Resident Evil: Directors Cut PS1 - Coming to PSN May 28! MGS Also Rated

[jkwest]

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Looks like Sony is serious about adding new "PSone Classics" to the PlayStation Store, as a few original PlayStation heavy hitters appear to be en route. The ESRB has rated five new PSone Classics candidates.

That includes PlayStation system sellers Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil: Director's Cut, both newly rated for release on the PSP and PlayStation 3. Those two blockbusters look to be joined by Spec Ops: Covert Assault, Spec Ops: Ranger Elite and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, all seemingly destined for PSone Classics status.

[Gamma_Winstead]

WOOO! day one on both for me!

[zweet77]

Awesome news! psp go should come bundled with these.Bring on Final Fantasy 7

[PH3AR]

Originally Posted by gamma626

WOOO! day one on both for me!

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[The Don]

I'm guessing there is no date for these releases?

[Rike255]

Oh sweet MGS!! I'm going to buy this as my first PSN Classic game!!!

[dereksworl]

All i have say is............WTF took you so long?!

[Goodintentions]

please dont label it the directors cut if it isnt going to be the actual directors cut .. you got us with that one once .. not again ..

for the record .. RE would be a buy for me .. not sure about MG though i think the gameplay there may be a tad dated now .. and im basing that strictly off the 5 mins of it in MGS4 that i went thru it was a a great trip down memory lane BUT it was hard as hell to try and play it

[Musashi]

Excellent Games. And it's kinda funny that both of them got remade.

[Shin-Ra]

Resident Evil: Directors Cut PS1 - Coming to PSN May 28!
Friday, May 22, 2009, 05:17 PM CST [General]

What is up!

This is my first blog post, so I'll start out by making a quick introduction. My name is Matt Dahlgren, and I am one of the marketing dudes that work here at Capcom. I am the lucky one that gets assigned all things Resident Evil, so will be posting here more often trying to give you some tidbits of information about what is going on with the franchise.

(I don't mean lucky sarcastically, I've been following this series long before I even dreamt of working for the company. Working on RE gives my gamer soul a bit of validation - at least the part I haven't sold to the marketing gods. Heh)

First up for information - Capcom recently announced that it was going to be making some of our original PlayStation 1 titles available for download on PSN. First on that list happens to be the original Resident Evil: Director's Cut, which is going to be available on May 28 for the price of $9.99. This is pretty awesome news, because it is an easy way to experience the introduction of the franchise if you missed out when it came out originally. This is the game that hooked me on this franchise; I still have very fond memories playing this all night with a friend after renting, and dying repeatedly on the first zombie encounter while trying to figure out why playing as Chris Redfield was so effing hard. Scenes come across as super cheesy by today's standards, but for the hardcore, these are things that make the game pretty endearing. It's definitely a classic to say the least.

A quick search on YouTube, I found a pretty entertaining video about Director's Cut, with some interesting British commentary. What YouTube doesn't have, I dunno... Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml-bo...layer_embedded

For more info on Director's Cut - click More.
This game also features both Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, who both appeared in RE5. If you want to check out the back story, this is a cool opportunity to see how these characters were introduced into the series, and how they subsequently put themselves in a position to be repeatedly attacked by zombies for years to come. Such is the life. Haha.

For those who don't know what the Director's Cut version is, this is the updated version of the original game that spawned the Resident Evil franchise, which was released 18 months after the original. It features an "Arranged Mode" which essentially mixes up the item placement, camera angles, and enemy placement, to give people a different path through the game than found in the original 1996 version. The game also includes classic moments such as the dogs that jump through windows and scare the crap out of people, as well as one of the cheesiest live action intros ever made.

(I still remember thinking as a kid - OMG, PS1 can do live action! Yet simultaneous wondering why the acting was sooooooo bad. Haha)

Also, speaking of the original game, the awesome remake that was done back in 2002 on the GameCube is making its way to the Wii under the Resident Evil Archives sub-brand this June. If you didn't own a GameCube, or don't own a GameCube controller, this is an easy way to experience quite possibly one of the best Resident Evil games ever made for only $29.99. For fans who loved the original, the remake is pretty much a completely different experience, full of new levels and enemies, yet still has all the nostalgia and classic moments of the original, with a few twists to keep you off guard.

That's it for now - I'll be back with other Resident Evil related news/commentary, especially stuff on Darkside Chronicles soon.

[Grim Reaper]

source: www.ps3.qj.net



Remember those five PSOne games that were recently rated by the ESRB for the PSP and PS3? One of those games has already been confirmed for release, raising the chances of the other four getting official confirmation too.

Capcom has revealed that Resident Evil: Director's Cut will indeed be getting a PSN release as a PSOne Classic. You won't even have to wait too long, as the game will be on the PlayStation Store on Thursday, May 28, for US$ 9.99.


i have no reason to buy this game. since, i still have the disc version.

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

Cool, I'll check it out when it releases

[PEDXING]

Aren't the rest of the PS One classics 5.99 on the store? Why does Resident Evil get to charge $4.00 more? That's not even a long game. Does that mean MGS and FFVII are gonna be like $20?... Eh, I'd still pay 20 for those two. $10.00 for RE though I dunno.

[Grim Reaper]

castlevania is also $9.99.

[BlackLightShark009]

Cool they bringing that to psn. Would be nice too if we got the first NFS Hot Pursuit that was sick. But seems like Capcom likes putting out classics more than EA.

[fsavoie]

Originally Posted by Grim Reaper

source: www.ps3.qj.net

i have no reason to buy this game. since, i still have the disc version.[/B]

Me too, I've bought it on ebay last year to refresh my memory for RE5! Its nice to see it on PSN though!

[Gamma_Winstead]

if it was 5.99 I would have bought it, but I've got the disk already so no need for a while.

[Shin-Ra]

Don't suppose it comes with the demo of Resident Evil 2. I must have played that a dozen or so times.

[PH3AR]

Originally Posted by gamma626

if it was 5.99 I would have bought it, but I've got the disk already so no need for a while.

I feel so cheap since i dont download anything untill its free like Rag Doll Kung Fu!

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by PH3AR

I feel so cheap since i dont download anything untill its free like Rag Doll Kung Fu!

that sucks. you are missing out on some awesome stuff!