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Over at Computer and Video Games Dot Com, they've posted an introspective at everyone's... well... hmmm... at least the quintessential survival horror series, Resident Evil.
It's not often a man can claim to have started a whole genre all on his own. Imagine being the guy who first put a square car on a black triangle and called it a driving game, or the bloke in some computer studies lesson who first thought about making two characters fight each other with a variety of moves.But that's exactly what happened here. The Resident Evil story starts in the brain of one very talented little Japanese man - Shinji Mikami. He invented it. He is the super-zombie deep within the offices of Capcom, the central brain, the genius boss character, the man who had the idea of putting some zombies in a place and having you survive. And so it was that 'survival horror' was born.
Sometimes brilliant, often execrable, the Resident Evil series has nonetheless been extremely influential, although Resident Evil 4 distilled the series into a work of absolute genius. CVG.com takes a look at the ups and downs.
Resident Evil [Computer and Video Games]
