Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Original title	Biohazard 7: Resident Evil
Studio	Capcom
Publisher	Capcom
Senior Developer	Koshi Nakanishi, Hajime Horiuchi, Keisuke Yamakawa
Erstveröffent- lichung	January 24, 2017 January 26, 2017
platform	Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One
Game engine	RE engine
genre	Survival horror
Game mode	Single player
control	Gamepad , mouse , keyboard
medium	DVD-ROM , Blu-ray Disc , download
language	German
Current version	1.04 (December 11, 2017)
copy protection	Denuvo , Steamworks
Age rating	USK PEGI
information	VR version for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive was released in 2018.

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is a survival horror - first-person shooter made by Capcom . The video game was released for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 and Xbox One , the Playstation 4 version is playable with PlayStation VR . It was developed with the RE engine specially designed by Capcom for the game . Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the first part of the Resident Evil core series, which is played in the first person view .

Resident Evil 7 was announced during the Sony presentation at E3 2016. Later, the teaser, titled Resident Evil 7 Teaser: Beginning Hour, was released on PlayStation Store , which was supposed to showcase the ideas of the development team. The teaser shows the first short section of the game in a modified version from the final game.

Gameplay

The player controls the protagonist Ethan from the first person perspective . As with previous Resident Evil games, he has access to a wide variety of weapons including pistols, shotguns, flamethrowers, explosives, and chainsaws to fight opponents. However, according to the developers, one should not expect a "gun festival" in the game, since ammunition is relatively scarce, especially in the higher levels of difficulty. T. can take many hits. As in previous parts of the series, this part again contains puzzles, resource management and medicinal herbs. Unused items can be kept in an inventory box, stored both in automatic storage points and manually on old-fashioned cassette recorders . This time, however, there were no quick-time events at all .

The PlayStation 4 version of the game will be playable in VR mode with a Playstation VR headset from start to finish and will not differ from the core mechanics of the gameplay . For PC or Xbox users, there is a cross-save function for both platforms called Xbox Play Anywhere , which contains a free version of the other platform.

action

The game is set in the fictional city of Dulvey, Louisiana , in the southern United States in 2017, roughly four years after the events of Resident Evil 6 . The game's protagonist is Ethan Winters, a civilian who has fewer martial arts skills than most of the main Resident Evil characters. Ethan's search for his missing wife, Mia, leads him to a shabby plantation mansion that is the home of the Baker family.

In the Bakers' house he finds a video tape from a three-person film team filming a documentary. Of this, only Clancy, the cameraman, survives. In the basement he meets Mia in a cell and frees her. Then she disappears. Then his daughter Zoe calls him. However, Mia attacks him shortly after the call and cuts off his hand. Then the two fight each other, Ethan with a pistol, Mia with a chainsaw, and Ethan can ultimately assert himself as the winner. After Mia is defeated, Ethan is passed out by a man named Jack and wakes up at a table with human remains for food. Sitting at the table are father Jack Baker, mother Marguerite Baker, son Lucas Baker and Eveline. Ethan escapes from the blackboard and is called again by Zoe. During the course of the game, he is often called by her. Soon a policeman is at the door, but Jack kills him, giving Ethan a gun. From then on, Ethan can move freely through the house and later also through the surroundings.

In the boathouse there is Marguerite, who mutates at the end and can be hunted down in the greenhouse. Then he learns from Zoe that an antidote can be made with a D-Series arm and head. He finds the arm in the boathouse. Then he is called by Lucas, who tells him that Ethan gets the head if he participates in an "activity" for him. He finds another tape on which he sees Clancy during the "activity" in an escape room . For a password he needs a key which is in a barrel full of oil. In the end, Clancy burns as the oil leaked into the room. When Ethan is in the escape room, he does not have to pull out the key because he knows the password and does not burn. He finds the head in Luca's hiding place and brings it to Zoe. It makes two antidotes.

Ethan then kills Jack by injecting him with the antidote. After the boss fight, the player has to decide whether to inject the antidote to Mia or Zoe. If you choose the former, you go with Mia in a rubber dinghy to the ship, which is stranded. Eveline was transported on the ship. The boat capsizes and you play Mia from now on. If you choose Zoe, the boat also capsizes, whereby Zoe dies. Mia followed Ethane and the following is almost identical to possibility 1. Ethane is captured by Eveline. Mia manages to save him. On option 1, she pushes him out of the room and locks him out. With option 2 she transforms again and you kill her for good and flee from the boat into a mine. If you've fought your way through this, you end up back in the house and Eveline can inject a poison found in the mine. She transforms into a giant Molded, but Ethan eventually kills her with an Albert-01. Albert is owned by Umbrella, a company that is already known from older parts. An umbrella agent introduces himself as Chris Redfield, who is already known from several games in the series. Depending on whether you have chosen Mia or Zoe, Mia lives or not.

