Top 25 RESIDENT EVIL Camera Angles 

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RE1 remake has so many beautiful camera angles, as a whole it has my favorite in the series. One of my favorite camera angles is in the aqua ring, after you go through the door after draining the water.

I play the old games always once per year. I dont want to know them in and out. I like to forget something always. It just takes me back to the good old days when life wasnt so adult and tiring.

One of my favorite angles in all of the series is Remake's balcony shot where you find Forest... there's a certain isolation and dread to it that has always haunted me when playing. Each time I played the experience was fresh as the last time

It's so refreshing to have someone who enjoys the original Redident Evil style. Please Capcom, bring it back!

The idea that people can't take 5 minutes of their lives to learn tank controls ( which are not even that hard ) and automatically discard these games as 'unplayable' is ridiculous. The video game industry has fallen.

One of my personal favorite shots in the RE1 Remake is the full shot of the backyard when you go outside for the first time and see the crypt for the Elder. The clouds, the fog, the distant moon… RE1 Remake is a work of art. There, I said it.

With the somewhat resurgence of the survival horror genre, I hope we will see more fixed camera games with creative angles. There is so much potential.

My all-time favourite shot is the RE Remake's east wing 2nd floor bedroom, the one across the insect specimen puzzle room. The camera is positioned under the table to create a feeling that someone is hiding there. Combine this with a single set of candles dimly illuminating the room and a comment about footsteps going straight through the bed - and you got yourself the creepiest room in the entire game without a single enemy or a jumpscare.

Camera angles made it the golden era for me. Slow pace gameplay with hand-crafted angles to amplify the mood made RE an elevated form of art.

This was a really interesting & unique video. I've always admired the fixed angle RE games, but I never thought about ranking my favourites. For me, one that always stands out in my memory is the mansion's top floor mirror corridor from RE1 remake, with the mirror where you can see the reflection of a zombie. Something about it just always felt so creepy and special; seeing the reflection of the zombie and trying to understand how to counter it really did play tricks on my mind when I was younger. I'd for real do anything for another RE game in that style, I miss it so much.

100% agree on the train yard angle in RE2. Such a great moment taking in the refineries off in the distance combined with 'The Marshalling Yard' track. So good.

I personally believe that the remake of resident evil 1 is the best looking game of all time. The camera shots are specifically chosen to benefit the atmosphere and gameplay. The colour palette is amazing, the gothic horror of the mansion and woods areas is just spellbinding. The enhanced mist, rain and other particle effects in the remaster make it look even better. This is the one game that I screen shot all the time to show my friends.

Actually a great idea for a list, the cinematography of the fixed camera games is so important.

Resident Evil camera angles are an underrated form of art that binds beautifully with horror, loved the licker window shot

This is a really interesting subject here. Early RE games had a certain art direction that was something special. While I do enjoy the newer titles with 1st & 3rd person cameras, the classic fixed angles created an atmosphere that is hard to replicate. You could honestly take a screenshot of many scenes in the RE1 remake & turn it into a framed picture, the visuals still hold up after 20 years. Good work on the video Mayo, I agree with a lot of your choices here for the camera angles. It would be a nice throwback to see a modern RE with this type of gameplay, or to have it as a bonus option in the menus.

8:39 - Nostalgia reminder of when I would also reapetedly rent the game as a kid, and due to scratches it would always freeze at the CGI cut scene where you drain the water with crank. And this was before I had a memory card so so many playthroughs were killed there. D:

The dormitory across from the bug/lure puzzle has always given me the creeps. You don't know if there are dead bodies in those beds, there is something looking at you from under the desk and the description for the beds is creepy. I love that first camera angle.

REHD looks just as good as I remembered it looked.

The RE1 remake was just absolutely beautiful

One of my favourites is the mirror shot from RE 1 Remake hallwayas, what an interesting change to gameplay. I think RE 0 had a lot of shots like the fan shot from the 1st place. Lots of animated shots, just look at the train boss fight shot.

great RE content as always, fix camera is an art in RE games, not that OTS is bad but still you can’t capture the same atmosphere with those different camera styles…

I never understood people's hatred for tank controls. They were easy to get used to

love your resident evil content, so glad to see you're planning to do a lot of these

This is the type of content I came to RU-vid for. This is so hyperspecific, I love it.

I thought this would be a meme video about Lady Dimitrescu when I read the title.

My dream RE game is a return to fixed camera but with the graphical fidelity and controls of a modern title.

