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Oct 30, 2009 · Despite falling outside of the "survival horror" criteria, the original Doom and Quake were gritty action games with hellish imagery, known to scare the crap out of more than a few players.
- 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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The History of Survival Horror Games. The commonly accepted first video game would end up being Atari’s Pong, and its arrival in 1972 would signal the beginning of a medium that now sits right ...
Mar 13, 2022 · Capcom may have coined “survival horror,” but as we’ll see in this exploration of the genre’s history, Resident Evil was merely a popular pioneer for a type of game that had already existed for more than a decade. The 80s and the Age of Interactive Horror.
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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.
Dec 23, 2018 · The following year would see Capcom branch out the fledgling genre with the dinosaur-themed survival horror Dino Crisis, but while it shared many of Resident Evil’s traits, it was far more ...
