10 Best Video Games Set In A Single Night

6. Resident Evil

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Like the Arkham entry before this, we could include either of the first two Resident Evil games on this list. RE2 takes place entirely on poor Leon S. Kennedy's first day on the job as a Racoon City Police Officer where he must team up with Claire Redfield and Ada Wong to save Sherry Birkin and escape the zombie-infested Racoon City.

If not for the 3-day period that Jill is suffering from the T-virus infection while her new friend Carlos Oliveira has to find her a cure, RE3 could qualify as well.

But for sure, the adventures of Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine in the first game begin with Raccoon PD's very own elite SWAT team, S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics And Rescue Service), getting thrashed by an unknown menace. Of course that menace is zombies and biologically altered people and animals.

Through a single, terrifying, night Jill and Chris have to endeavour to navigate through the trap-ridden Spencer Mansion, thwart a betrayal, survive so-bad-it's-good voice acting, and defeat a massive Tyrant enemy. Regardless of good or bad results - because the original had multiple endings - the surviving member(s) escape the mansion as the sun rises.

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