16:51 I guess you could say your a big fan of that camera angle

My favourite angles are the ones outside the windows, like on the train in re0, you cannot get anywhere near that with a third person camera

That's why Resident Evil is special. Camera Angles that make you panic and then it becomes more enjoyable...

i love it, you always appreciate and look beyond the general stuff, always making good points about underrated things that you like, which makes your content pretty unique and interesting to see.

One that stands out in my mind is from Resident Evil 2, in the underground laboratory, the ladder between the 2 floors, there's a camera angle that is positioned high up and looks down to show the vastness of the underground facility, descending into darkness, with the gigantic overgrown mutated plant clinging to the wall imposing itself on the shot.

making that "watching from the window" camera angle appear only once is such a clever move to really set in the feeling of stalked, with the thing watching you having left and is now watching you from elsewhere

When I saw that spider first time, I was like 'nope' and left the room

I always assumed fixed camera angles in games like these were just a sign of a dated game. This has made me view these games and camera angles in a different light.

Great video, I often think about some of these camera angles and others from old pre rendered backgrounds in video games. Definitely needs a comeback in games.

The 2# is one of my favorites.... first time i see that man on the table, I trembled with fear, sadness, curiosity and a thousand other emotions at the same time. Can't sleep for days because of that angle, just perfect. It's like you said, is more intimate, personal. We can relate more to a dude eating in a restaurant, because we "been there". Great video Mayo :)

Awesome video Mayo! Nice job

A standout angle for me was always the hallway leading to the little room where you meet the first zombie in Re remake. The combination of the angle of a cramped space and the lighting flashes from the window makes it really creepy. Especially when the zombie walk into the frame. It's like you are trapped and cannot escape. Your instinct is to just back off and run away. You are not safe here

My favs are the moon lookout in RE2 and the outside mansion lookout in RE1R

Lets gooo finally ive been waiting for a vid like this

Great idea for a vid, really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on so many of these camera angles that are basically burned into my brain from how much I have played these games. I think it's truly a shame that this type of camera view more or less died out for a long time, though I'm happy there's been an indie resurgence and we even get them occasionally in larger budget games like those by Supermassive Games. I enjoy third person games, but it's kind of tiring how every single game now basically uses the exact same camera system, I really miss the variety we used to have. For your #2 pick, the dining table, I always interpreted those pieces of metal sticking out from the guy's back as forks and knives that'd been stabbed into him. Maybe during the early hours of the outbreak this guy turned and some of the other diners had to deal with him with whatever they had on hand. Or maybe they only /thought/ he was turning and in a mass hysteria murdered this poor innocent guy just trying to enjoy his croissant. It's great how these angles can hint at a story and let the imagination run wild about what might have happened. Really appreciate also how much respect you show to the original RE1 in this video. Way too many people treat the remake as a total replacement for the first game. I consider them to be different, but nearly equally great, takes on the same story that are both worth playing. One of my own favorite shots in the remake is one that takes place in the lab in a room full of hanging bodies that were probably used for experiments. You can see a really eerie hanging mist in the room and it feels reminiscent of a scene near the beginning of Return of the Living Dead in which there's a hanging body in a cold room in a medical storage warehouse.

This is a nice tribute to set camera games. thank you for the effort you put into this!

Man you really gotta play tormented souls, you can be sure you are gonna love it!

After number 2, I walked away and took a dump. As I was sitting on the toilet I was thinking, what could be number 1? In about 10 seconds I thought, the fan room in the lab! It's gotta be that. Amazing. The last time I replayed REmake a couple years ago, I distinctly remember stopping on that camera shot and just thinking, damn this is beautiful. Thanks for this video Mayo. This is like the topic I never knew I always wanted.

I'm just glad Nerrel is getting a shoutout. Good video too.

Awesome video, awesome games. I really enjoyed this one Mayo, keep it up!! \m/

number 15: burger king foot lettuce

The RE2 remake was quite good, dark atmosphere, gory details on the zeds. But the original's lighting always has this weird charm to it. If the remake focuses more on the dark being unable to discern the unknown, the fear from the original is more about what you can see at the present. That being said, my favorite angle in the series is the hall at the second floor in RE2 during the crow ambush. Something about it just oozes a lot of feelings for me. Alongside great photography.

I finally played the remake thanks to your Resident evil videos and enjoyed it. I now really understand why the remake is always listed at the top. It's almost a perfect game. I don't even have the feeling that this game needs another remake (but faster loading times for the door animations on the current consoles would be nice). When I finished the game I knew you would have the Mansion Outside camera angle in this video. That was one of the angles that I specifically walked back a bit to look at for a while.

