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The game received positive reviews from critics. For example, GameSpot praised the game, describing it as "one of those rare games that's almost as entertaining to watch as it is to play", while Computer Gaming World gave a more mixed review for the Windows version in explaining that they "tried to hate it with its graphic violence, rampant sexism, poor voice acting and use of every horror cliché, however...it's actually fun."
The PlayStation game was a best seller in North America. In total, according to Capcom's Investor Relations website, the original Resident Evil has sold over 2.75 million units. The Director's Cut version, including the Dual Shock edition, sold an additional 2.33 million copies. It was also a bestseller in the UK. The PlayStation and GameCube versions of the game have sold 6.43 million units in total as of September 2011.
It was one of the first games to be dubbed a "survival horror" (it coined the term with the phrase "You have once again entered the world of survival horror", which is displayed while the player's saved game is being loaded). Accordingly, Game Informer referred to "the original Resident Evil" as "one of the most important games of all time" in 2007. The original game was put into the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008 for the "Worst Game Dialogue Ever". In 2012, Time named it one of the 100 greatest video games of all time.
Read more about this topic: Resident Evil (video Game)
Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)