory management.  Resident Evil  establishes many conventions seen later in the series, including the control scheme, inventory system, save system, and use of 3D models superimposed over  pre-rendered  backgrounds. Resident Evil  was praised for its graphics, gameplay, sound, and atmosphere, although it received criticism for its voice acting. It was an international best-seller, and became the  best-selling PlayStation game  ever at the time. By December 1997, it had sold about 4 million copies worldwide and had grossed more than $200,000,000 (equivalent to $346,000,000 in 2021). Resident Evil  is often cited as one of the most influential and  greatest video games . It is credited with defining the survival horror genre and with returning zombies to  popular culture , leading to a renewed interest in  zombie films  by the 2000s. It created  a franchise  including video games, films, comics, novels, and other merchandise. It has been  ported  to  Sega Saturn ,  Windows  and  Nintendo DS . In 2002, a  Resident Evil  remake  was released for the  GameCube  and ported to other platforms in 2015. A sequel,  Resident Evil 2 ,  was released in 1998, and a prequel,  Resident Evil Zero , in 2002.