17: Resident Evil & Zombi

Joining us as a guest on this episode to talk about Resident Evil and Zombi is Louie Roots!

An Interactive Designer and Producer, Louie tutors at Swinburne University, and is also a Director for Freeplay Independent Games Festival.

 

Resident Evil is a 1996 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation. It is the first game in Capcom's Resident Evil franchise.

In Resident Evil, the STARS force (special tactics and rescue service) are investigating strange cannibalized corpses on the outskirts of the city. The Alpha squad, Jill and Chris, are sent to locate missing team members. While there, mutated dogs cause them to flee into a supposedly abandoned mansion.

 

Zombi, directed by Lucio Fulci and released in 1979, is about a group of strangers that are searching for a young woman’s missing father arrive on a tropical island, where a doctor is desperately seeking the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.