Discussion VideoGame / ResidentEvil1

1983guy over on Game FA Qs is listing a bunch of shoutouts in Resident Evil 1. I'm using the discussion page as a sandbox to pull the list together before dumping it into the RE 1 page.

• Resident Evil borrowed a lot of things from other games.
  • The camera and mansion setting are directly from Alone In The Dark (1992, PC),
  • The verb palette (Examine, Use or Combine) was taken from Alone In The Dark and Uninvited as well.

  • The zombies were taken from movies like Dawn of the Dead and Return of the Living Dead
  • The deer head in the mansion was taken from either Evil Dead or the Night of the Living Dead 1990 remake.

  • the zombies, are taken from the Dead films of Romero.
  • The giant shark in aqua ring...Jaws anyone?
  • The large alligator in Resident Evil 2 is probably from Day of the Dead, it has undead gators in the beginning
  • The ending of Resident Evil 3, very similar to the ending of Return of the Living Dead
  • The scene in RE 3 where you electrocute the zombies, similar to a scene in Return of the Living Dead 2
  • The deer head from Evil Dead
  • Alexia's shape shifting in RECV is similar to Parasite Eve.
  • The special machine gun you can unlock in RE 2 was taken from Terminator 2.
  • Also, the abandoned town of Raccoon is similar to many Lucio Fulci movies.
  • The design of Birkin's lab in RE 2 is taken from Day of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead 3, etc
  • Leon is dressed like Peter and Roger from Dawn of the Dead.
  • the character of Alfred Ashford in RECV seems to be patterned after Norman Bates, from Psycho. Also, his private residence looks eerily similar to the Bate's residence in the movie.

• Where Resident Evil really shined was in the presentation of it all...the music and the plot, which was much more interesting to me than Alone In The Dark's.

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