Press release: 1997-06-10: Sega to unleash new and updated Resident Evil horror onto Saturn

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Sega to unleash new and updated Resident Evil horror onto Saturn

10th June 1997

SEGA EUROPE LTD announces that it has signed Resident Evil from Capcom, one of Japan's leading software companies, for the Sega Saturn. The new title, which will include additional gameplay features, will be available across Europe from September.

"The Resident Evil agreement is an important addition to our release program this year," comments Malcolm Miller, Sega Europe's Chief Executive Officer. "It continues our policy of signing up top quality games for release under the Sega brand and it is great news for gamers as it will take the total number of Saturn games available in Europe towards 250 by Christmas."

The Saturn version will offer a number of exciting new features including:

    A Fighting Coliseum - An exclusive Saturn mode where players get to fight it out with enemies from the game and compete for time, points, and rankings. This major new feature will be activated once the main game is finished to add a whole new element to playing Resident Evil.
    Exclusive new Saturn enemy in the form of a new "Sickle monster"
    complete with a deadly new attack pattern.
    Addition of a second dreaded Tyrant monster.
    New character costumes.
    More user-friendly options. 

Gamers everywhere will already know the basic plot of Resident Evil. The player can choose to play as one of two cops, each with their own storyline, who enter a haunted mansion to blow away zombies, monstrous spiders, mutated snakes and a host of other mysterious horrors.

Fortunately there's an enormous range of weapons to use including knives, pistols, shotguns and even flame-throwers. Certainly, this is not a game for the faint-hearted! This all-action title also features puzzles to solve, traps to disarm and mysteries to uncover while trying to avoid a blood bath in the gigantic mansion, secret underground lairs, garden, graveyard and guesthouses.

Other highlights of the new Saturn game include stunning interactive 3D environments along with 3D polygon character graphics for added realism and an ominous digital surround soundtrack and voiceovers.

Resident Evil joins a growing number of titles available to the one million Sega Saturn owners in Europe.

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