7:24 "I'm a big fan of those" pun intended?

A Silent Hill version of this video would be amazing.

Also don't forget the Lost in Nightmares Easter egg in RE5 where if you try and leave the mansion (3 or 5 times I forget) it gives you a fixed camera angle for the entire playthrough.

Didn't expect multiple Nerrel shoutouts. Looking forward to the "everyone told me to use gyro" video.

The interesting part about fixed camera angles as you felt like they were surveillance Cameras watching Your every move You felt like you were being watched Who was watching you is the other question? 50% was you the player The other 50% was probably an umbrella scientist watching you from a safe location.

Really didn't realize why and how much I loved the old resident evil's until I started watching your videos. RE1 remake still blows me away.

I forget how honestly beautiful these games are. The cinematography is done so well

Surprised you didn’t mention the graveyard in RE1. Going down the stairs was very frightening for me. You could also hear zombies without seeing them after entering the place

My #1 for me is your #3. Those first three angles in that hallway is so cinematic

Very interesting video. Resident Evil 1-3 are art for me and I know that it is especially because of the great camera angles and soundtrack. It's really a shame that gamers "evolved" in such a way that they find tank controls unplayable and fixed camera angles the worst thing in the world. For me they're some of the simplest controls out there and in conjunction with fixed camera and creepy soundtrack form an addicting, pleasurable, deep experience. Very sad that we probably won't see another AAA game or a game from Capcom or Konami with all this style brings with it, like cinematography, care and subtlety. Maybe someday these companies will perceive that this style is the perfect response for the increasing in costs that result in rushed experiences, mostly seen in the last half of RE2 remake and in the entirety of the RE3 remake.

8:45 that's a really neat story and I can only imagine what fantasies and feelings a child's mind would create in a situation like that. pure mystery and obsession. lovely.

You've got me sold on the fixed angles.

As much as I love modern resident evil games, there is just so much missing because of the amount of character a fixed camera angle cam bring.. Loved the video.

A few lights on in the windows of the background apartment building in 4:05 could've give the vibe that there's still some people left alive and healthy, just awaiting rescue, then, returning after nightfall and find out that the lights are out, wondering if they choose to leave and try to escape or something got to them.

It would be cool if they did a mix of over the shoulder and fixed camera angles. Maybe have the fixed angles when you enter a new building to give it more atmosphere but once you start exploring or fighting it switches to over the shoulder. LOVE LOVE LOVE the cinematic view that fixed camera give you.

There's just something special about these RE games with the fixed angles. Not just the scenes but the music, or non-music, that accompanies them. I guess one question I had is, was there nothing from RE Zero that caught your attention or RE Zero just not worth mentioning?

Favorite camera angle has to be the first Save Room in the REmake. With the warm glow of the lantern and the comforting yet eerie music.

What a great idea for a video. Love this. Still watching but my guess for number 1is the RE1 guard house billiards room with the spider above you.

The problem is gamers nowadays are obsessed with practicality and having full control of their character movement in the name of "fluid controls" that no one seems to care about gaming as an art anymore...which is fine if you're playing an action game or a shooter that requires it...but for a survival horror game you need to include some limitations on the player so they don't break the survival horror aspect of it. The beauty of the classic Resident Evil titles was how they blended in survival horror elements with the artistic beauty of the fixed camera angles that helped creating an awesome atmosphere...and the beauty of the controls was it kept players from getting "too creative"...opressing the player into it system and forcing you to deal with the tools you've got in order to stay alive....and sadly people seem to intrepret that as "Bad controls" when they're actually designed to balance the gameplay in favor of the enemies and making them feel like a geniune threat (Remember how in Remake ONE zombie encounter was enough to make you feel dread). And yes, RE2 Remake was a great survival horror game in it's own right inspite of the lack of fixed camera angles but it was an exception, the only reason that game worked because it used the original level design from the original plus it made zombies very robust against headshots (which lets face it, was a necissity, as stupid as it felt because of the free aim and OTS camera)...but even then the game lost most of it aesthetic beauty and atmosphere from the original precisely because of the camera change. I just hope one day we get an RE game with fixed cameras again...but for now, I'll be enjoying Tormented Souls...

Dude I miss these old resident evil games. I want to play more games like this again.

My favorite is West Extension Hallway. I remember seeing a Crimson Head in the mirror and got scared to bits.

10:13 the frame, the zombie's entrance and thé headshot... This is art !

