Resident Evil 3 Remake Rises From The Grave on Apple Devices
Like a hideously mutated corpse that just won’t stay dead, Capcom has resurrected the Resident Evil 3 remake on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Capcom has also revealed the necessary system specs to make sure the game runs like a panicking survivor being chased by a bloodthirsty horde. It’s available now.
The Resident Evil 3 remake was first released on PC and consoles back in April 2020 to decent reviews, with quite a few highlighting the graphics and the need to have a pretty robust GPU. Gamers have been historically poorly served on Mac, so Capcom have made sure that the remake looks as delightfully terrifying as it should.
“Play with extraordinarily vivid and detailed graphics on any Mac device powered by Apple silicon. Mac users can now experience the horrors with realistic, bone-chilling visuals,” Capcom said on its official site.
Remake Evil
The original Resident Evil 3 was released in 1999 with the subtitle Nemesis, due to the hulking brute that periodically appears to terrorize protagonist Jill Valentine. The remake built upon this by placing a greater emphasis on Nemesis encounters, as well as tweaking the series’ survival horror feel for a more action-oriented one.
Capcom has now remade three Resident Evil games, using its proprietary RE Engine. Although some remakes have been better received by critics and gamers than others, the same can’t be said for their move to Apple devices.
The Resident Evil 2 remake was reported to have sold less than 10,000 copies on iOS by the start of this year. The newer Resident Evil 7 also sold poorly on iOS, but this may be down to gamers needing high-end iOS GPUs as much as Capcom deciding to sell the game, as with the others in the series, at a price closer to a new game.
Undead Specifications
It remains to be seen if the Resident Evil 3 remake will buck this trend, but gamers on Apple devices can at least get an idea of whether they can run it, as Capcom have shared the system requirements.
Mac and iPad gamers will need to have iOS 17.0.0, 17.4.1 or iOS 18.0.0. iPhone users will need to have a 15 or 16 device, and players who want to properly fight Nemesis on iPad can do so if they have an M1, M2 or M4 model.
