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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:
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)