{"id":222220,"date":"2025-09-30T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/looking-back-at-25-years-of-resident-evil\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:35:33","slug":"looking-back-at-25-years-of-resident-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/looking-back-at-25-years-of-resident-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at 25 Years of Resident Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/looking-back-at-25-years-of-resident-evil.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/05\/11\/looking-back-at-25-years-of-resident-evil\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to watch embedded media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><span>This is a big year for Resident Evil. Not only did Resident Evil Village just come out \u2013 which <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/resident-evil-village\/resident-evil-village-review-painting-the-ghost-town-red\"><span><span><span><span>is great<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span>, by the way, and you should definitely play it \u2013 but the series just passed its 25th anniversary. Two-and-a-half decades of zombies, questionable characters, and midnight scares. This calls for a celebration. Or a video essay, at the very least.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>We decided to take a look back at the entire Resident Evil series, highlighting which games have meant the most to the overall franchise and the game industry at large. From the original Resident Evil popularizing survival horror as a genre and inspiring countless imitators, spin-offs, and homages, to Resident Evil 4 revolutionizing the third-person shooter and nearly tanking the entire series, to Resident Evil 7: Biohazard taking the series in an entirely new direction, and more, watch above to learn about the developments, circumstances, and impacts of some of your favorite Resident Evil games.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>And before you fill the comments with all of the Resident Evil games that didn&#8217;t make the list, there are a ton of games in this series. To make this project manageable, we decided to only highlight the biggest games in the overall series\u00a0that have had the largest impact on the franchise and game industry. Code Veronica is great, sure, but compared to Resident Evil 4, it just doesn&#8217;t make the cut.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>While we&#8217;re here\u00a0celebrating Resident Evil, why don&#8217;t you check out our <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/video-podcast\/2021\/05\/10\/resident-evil-village-spoilercast-the-biggest-twists-and-surprises\"><span><span><span><span>Resident Evil Village spoilercast<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span>? We also have some <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/guide\/2021\/05\/07\/resident-evil-village-beginners-tips-and-tricks-guide\"><span><span><span><span>tips<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span>, <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/guide\/2021\/05\/07\/how-to-solve-resident-evil-village-abandoned-stone-statue-puzzle-guide\"><span><span><span><span>tricks<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span>, and <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/guide\/2021\/05\/07\/how-to-solve-resident-evil-village-bell-puzzle-guide\"><span><span><span><span>guides<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span>, if you need a little help along your way. If you&#8217;re still not sold on Village, you can also watch us play the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/livestream\/2021\/05\/06\/lets-play-the-first-two-hours-of-resident-evil-village-game-informer-live\"><span><span><span><span>first two hours of the game<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span>, get a <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/exclusive-video\/2021\/04\/23\/resident-evil-village-a-deeper-inside-look-at-the-lycan-4k\"><span><span><span><span>behind-the-scenes look at its fearsome Lycans<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span>, or check out the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/exclusive-gameplay\/2021\/04\/17\/resident-evil-village-exclusive-environment-tour-4k\"><span><span><span><span>titular village<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span> itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Happy birthday, Resident Evil! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/05\/11\/looking-back-at-25-years-of-resident-evil\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to watch embedded media This is a big year for Resident Evil. Not only did Resident Evil Village just come out \u2013 which is great, by the way, and you should definitely play it \u2013 but the series just passed its 25th anniversary. Two-and-a-half decades of zombies, questionable characters, and midnight scares. This calls for a celebration. Or a video essay, at the very least.\u00a0 We decided to take a look back at the entire Resident Evil series, highlighting which games have meant the most to the overall franchise and the game industry at large. From the original Resident Evil popularizing survival horror as a genre and inspiring countless imitators, spin-offs, and homages, to Resident Evil 4 revolutionizing the third-person shooter and nearly tanking&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/looking-back-at-25-years-of-resident-evil\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Looking Back at 25 Years of Resident Evil | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Click to watch embedded media This is a big year for Resident Evil. 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