Resident Evil 7 was considered a return to form for the series critics praised the gameplay, graphics, and design, but criticized the boss battles and the final chapter.
It was presented as virtual reality, Kitchen, a year prior to its announcement at E3 2016, and supports the PlayStation VR headset. The development was led by Koshi Nakanishi, director of the 2012 Nintendo 3DS game Resident Evil: Revelations. Resident Evil 7 is the first full-length game to use Capcom’s in-house RE Engine. It is the first main series game to use the first-person view. The player controls Ethan Winters as he searches for his wife in a derelict plantation occupied by a cannibal family, solving puzzles and fighting enemies.
Diverging from the more action-oriented Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil 7 returns to the franchise’s survival horror roots, emphasizing exploration. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom, released in January 2017 for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and in May 2018 for the Nintendo Switch in Japan.
