Saturday, May 17, 2014

Resident Evil 6: Overall Review & Final Words

Hey guys! It's been a long time since my last post so here's to getting back into the swing of things!
This post is just to wrap up things on RE6 which I feel that I just left hanging, so here's my overall review of the game.

Overall Review
  
It must have been a few months since I finished that game but my opinion on the game in its entirety has not changed since then. I initially meant to cover each of the four campaigns individually with a general recap for the whole game, but I don't think it's necessary at this point in time. So how did I find the game?

I was greatly disappointed. Resident Evil 6 did a great job at making me lose respect for the entire series, it drifted far from the classic scare you out of your seat game and chose to gravitate towards a comfortable co-op game that is the zombie and gun equivalent of a hack&slash game. Even while playing at the Professional difficulty I didn't experience any fear from the game. I touched on this in a previous entry, in that because you always go through the campaign with a companion, be it AI or a 2nd player, the fear is greatly downsized because you have someone with you. This was almost remedied by the Ada campaign where you had to play by yourself, up until Capcom released an update that paired Ada with a random, generic, faceless grunt with a gun. I am disappoint.

I had such high expectations for this game because the last RE game that I played was Resident Evil 4 for the Playstation 2. It felt nice seeing Leon again, but meh. While the graphics are superb, the story is too predictable, and the entire game is just forgettable. It's not one of those kinds of games that sticks with you long after you played it. A game that makes you regard all of the hours you spent playing it as extremely worth it. Sigh. The only thing that I'm glad about this game is that I can finally move on and review other games.

With the recent release of "better" zombie apocalypse games, RE6 is better off just taking a back seat to some of the new games such as 2013's game of the year, The Last of Us, which I will be reviewing at a later date.

Keep an eye out for new posts since I have a lot of games on the list!

-Kiboo