The Japanese and European versions of the game were compatible with Namco's GunCon/G-Con 45 light gun, making it one of the first off-rail light gun games, whereas light-gun compatibility was removed from the North American release due to shooting games being partly blamed for the motivation of the then-recent Columbine High School massacre. A Microsoft Windows version was released only in China and Taiwan on September 7, 2002.Īs the first release of the Gun Survivor series, this game was a major difference from the main Resident Evil series, substituting the third-person perspective of the previous games to a first-person view. It is a spin-off to the Resident Evil video game series. It was released on the PlayStation in Japan on January 27, 2000, in Europe on Maand in North America on August 30, 2000. Resident Evil Survivor is a light gun shooter video game developed by Tose and published by Capcom.
