In 1996 Capcom released the first Resident Evil game, Known as "Bio Hazard" in Japan. This is another incredibly popular franchise to this day. It was released for the PlayStation 1 which gave Studio 4 the opportunity to work on a three dimensional environment. The game was the first of its kind creating atmosphere and tension throughout the gaming experience due to studio 4 from Capcom's attention to the small details i.e. the realism of a cartridge bouncing and clattering along the floor, Graphical violence, a acted introduction sequence giving a real human face to the selectable characters and victims and villeins supported by cut scene animations and voice acting throughout the game.
The genre was the first of its kind and was named "A survival Horror"
This example shows the elements that made it a first of its kind. Another factor is the quality of the back ground graphics, these where achieved to due to the fixed camera feature enabling you to view the area from a fixed view point allowing the artists to draw the backgrounds in a finer quality then the moving characters and objects. This helped in creating a visually new and richer looking environment. Along with the innovative loading methods of the doors opening when entering a new area, cinematic's, (zombie eating head in example) a hostile and tense environment was in my opinion, very successfully achieved.
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