Such an interesting subject! A bit off topic but my personal most memorable "area" is the basement part in the RE1 OG (you know, that infamous "basement" ) the first time i enter that part, i was so confused and laughed so hard because how stupid the soundtrack is lol Great video as always

This video makes me appreciate camera angles of these games

The camera angle in Resident Evil 1 remake in the mirror room was so genious

I read the title and felt like the happiest senior during 🎶 40 Hits From '40 🎶 🤤 love this idea 👍🍻

Great vid mayo!

It's the west side hallway for me, that shit screws with my head hard. So terrifying.

The Re3 Camera Angles are perfect .The camera perception creates a wild imagination of the surrounding areas and mysteriously tricky ,especially the earlier area's.

The original RE1 from the ps1 which has a pc port named the Classic Rebirth version has a mod name RE Containment which has 3 episodes has unique ways of utilizing the original fixed camera angles and with effective horror to make u think twice of the next steps you will make on the map, very great mod pls try it.

This was a fantastic, novel idea for a video. I'm a new subscriber to your channel and after going through quite a few of your videos I have to say I really appreciate your gamer mind/eyes, Mr Mayo. That might sound kind of.. silly but I do think there's a difference between people who merely play games and people who experience games; I continually find your observations indicative of the latter

These picks were really good

i really wish we get a Resident Evil game again with fixed camera angles. Like a spin-off or a prequel something like the Revelations series

This was a great list. My favourite would be the camera before the snake in RE1. I never had a memory card at first and when renting the game would always get to about the same area. Always stuck in my mind.

You should do a favorite room locations to visit in classic re games. My personal favorites are 1. The spencer lab elevator from re1 original. 2. The 2nd floor balcony where we find Forests body re1 original. 3. The 2nd floor window overlooking the helipad in re1 original where we get the battery. 4. The basketball court from re2 original. 5. The hallway with the locked desk in the rpd 2nd floor in re2 original right before you get to the library. 6. The chiefs office in re2 original. 7. The stars office of re2 original. 8. The eltrain yard where you meet mr x in re2 original and fight a G birkin. 9. The train at the end of re2. 10. The alleyway in re3 with the clothes store where we hear that guy scream as were chasing brad into the bar. 11. The street leading to the rpd in re3 original. 12. The wrecked bus area in re3. 13. The stagla gas station. 14. The train at city hall. 15. The warehouse saveroom. 16. The boutique room. 17. The first traincar we see in re0. 18. The main hall of the training facility of re0. 19. The 2nd floor hall with the red door just down from the double doors of the training facility. 20. The room where we fight the giant centipede in re0. 21. The chruch main hall in re0. 22. The first room after the church bit in re0 just after getting off the elevator. 23. Re0s copycat room from re2s birkins lab where we find enrico. 24. The first cabin in re4, come on the games 17 yrs old i think thats enough to be a classic! 25. The room where we find the tram car in re0. Note: These were in NO specific order i just felt these rooms defined their respective games. 😎

The greatest ever angle in a fixed camera angle game still has to be the one at the beginning of Alone in the Dark where a demon is looking out the window as you approach the house lol.

It would be really cool if you made a list of you favorite demons from all the doom games. Or even better, rank them all lol. I would watch it in a heartbeat

Man the RE1 remake is so beautiful

I just ordered a Philly steak no mayo. I'm saving my mayo for you.

Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica had some very good fixed camera angles too.

0:34 Impossible, a mom that doesn't complain about the constant violence?!

Funny how the fixed camera angle only came to life because the developers had to make a compromise performance wise. At the same time it´s a great choice and improves the mood of the game a lot.

I'd have probably added a couple from the RE2 lab, but great list!

You're the reason I tried RE 1 Remake two years ago and fell in love with it. If I only have time for one this halloween, Alisa or Tormented Souls?

This was a fun idea!

the title is so funny for no reason bro 😭

Excellent list. One angle I would like to add as an honorable mention is the initial overhead angle of the marble room in RE 1 original and remake. The angle is so far away from the character, giving scope to the high ceiling that could end up coming down on them.

Amazing angles indeed. God, I wish I could play these games again without knowing the games already. However, back to the angles. There is one in RE: Code Veronica that I always loved. It is the way to the Ashford Mansion. It is a few years ago, when I played it the last time. But it is a bridge(?) that leads to their small house, away from the place where most of the game takes part.

The main thing that resonated with me in this wasn't the camera angles (although still facinating), it was the scratched cd causing a freeze lmao, had that 1 too many times in my life 😂

Great video