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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: Episode 98: Resident Evil 4
Description: When Resident Evil first came out in 1996, it wrote the book on what 3D survival horror was meant to be. Fixed camera angles, a creepy atmosphere, tank controls and bizarrely themed puzzles - these were now synonymous with the genre, whether you liked it or not. And for the most part, people liked it very much indeed, with its mainline sequels (and a couple of the spinoffs) sticking to and refining what made the original so compelling.It's no surprise then that Resident Evil 4 was released to some degree of controversy. It takes elements of the originals tha...