I’m very much in the setup for the final act, it feels like-both based on what I’ve seen in Resident Evil 3 and my existing knowledge of the timeline from Resident Evil 2. I’d guess I’m towards the end, the relatively normal streets of Raccoon City having given way to (shock!) a secret Umbrella Corporation laboratory. I’m still planning to finish it, and who knows? Maybe it will win me over yet. Now I too can join the legions of forum dwellers arguing about where Resident Evil lost its way, and how much action is “too much.” Bottom line Turns out I was a fan of the classic Resident Evil formula this whole time, and only impeded by the tank controls. The linear level design, the combat focus, the cheap one-shot deaths (and annoying checkpoints), the omnipresent and omnipotent Nemesis-it’s like they made a game from all my least favorite aspects of Resident Evil 2. Certainly not faffing about with heart-shaped keys and arcane statues.Īre my expectations tainted by Resident Evil 2? Absolutely, and I’m sure there are people who didn’t get on with that brand of survival horror, and who might fall in love with Resident Evil 3 and its more action-oriented pacing-or fell in love with it 20 years ago, and are looking to rediscover that feeling. “There’s a weird door over here,” Carlos says, and then his partner reminds him they have an objective and that objective entails walking straight down this hallway with an assault rifle.
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It doesn’t have nearly the same depth.Īnd revisiting the Police Station a bit later as Carlos is just salt in the wound, as you’re constrained to a mostly linear stretch of hallways between the entry hall and the STARS Office. The opening stretch of Raccoon City holds promise, with Jill darting back and forth from donut shop to subway station to rail depot, but it’s over and done in an hour and then you move on.
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I keep hoping I’ll find an area as charming and intricate as the Police Station, but it hasn’t happened yet and seems less likely the longer I play. They’re not the only ones with one-hit kill cheap shots either.
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And it all happens in the sewers, one of the worst environments from Resident Evil 2 and no better here. Popping them with the grenade launcher kills them, but it’s a long section spent fighting, and fighting, and fighting-and then maybe dying because one of them appeared from off-screen and ate you before you could react. Worse still are the “Hunters.” First encountered in the sewers, these fleshy plant-dinosaurs are capable of devouring Jill whole, which in video game terms means they kill you in a single hit.