Resident Evil 5 and hindsight

The survival-horror franchise Resident Evil is the reason, I believe, I became a gamer. A series about somewhat average men and women thrust into a no-win situation of zombie variety really made me love what games could and should be. No longer were games about running from left to right, jumping on or punching through […]

Resident Evil 2 should be a series reboot

The recent release of Resident Evil 2 has seemingly revitalized the survival horror franchise the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 2005 release of Resident Evil 4. While questioning the subjective nature of which Resident Evil game is truly the “best” is a waste of time, I can’t help but notice the massive […]

chapter by chapter…Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy, chapter two

Chapter two This second chapter really gives us an insight into the captain of the STARS team, Albert Wesker. The great part of this section is the brief look at the investigation side of the actual case behind the so called “Cannibal Murders” plaguing Raccoon City, something the video games understandably glosses over. The […]

chapter by chapter…Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy, chapter one

In 1998, around the time of the release of the second game in the storied survival horror franchise, Resident Evil saw the first release in what would be a long running (kind of) series of tie-in novels that would see the first four games in the series adapted by author S.D. Perry. We would also […]