Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (also known as Biohazard 7: Resident Evil (バイオハザード7 レジデント イービル, Baiohazādo 7 Rejidento Ībiru) in Japan) is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom. It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in January 2017, while a few years later, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions were released in June 2022, along with the upgrades for Resident Evil 2 (2019) and Resident Evil 3 (2020). An iOS port are released in July 2, 2024. A Sequel, Resident Evil Village was released in 2021.
Plot
The story follows Ethan Winters in the search for his wife, Mia, which leads to him being a derelict trapped inside the Baker family home. Ethan uses various weapons and tools to fight against the Baker family and the creatures known as the "Molded".
Why It Rocks
- The game introduces the blocking mechanic (which was also carried into Resident Evil Village and made even better). It is a good way to defend yourself from attacks, especially the ones from the molded.
- In contrast to the previous two major titles (Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6), this game maintains the series' classic survival horror foundations, originally revived in Resident Evil: Revelations.
- The game is played in the first-person view, which heightens the stress because adversaries are not as visible as they would be in the third-person view. The first-person view was also carried into Resident Evil Village.
- Amazing and well-done graphics and effects, courtesy of Capcom's incredibly built RE Engine - which would later fuel the Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 4 Remakes, along with Devil May Cry 5.
- Once again, it's impressive to port to iOS, despite a problem with the Apple devices (See at BQ#)
- The Baker family are great villains, with each harkening back to many horror film villains and, unlike other villains in the franchise, having a tragic backstory. They took in Eveline after they found the tanker containing her out of the kindness of their hearts three years before the game's events. Doing so led to them being driven insane by her powers, which turned them into the monstrous cannibalistic family that Ethan faced off against.
- Jack behaves like a Slasher villain; he can take multiple hits, patrols the halls of the main house, and is a reoccurring boss.
- Marguerite is a monstrous villain. She has the power to unleash insects at you and has many nests, mostly comprised of giant wasps. While she patrols the halls, she's much slower. This changes when you get to her boss form when she mutates off-screen into a human spider who attacks you in the attic. Her boss fight is also in the Ethan Must Die minigame.
- That's not even the worst part. She's growing a hive in her body, and her dress and the angles can show it's increasing across her stomach and groin.
- And if she catches you from the ceiling and you don't break free in time, she kills Ethan by ripping him in half vertically and pulling his legs apart like a wishbone.
- Lucas behaves like that of Jigsaw from Saw. Instead of directly facing you like the previous two, Lucas has built traps you must maneuver past and some that you must avoid while solving puzzles.
- Great voice acting, most notably from Jack Brand as Jack Baker. Ethan and Mia's actors/actresses would later reprise their roles in the successor.
- It has an exciting plot involving a murderous family. It also goes in-depth about a husband (Ethan) who goes to Louisiana to save his wife (Mia), and the latter is later possessed onward.
- A wide variety of weapons, including pistols, shotguns, axes, flamethrowers (primarily helpful against bugs), explosives, and chainsaws.
- Interesting boss battles, like the aforementioned fights of Jack and Marguerite; with the latter, it gets even more terrifying due to the bugs already mentioned.
- The franchise's golden boy, Chris Redfield (even though he looks like a different person here), appears at the end of the main story and becomes the protagonist of the DLC Not a Hero.
- Speaking of which, the DLC Not A Hero (as mentioned) has the player playing as Chris Redfield, who is trying to save his teammates and hunt down Lucas.
Bad Qualities
- As mentioned above in WiR#4, it's still considered the inferior port, as it still has a problem with 2 games, with the same frame-rate issues, the same low-quality texture, and the same performance issues, particularly the overheating on your phone.
- And thankfully, unlike 2 Resident Evil iOS games, the touch control is a little bit better, but still. But you can change your controller to a Bluetooth controller to improve controls, just like 2 Resident Evil games.
- Also, the game was only playable on A17 Bionic Chip hardware: iPhone 15 Pro.
- Compared to other likable Resident Evil protagonists, such as Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy, Ethan Winters is a rather boring protagonist who barely has any good emotional range and has almost no personality whatsoever; thankfully, he was improved to be a better one in Resident Evil Village
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