It all feels very like a B-movie, but I couldn’t help experiencing it as a mirror of our current situation, albeit one that is far more extreme. When things pick up in Resident Evil 3, Valentine is attempting to escape the city while being pursued by the monstrous Nemesis, an unstoppable mutant created by Umbrella that you confront in a series of escalating boss fights.
Soon the whole of the fictional Racoon City has been infected and zombified. It has engineered the T-virus into a bioweapon – which, I hasten to add, has been thoroughly debunked as an origin for the coronavirus – and kicked off the zombie apocalypse.Īs the series progresses, the virus spreads through the wider population.
After puzzling your way through the mansion as either Valentine or Redfield (you choose who to play as), you discover a secret, underground lab owned by the Umbrella Corporation. It takes place in a spooky mansion, where police officers Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield are sent to investigate a disturbance and, well, it goes very badly.Īt the heart of the Resident Evil series is the T-virus, a fictional infection that turns people into zombies. The first Resident Evil game, released in 1996, essentially invented the “ survival horror” genre, in which players are given limited resources while they face a variety of creepy foes. The new version has been in the works for some time, and its release in these troubled times is a complete coincidence, but one that highlights the divide we will increasingly see between pre- and post-pandemic fiction.
They form part of that horror-movie cliché, the opening newsreel, alongside briefings from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and images of people wearing face masks.īut ripped-from-the-headlines this is not – the game is a remake of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, which was released for the original PlayStation in 1999. “This pandemic has spread faster than any disease in modern history.” The first words spoken in Resident Evil 3 make an instant impression in the era of the coronavirus outbreak. The latest Resident Evil game is a remake of a 1999 classic
0 kommentar(er)
