Did you slow down the video?
If not, well, then I'd recommend you speeding up the whole stuff a bit, the animations, the movement speed; I know you are aiming for a rather slow pace, like the old Resident Evil games, but it really looks too slow here.
Apart from that, very cool looking, the atmosphere is great;
The weapon handling looks also good from what I can see.
I'm looking forward to see some actual combat.

yes i know it looks way too slow in the video. Wen i record with FRAPS it slows it dramaticaly down. The game without FRAPS runs good. sorry for that...

Well, then, cool - so its even better than it looks in the vid.

For the case that the slow animations are caused by the bad fps you or your scripter probably forgot to make use of the time_step variable

IMO you have to tweak your color a lot, it´s rather too colorful.
Try to use specific color paletts for different level parts like Resident Evil does it:


Also the animations itself arn´t perfect yet. Add f.i. a 'turn around'-animation.

Looks like an excellent start. I must say the movement looks downright clunky, a turning animation would help as Hummel suggested. Color didn't bother me at all; the environments seemed seemed to add a nice bit of tension.

Oh and remove the "There's blood on the door" dialogue. we can see that lol
Unless it's within your characters nature to state the obvious. I never ever see much personality in horror games, at least not from the protagonist. The Suffering managed to create a deep protagonist without much dialogue from him. I thought that was pretty cool.

the only thing that really bothered me:
way too many camera switches. you can barely walk 2 steps without a change of view.
i think this will crush your gameplay a lot and it will start to get annoying very fast (cant see enemies, hard to control, get pushed out of the view when hit or attacked ....).
try to reduce that with smart level design.

i would also rework the textures to fit a color layout. if you use photos you will either have to set a "null lightning" for all textures and use the game engine lights later on, or you will have to rework and tint them to match a color scheme upfront.

i liked the old ResidentEvil games a lot. and since i am not alone here, you might get quite a bit of interest generated all over the web.

cheers

Irrespective of Resident Evil´s awesomeness there is indeed an aspect where you have the chance to make something better than the king: enemy AI!
These stupid bastards don´t stop to walk even when there is a wall in front of them.

PS: don´t forget the ammo cartouche physics with corresponding sounds, was imo a nice little feature in Resi

Hi, I'm the scripter involved in this project
After checking the movie, this was my first thought exactly, however, after checking, it turned out that I already made use of it... i'll look further, It's a retro-fitted code, so I might have overlooked something xD


I am a great fan as well of the whole RE-series.
I will be responsible for the AI too, I will definatly try to make something good out of this...
If interested, have a look here and scroll down, I have already started working on some A* system

http://www.designorhea.com/pages/Downside_Evil/

regards,

now really, resident evil 4 took the genre into a new era and you want to bring it back to the 90ys?
im all for good work and stuff but really, change the pace and camera angles...

IMO they killed the feel of resident evil when they introduced 4. 1,2 and 3 were awesome and the fixed camera, small hallways, the music, etc gave you the 'oh shit, what's around the next corner?' vibe.

Downside Evil looks really good, and you have really captured the 'true' resident evil theme.