The PC ports of the primary three Resident Evil video games at the moment are accessible on Steam, round two years after they had been re-released on GOG.
Though that they had been ported to PC within the late 90s, the unique Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 had not been not broadly accessible for buy on fashionable PC storefronts.
This modified in June 2024, when GOG re-released the unique 1997 PC port of Resident Evil – versus the remake, which began life on GameCube earlier than getting fashionable ports.
This was then adopted by GOG releases of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3, once more based mostly on the unique PC ports fairly than the latest remakes.
Now, right this moment Capcom has launched all three video games on Steam – marking their debut on Valve‘s storefront of their authentic varieties – in addition to Breath of Hearth IV.
All 4 video games checklist the developer as “Capcom Co Ltd, GOG.com” on their Steam pages, that means the variations on Steam are the brand new ports dealt with by GOG.
Every Resident Evil recreation is priced at $9.99 / £7.99 however to rejoice their launch on Steam they’re 50% off till April 15, that means gamers should buy all three video games for a complete worth of $14.97 / £11.97 as an alternative of $29.97 / £23.97.
The brand new GOG releases of the Resident Evil trilogy have been up to date to make sure full compatibility with Home windows 10 and 11. Every recreation contains new rendering choices and numerous fashionable fixes similar to improved cutscene timing, an improved video participant, an improved DirectX recreation renderer and issue-free recreation exit.
In addition they supply full help for contemporary controllers, together with Xbox Collection, Xbox One, Xbox 360, DualSense, DualShock 4, Change, Logitech F collection and extra. Resident Evil 2 additionally makes the unlockable 4th Survivor and Tofu modes accessible from the start.
Final 12 months GOG‘s senior enterprise improvement supervisor Marcin Paczynski informed The Recreation Enterprise that Capcom was initially towards GOG’s request so as to add the unique PC variations of Resident Evil 1, 2 and three to its retailer, and was extra keen on getting gamers to check out the trendy remakes of every recreation.
“Capcom had been like, ‘we’ve all of these remakes. It’s already the superior expertise to these video games’,” recalled Paczynski, who says he was one of many GOG members who led the challenge.
“They didn’t actually see the worth in bringing again the vanilla variations. It took plenty of convincing that there’s an viewers that has plenty of recollections about these video games, and would like to expertise precisely the identical recreation once more. Fortunately, we had been capable of persuade them.”
