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The Resident Evil series has long had a love affair with the camera — even if those playing it might not. The solipsistic use of the fixed camera in the early games created a sense of claustrophobia — even in a large area like the streets of Racoon City in Resident Evil 2, the closer you got to the camera the smaller your world became.

As technology progressed, Resident Evil moved with it. The camera fixed to the shoulder of Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 4, but still used cutaway shots to create gripping tension when the game's divisive quick time events occurred. The best elements of Resident Evil have always used a love of cinema to convey as much terror as possible — and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is taking the idea even further.

By trapping the player in a first person perspective for the entire game, RE7 restricts you to nothing more than your field of view. As claustrophobic as the tight corridors of the mansion in Resident Evil 1 were, they can't compare to only seeing what is directly before you. It's all part of the game's attempts to scale back — Capcom felt that Resident Evil 6 had gotten too wide-reaching, and they wanted Resident Evil 7 to bring things back to the series' roots.

While the found footage style of the game — Blair Witch and Cloverfield both used a handheld cam to trap viewers inside a similarly restricted field of view — creates a low-tech feel for the game, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard will be anything but. Utilising a brand new engine (RE Engine), Capcom has built it from the ground up to work with VR — and they've worked closely with PlayStation to make the game specifically compatible with PlayStation VR. As a result, Resident Evil 7 will be the first full Triple A title for PlayStation VR.

The game itself is vintage horror storytelling as you head out to a cabin in the woods to find your wife. The isolated cabin creates a perfect location for the story, echoing classics like Friday the 13th and Evil Dead, while the Baker family evokes memories of The Texas Chainsaw Family's Sawyer Family. The story is being handled by Richard Pearsey, who previously worked on F.E.A.R. and Spec Ops: The Line, which means it might have some meta-horror narrative to it as well — both those games played heavily on whether the player could trust what they'd just seen in front of them.

What we played of it blended scares and tension spectacularly, utilising traditional horror film techniques to build tension and then release it with a well-timed scare. With a VR Head Mounted Display attached to your head you cannot escape the terror, but even without it's scarier than any Resident Evil has ever been. Not for the faint of heart, certainly, but it looks like Resident Evil 7: Biohazard will be a must play come January 24th, when it launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.