Description: Anyway, Resident Evil has the distinction of being the longest running Survival Horror series of videogames, and is often credited with creating the genre in the first place. This is a point of great contention amongst videogame historians, because unlike most genres, Survival Horror is defined by its themes as opposed to what it requires you to do, making it hard to choose just which games fall into the category. For instance, you can be pretty sure that a Racing game will require you to, um, race. So it¡¯s pretty easy to tell which games are Racing games. But what of Survival Horror? Just how much survival must take place, and how...     ( +expand to view full text )

Description: Anyway, Resident Evil has the distinction of being the longest running Survival Horror series of videogames, and is often credited with creating the genre in the first place. This is a point of great contention amongst videogame historians, because unlike most genres, Survival Horror is defined by its themes as opposed to what it requires you to do, making it hard to choose just which games fall into the category. For instance, you can be pretty sure that a Racing game will require you to, um, race. So it¡¯s pretty easy to tell which games are Racing games. But what of Survival Horror? Just how much survival must take place, and how horrifying does it have to be? The short answer is that there is no answer, so unless a developer announces that their game belongs to the Survival Horror school, there¡¯s no sure way of knowing.