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Design wise, they were a brilliant way to put players under the right amount of pressure, and keep the overall pacing of the game flat lining once most of the regular monsters in an area have been killed. They were big, vicious tank like brutes whose main goal was to relentlessly stalk players throughout the map. The original Resident Evil trilogy introduced two major creatures to the game: Tyrant/Mr.X (Resident Evil 2) and Nemesis (Resident Evil 3). And these are assumptions based off of a small chunk of the game. There are design decisions in the original that feel like they work purely because, or were answers for, the limitations of the static camera system.Ĭapcom seems to have taken this situation as an opportunity to just overhaul the original game entirely, allowing for a possibly better paced and more focused game to emerge. Cool?).īut for another - and this requires removing your rose-tinted glasses, purists - when I think of the original Resident Evil 3 : Nemesis, its pacing and structure is a bit scattered compared to the other two entries in the original trilogy. Certain key events from the original don’t seem to happen as I remembered them, in the same time or place, which is not necessarily bad.įor one, it will keep things surprising for veterans of the original (OK. In the chunks of the Resident Evil 3 Remake build I played, the layout and pacing felt radically different. Access to different areas are still designed by an insane egotistical eccentric, that require collecting fancy bobbles conveniently left lying around and/or cryptic arrangement of things to open doors. Equipment management is still a big deal, where the mixing of herbs for health and gunpowder for ammunition both frees up space and creates necessary upgrades to resources. Jill still has to save via typewriter save points strewn throughout the map, although the need to carry typewriter ribbons seems to be absent. But in the ’90s, all the bio-weapons going ape and man-is-truly-the-monster themes were fresh, and the first three Resident Evil games were at the forefront of this sort of setting in video games. It’s understandable if newcomers need help unrolling their eyes from the intense blast of cliches I just hit you with. Most of the city’s civilian population is being zombified by the Umbrella Corporation’s T-Virus, and those unlucky few that have not been infected are being hunted by all manner of biological weaponry. Jill is the main protagonist: a member of Racoon City Police Department’s special S.T.A.R.S unit, trapped in an apocalyptic nightmare brought about by corporate greed. From what I played, what remains of the original PlayStation release is more the fundamental structure and ideals:

“Reimagining” seems to be a better description for Resident Evil 3 than remake.