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- Led by creative director Frédérick Raynal, in the very early 1990s, a tiny team in Lyon mixed Lovecraftian horror with a breakthrough merging of real-time 3D polygonal characters and 2D pre-rendered backgrounds to pioneer what would later be known as the survival horror genre.
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Oct 30, 2009 · None of these newer takes on survival horror have managed to become the kind of archetypes that Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark were in their time. Many have been searching for a new...
Mar 14, 2024 · Nicolas Deneschau, author of the just-released series retrospective Les dossiers Alone in the Dark : Aux origines du Survival Horror, narrates an early demonstration of the game at the Infogrames ...
- The ‘80s: Pre Survival Horror
- Capcom Coins The Term
- Survival Horror’s Golden Age
- How Resident Evil 4 Reshaped Survival Horror
- The Genre’S Future
The proto-survival horror era was put into motion by AX-2: Uchuu Yusousen Nostromo from Akira Takiguchi. It was a game for the PET 2001 that launched in 1981 and was directly inspired by Ridley Scott’s Alien. The goal was simple: escape the spaceship. What was less simple was the fact that this needed to be accomplished while an invisible extraterr...
The scene is set - the ‘80s boomed with titles inspired by classic horror cinema, a medium that was seeing its own spark of innovation in the advent of slasher schlock. Horror was all the rage, with icons such as Freddy Kreuger, Jason Vorhees, and Michael Myers dominating the silver screen. All the while, video game developers were itching to keep ...
Silent Hill wrapped up the ‘90s, ushering in the ‘golden age’ of survival horror. During this renaissance, Capcom launched Resident Evil 2 and 3, branching out from the stereotypical mansion setting to the infected streets of the now iconic Raccoon City. Aside from Capcom’s own continued contributions, the golden age was filled to the brim with now...
Resident Evil 4 changed everything when it launched in 2005, and that influence extends far beyond the confines of survival horror. It redefined the genre for better and worse by emphasizing third-person shooter combat and placing a greater emphasis on action. Guns had always been present but ammo was scarce, so you were better off saving it for bo...
Survival horror’s future is a game of tug-of-war right now. This year saw the launch of Bloober Team’s Silent Hill-esque The Medium - which even features tank controls - but we also got Resident Evil Village and we’re about to get a Dead Space remake. Resident Evil 4 ushered in a more action-oriented era of survival horror and that same shift appea...
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Mar 21, 2024 · Without Alone in the Dark, quite simply, there is no survival horror as we know it today. Way back in 1992, when the original game led us down the haunted hallways of the Derceto...
Feb 16, 2023 · The survival horror genre came into its own in the 1990s with the release of Alone in the Dark (1992) on the PC and Resident Evil (1996) on the PlayStation console. These games popularized the genre with their combination of survival mechanics, such as resource management and puzzle-solving, with intense action and horror elements.
Mar 19, 2024 · by Hayes Madsen. March 19, 2024. THQ Nordic. The original Alone in the Dark is often credited as the game that created the survival horror genre. Despite that massive influence, the early...
The term "survival horror" was first used for the original Japanese release of Resident Evil in 1996, which was influenced by earlier games with a horror theme such as 1989's Sweet Home and 1992's Alone in the Dark. The name has been used since then for games with similar gameplay and has been retroactively applied to earlier titles.
