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Resident Evil HD Remaster

November 27, 2014ShooterESRB M

Overview

About Resident Evil HD Remaster

Hailed by many as a masterpiece, this remake of the first entry in the long-running Resident Evil series is now playable in HD. Experience true terror in this genre-launching survival horror classic. The year is 1998. The Bravo Team of S.T.A.R.S., an elite special forces squad, has gone radio silent, and its Alpha Team has been dispatched to the forest on the outskirts of Raccoon City to investigate this mysterious disappearance. Attacked by bizarre and vicious dogs, alpha team members Chris and Jill manage to escape to a mysterious mansion in the middle of the forest. The horrors they encounter there are far greater than anyone might have foreseen...
Story setup
On July 24, 1998, a series of bizarre murders occur on the outskirts of the Midwestern town of Raccoon City. The Raccoon City Police Department's Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS) are assigned to investigate. After contact with Bravo Team is lost, Alpha Team is sent to investigate their disappearance. Alpha Team locates Bravo Team's crashed helicopter and land at the site, where they are attacked by a pack of monstrous dogs, killing one of the team. After Alpha Team's helicopter pilot, Brad Vickers, panics and takes off alone, the remaining members (Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Albert Wesker and Barry Burton) seek refuge in an abandoned mansion, where they split up. The player character (Chris or Jill) finds several members of Bravo Team, including Kenneth J. Sullivan being eaten by a zombie; Richard Aiken, who is either killed by a giant venomous snake or eaten by a shark; Forest Speyer, who is found dead and revived as a zombie; and Bravo Team leader Enrico Marini, who reveals that one of Alpha Team's members is a traitor before being killed by an unseen shooter. Bravo Team survivor Rebecca Chambers joins Chris. The player character learns that a series of illegal experiments were undertaken by a clandestine research team under the authority of a biomedical company Umbrella Corporation. The creatures roaming the mansion and its surrounding areas are the results of these experiments, which have exposed the mansion's personnel and animals to a highly contagious and mutagenic biological agent known as the T-virus. The player character discovers a secret underground laboratory containing Umbrella's experiments. There, they find Jill or Chris in a cell and encounter Wesker programming a Tyrant, a humanoid bioweapon. Wesker reveals that he is a double agent working for Umbrella, and plans to use the Tyrant to kill the STARS members. In the ensuing confrontation, Wesker is apparently killed and the player character defeats the Tyrant. After activating the lab's self-destruct system, the player character reaches the heliport and contacts Brad for extraction. The ending changes depending on the player's actions at key points: in the best ending, the surviving team members escape by helicopter after defeating the Tyrant again; in the worst ending, the mansion remains intact and the player character is the sole survivor.
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At a glance

Released
November 27, 2014
Platforms
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One
Genres
Shooter, Puzzle, Adventure, Action
Play modes
Single Player
Age rating
ESRB M
Time to beat
~17 hours
Media

Screenshots

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Playtime

How long to beat

Player-reported completion times for Resident Evil HD Remaster.

Rushed
11hoursMain story only
Typical
17hoursStory plus some extras
Completionist
32hoursEvery side objective too

Estimated from 7 player reports — a small sample, so treat these as approximate.

Playing together

Multiplayer & game modes

Resident Evil HD Remaster offers various play modes for different gaming experiences.

Play Modes

Single Player

Content

Age ratings

How rating boards around the world have classified Resident Evil HD Remaster. Open a board for its content descriptors.

ACBMA 15+

Strong violence, online interactivity

CEROD
  • Violence
CLASS_IND16
  • Violência (Violence)
ESRBM
  • Language
  • Violence
  • Blood and Gore
GRAC19+
  • Violence
  • Fear, Horror, Threatening
PEGI18
  • Violence

This game was rated PEGI 18 for frequent scenes of moderate to strong violence. It is not suitable for persons under 18 years of age. Violence consists mainly of you shooting at zombie characters with a range of different firearms. Blood is shown and should you manage to achieve a head shot, the zombies head will explode quite graphically with bits of blood and brain on the floor. Corpses remain until you leave the area.

USK18
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