• Resident Evil

    is a cult horror video game license, it had returned to its roots - and to the chills - with its seventh episode in 2017.

  • Resident Evil 8: Village

    is a direct sequel, and follows hero Ethan Winters through a snowy, abandoned village in Europe, Transylvania.

  • Like an amusement park, the game celebrates the figures of the fantastic imagination, from Grand-Guignol to Hammer through ...

    Resident Evil

    ?

    You will understand.

After turning away from horror for even more action, the

Resident Evil

franchise

had taken the time to reflect and reinvent before

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

, a return to the roots and the thrills.

New hero (the anonymous Ethan Winters), new point of view (in the first person and in VR) and new mythology (the mutamycete), this game finally had

Resident Evil

only the title and a nod to the fans at the end.

Building on public and critical success, the publisher and developer Capcom takes the same things and starts over for

Resident Evil: Village

, less VR but with an all-out horror culture, from Grand-Guignol to…

Resident Evil 

?

A fantastic and gothic imagination

Three years after escaping Eveline and the Baker family in Louisiana, Ethan, his wife Mia and their newborn baby Rose now live in Europe, until one night when Chris Redfield, the show's iconic character, arrives with his soldiers for kidnap Rose.

When he regains consciousness, Ethan is near a snowy and abandoned village in Transylvania.

This location is no accident.

The game will indeed have fun invoking the essential figures of the fantastic and Gothic imagination.

As you can imagine, the village is inhabited by different monsters and mutants, it is even controlled by Mother Miranda and her Lords: the vampire Lady Dimitrescu, the werewolf Karl Heisenberg, the mermaid man Salvatore Moreau and the puppeteer Donna Beneviento.

Sounds like a Hammer alumni reunion.

An impressive and immersive achievement

Castle, factory, tank… Each villain also has his own playground, the opportunity for players to test different gameplays and to offer nightmarish visions, baroque, sometimes ridiculous, also unexpected.

It goes all over the place, but the developers assume, and this

Village

soon looks like an amusement and horror park, with a little showy mechanics but with an original cast and far from the all-comer zombie.

Not to mention an impressive and immersive achievement.

The best of "Resident Evil"?

Resident Evil 8

revisits its classics of horror, but also of video games.

If Ethan's first steps in the village are in line with those of the previous game, they also evoke those of Harry Mason in

Silent Hill,

but also, and above all, those of Leon in

Resident Evil 4

, his rural village in Spain, his inventory system and his penchant for weapons.

Considered a masterpiece and a revolution in

survival horror

, the GameCube title marked the change in direction and focus action of the license.

Capcom assumes there too, and tries to bring together the best of all worlds, the best of

Resident Evil

.

And have the best

Resident Evil

 ?

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