Resident Evil: Deadly Silence was released in 2006, as a salutation to the tenth anniversary of the series’ inception. It is the first (and, I’d venture, perhaps the most revered) Resident Evil game, wantonly coerced into Capcom’s shrink-o-matic and compressed into a DS cartridge. This was a tantalising prospect, as this exquisitely convoluted tale of shambling crusty corpses, belligerent bees and gargantuan pestiferous plants had erstwhile never been portable. It’s been everywhere damn else, I’ll concede, chivvied from console to console like the proverbial hot potato (one festooned with disconcertingly formidable explosives at that), ports and other re-release shenanigans abound.
As such, let’s take a look at just what Deadly Silence brought to the first game (beyond the obvious benefit that you could gambol on the sidewalk and wail at strangers, “It’s Resident Evil! On a handheld! Come over here, and caress the screen lovingly, lest I smite you with my stylus! Or, indeed, the DS itself. These were the days when the device was comparable in size to the average walk-in wardrobe, after all.” Should you wish to partake in such lunacy.)
Warp Zoned writes:
"Capcom brought the zed menace back in a big way with Resident Evil. First released on Sony’s fledgling PlayStation console (and eventually re-released 12 times over the next 20 years), the game’s amateurish acting and stiff tank-like controls never obscured the terrifying zombie tale underneath. You might say that exploring Spencer Mansion and delving deeper into the story behind the T-Virus infected players in a way that few games ever had before."
Gamesradar:
Two decades. That’s 20 whole years of hoping this isn’t Chris’ blood. 7240 days of asking whether or not that dude actually just said “Jill sandwich.” 173,760 hours of Albert Wesker insisting on wearing sunglasses at night. You’re almost old enough to buy a bottle of whisky to go with those green herbs, Resident Evil. May you shamble for 20 more.
Resident Evil 1 PS1 =best version hands down ...Remake had some good elements but far from considered the pinnacle, not the same atmosphere/feeling, bad-hollywood copied elements (too dark, less colors, lame filters, Lisa) and Lisa story sheered negatively the plot to a completely new and poor minded direction
Yeah it was a truly great game probably why I feel in love with it on the Saturn played the directors cut on PlayStation 1, remake on GameCube, DS Version and got the ps4 version but not got round to it yet, timeless classic. Resident evil 2 was also pretty tight as well tho looked better and had a great story and setting but yeah 1 was the original and best, 2 was a close second tho. Downhill from there really, my mate came round and did number 3 in a day and I never went back to it Code Veronica on dreamcast was pretty cool and I did really enjoy 4 but it's completely different and things do need to change but how did it go from 4-5-6 to some other tripe. Same with dead space series 1 was great 2 was ok 3 was not played. Haha.
Just in time for Halloween a review of one of the most chilling survival horror games every made, Resident Evil. This time it is portable and still enjoyable after all these years.
