Posts Tagged ‘Resident Evil’

Resident Evil Chronicles HD Collection Now On Sale

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

Good news everyone. Capcom’s HD updates of its fun Wii blasters are now available to buy from PSN.

Resident Evil Chronicles HD Collection is an excellent pair of light gun games that use eight playable characters to explain the events you didn’t see in past Resident Evil games. Stalwarts like Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield are available to play, while there are plenty of classic monsters from the series to shoot down.

Originally released to high acclaim on the Wii, both games have been remastered (stretched) in high defintion, making them more paletable to HD audiences. The game is also Move compatible, and along with the House Of The Dead games, is one of the best reasons to pick up Sony’s peripheral.

Both games are available to buy seperately for £11.99, or available as a pair for the rather bargainous £21.99. Expect a full review in issue 106 of Retro Gamer

What? What is this?! Recently leaked Resident Evil GBC Roms

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

 

It’s hard to believe that a Game Boy Color port of Capcom’s 1996 survival horror hit Resident Evil was once in production.

Developed by London based studio HotGen, co-founded by Fergus ‘Probe’ McGovern, the project was said to have reached 90% completion before Capcom pulled the plug, citing concerns about its quality.

Well a fundraising event to make the roms (there are two builds) freely available online met its target recently, and on Saturday what exists of this canned portable conversion was finally unshackled.

As you’d expect, it’s a fairly basic interpretation of the original, and owing to its unfinished state has a fair share of technical issues - from dodgy collision detection, to any sense of fear and challenge sapped by unlimited ammo, Jill and Chris being super agile and the zombies being super lazy and slow (yes we know slow zombie criticism sounds stupid).

It’s not entirely without merit though, and is certainly an amusing little Resi curio. Those wishing to experience it can do so by visiting here.