Resident Evil: Director's Cut

Resident Evil: Director's Cut is an arranged version of the original game produced to compensate for the highly publicized delay of the sequel Resident Evil 2. The game contains a new arranged mode with…

80 25 September 1997

Adventure Puzzle Shooter Action Horror

Resident Evil: Director's Cut is an adventure developed by Capcom Planning Room 2, released 25 September 1997 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Resident Evil: Director's Cut is

Resident Evil: Director's Cut is an adventure game developed by Capcom Planning Room 2 and released in 1997. It was published by Capcom. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

On July 24, 1998, when a series of bizarre murders occurred on the outskirts of the Midwestern town of Raccoon City, the Raccoon City Police Department's S.T.A.R.S. team are assigned to investigate. After contact with Bravo Team is lost, Alpha Team is sent to investigate their disappearance. Alpha Team locates Bravo Team's crashed helicopter and lands at the site, where they are suddenly attacked by a pack of monstrous dogs, killing one of the team's members. After Alpha Team's helicopter pilot, Brad Vickers, panics and takes off alone, the remaining members of the team (Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Albert Wesker and Barry Burton) are forced to seek refuge in a nearby abandoned mansion…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Resident Evil series

Resident Evil: Director's Cut is the fourth of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Resident Evil 2 in 1998. Its critic score of 80 is 6 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Resident Evil 4 at 95.

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How it was received

Resident Evil: Director's Cut holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 62 votes.

What it launched against

Resident Evil: Director's Cut launched on 25 September 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Ultima Online and Frogger. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Ultima Online, Frogger.

Cheats and codes

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