Resident Evil 3
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Constant firearm and melee combat against zombies and grotesque bio-organic mutants, with heavy blood spray and creatures that die in gory fashion.
Frequent strong profanity in character dialogue during tense combat and story scenes.
An entire city collapses into a mass-death outbreak; the story centers on corporate atrocity, desperate survivors, and bodies transformed by a bioweapon.
Survival-horror atmosphere with grotesque undead and creatures, sudden scares, and a relentless mutant, Nemesis, that stalks and hunts the player.
Zombies and mutants can be shot apart, losing heads and limbs on screen, and enemy bodies show mutated, torn flesh.
The player shoots and kills infected, mutated dogs that attack as enemies.
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What it is
Resident Evil 3 is a survival-horror shooter and a remake of the 1999 original in which you play mostly as Jill Valentine, a former police officer trying to escape a city overrun by zombies after a company's engineered virus is released. Played from over the shoulder, it mixes gunfights, knife melee, dodging, item management, and light puzzle-solving while a towering, mutating monster called Nemesis hunts you through key sequences. The game is heavy on blood and gore: enemies can be shot apart, decapitated, and dismembered, and the environments show the grisly aftermath of the outbreak. Dialogue includes strong profanity. A bundled online mode, Resident Evil Resistance, pits four survivors against one controlling player and supports voice and text chat with strangers; there are no in-app purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames the player as a survivor and rescuer fighting to stop a corporation's deadly bioweapon and save others, so the extensive violence is aimed at infected monsters and antagonists rather than innocents. The corporate villains are shown as the cause of the catastrophe, and the tone treats the outbreak as a horror and tragedy rather than something to celebrate.
Details
- Developer
- CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
- Publisher
- CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
- Released
- Apr 2, 2020
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