One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times.
. But you know what's better? Original Resident Evil. Well, kinda. Look, I'll admit it, basically every RE remake Capcom has put out has been a banger, improving on the games they're based on in all sorts of clever ways, but there's still part of me that yearns for the janky, badly voiced charm of the original PS1 games. Perhaps 'better' is the wrong word, but important? Iconic? Nostalgic? Original RE is all of these things and more.
So it's with no small excitement that I tell you that the original 1996 Resident Evil just got a mysterious new PC PEGI rating has been rated for PC in Europe. Resident Evil was technically already released for PC in 1996, but I guess it's not actually available via Steam or any digital marketplaces these days. pic.twitter.com/hVHlkCWRrxfor years. Thing is, that's a touched-up remaster of the Gamecube remake, not the original 1996 version of the game.
There were actually two versions of OG RE: The one that came out first and its Director's Cut version, which mixes up stuff like item and enemy placement across the Spencer Mansion. The PEGI rating doesn't give much indication as to which version it refers to. Given that the version you can get on PS4 and PS5 is the Director's Cut, though, I'd be surprised if it wasn't that one.a digital release of the original RE.
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