Voice actor

role	German speaker	Original speaker
Ethan Winters	Marc Oliver Schulze	Todd Soley
Mia Winters		Katie O'Hagan
Jack Baker	Wolff von Lindenau	Jack Brand
Marguerite Baker	Monika Müller-Heusch	Sara Coates
Lucas Baker	Linus Kraus	Jesse Pimentel
Zoe Baker		Giselle Gilbert
Eveline	Lara Trautmann	Paula Rhodes
Peter Walken	Gilles Karolyi	Robert Vestal
Andre Stickland		Christopher Ashman
David Anderson		Hari Williams
Alan Douglas		Kip Pardue
Chris Redfield	Michael-Che cook	David Vaughn

Extensions

extension	publication	Scenarios / modes	Plot (short version)
Prohibited footage 1	January 31, 2017 (Season Pass)	bedroom	When Clancy (known from the " Beginning Hour " demo) escaped from a locked room in the Baker family estate without being caught by Marguerite.
		nightmare	The objective of the mode is to survive as Clancy through proper use of weapons, traps, and resource management until 5am in the basement of the Baker Estate.
		Ethan has to die	A much more difficult game mode than in the main game; with the aim of defeating Marguerite in the greenhouse. (no PSVR support)
Prohibited footage 2	February 14, 2017 (Season Pass)	21st	A modified version of the game blackjack in which Lucas Baker lets Clancy play for his life against another prisoner.
		Daughters	From the perspective of Zoe, the player experiences how the tragic fate of the Baker family began.
		Jack's 55th birthday (extra mode)	In this mode, it's the player's job to stuff Jack with tons of food on the occasion of his birthday. (no PSVR support)
extension	publication	description
Not a hero	December 12, 2017	This expansion is intended to show the real end of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and is seamlessly linked to its plot. It is played from the perspective of Resident Evil veteran Chris Redfield, who is on the hunt for Lucas after Eveline's death at the end of the main game.
Zoe's end	December 12, 2017 (Season Pass)	This expansion also ties in with the main storyline and shows what happened to Zoe Baker after Ethan fled with Mia. A new playable character is also introduced with Jack Baker's brother Joe. His job is to heal the infected Zoe and free it from the property. Only his muscular strength and his experience as a survival expert are available to him.

Reviews

The trade press mainly gave good to very good grades. The return to the roots of the series was praised.

"Conclusion:" Finally there is tension and horror again instead of action and explosions! Resident Evil 7 looks fresh on the one hand, but at the same time is surprisingly close to the original survival horror of the classic from 1996. «"

- 4Players (Rating: 87% for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC; 88% for Virtual Reality)

Conclusion: »Resident Evil 7 revives the series. A real horror highlight thanks to the first person perspective and the outstanding atmosphere. ""

- GamePro (rating: 88% for PlayStation 4, Xbox One)

"Conclusion:" With Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, there was no classic Resident Evil back, but rather a new beginning to the well-known video game series, but the title still has a lot of potential and can skillfully play it off. ""

- PS4Info.de (Rating: 4/5 for PlayStation 4)

“Conclusion:“ Before Resident Evil can begin to shape and renew the genre again, it must secure its status. With this game, the project was successful. ""

- PC Games (Rating: 82% for PlayStation 4, Xbox One; 83% for PC)

Sales figures

Just three days after the release, more than 2.5 million units were brought to customers.

Publications

In addition to the standard version, several special editions have also been published, which contain additional digital game content and sometimes physical collector's items, such as B. contain a miniature replica of the Baker estate or a USB stick in the form of a doll's finger, although these differ slightly in scope and design in the various countries. On February 2, 2018, the "Gold Edition" was also released, which contains the main game and all additional digital content directly on the disc. Only the (free) extension "Kein Held" has to be downloaded additionally. The first edition of the German standard version was accompanied by a voucher for free entry to a live escape room event based on the game , buyers of the PS4 version also received a dynamic design for the PlayStation user interface.

Trivia

• The game is the first of the series that has the original title "Biohazard" in its name outside of Japan.
• In Japan the name of the game is complementary to the European and American ones, there the title is: Biohazard 7: Resident Evil .
• There is virtually no reference to previous events in the franchise throughout the game's main campaign. Only a few, daring allusions such as B. a painting of the Arklay Mountains (where the mansion of the first part was) or the mention of the fictional city Racoon City, known from the first three parts of the main series, in a newspaper article can be found in the course of the game, but have nothing to do with the plot to do. Only at the end of the game and in the DLC "No Hero" appears with Chris Redfield, a main character and the former bioweapons company Umbrella from earlier parts.
• The setting of the game (a neglected, lonely farm in the south of the USA, a supposedly degenerate , cannibalistic backwoods family) is strongly reminiscent of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, the "dinner scene" shortly after the game begins is even a direct one Allusion to a similar scene in the first part of the series.
• The Albert 01-R pistol, which can be unlocked after playing through it once, is named after Albert Wesker, one of the main antagonists of the Resident Evil series.

Web links

Commons : Resident Evil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Resident Evil series

Individual evidence

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