Pre-Release Opinions

I decided to post this on dA because I think there is still a good chunk of Resident Evil fans that are on my watchers list. Also because my personal website has exceeded its bandwidth.

Most of my comments lately have been asking my opinions of the upcoming Resident Evil installments: Operation Raccoon City and Revelations. Since I'm getting so many requests to share my opinion, I decided to type up a blog about it. Please bear in mind this is only my own personal opinion, since that's what people have been asking for. This isn't some fair generalized game review, and I can admit it's biased in my own tastes. I don't know a whole great deal about these games either, as I honestly haven't had the interest to go looking up any information due to my disappointment with the last few games. I don't claim everything I mention as a solid fact, just merely what I've seen from videos and webpages I've been linked to.



Resident Evil Revelations

I've only seen bare minimum footage from this upcoming game. For starters, I am not a very big hand-held gaming fan and don't own any such systems, so it goes without saying I'm disappointed that it's going to be for the Nintendo 3DS. I'm unaware of any ports to regular gaming platforms at this point in time, so I guess for now I can only hope. It seems to be all over-the-shoulder gameplay again, which I could of swore I heard mention early on of it being in the "original style" which I assumed would be classic 3rd person. It may have just been a rumor started by fans though, or I simply just misread something. I was still disappointed with seeing that in any case.

As usual, I'm not crazy about the idea of more new faces joining the ranks of characters. I guess that's just because I'm such a fan of the original games though. To this day I would still rather see some of those original character storylines brought to some kind of conclusion before moving on to these one-hit-wonder characters. The bearded guy whose name I can't even remember- Really hoped it was Barry. I got a better look at him though and knew it wasn't him. Plus I think I would of seen a lot of fans going crazy with happiness at his return and I'd of known about it before seeing it for myself.

From what I recall, I think Jill's voice actress was different. This is a very minor complaint, considering basically every single Resident Evil character has had at least 2 voice actors. But I was getting used to Jill's voice after she had been in REmake, Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil 5, etc. (I'm pretty sure it was all the same voice actress, correct me if I'm wrong). I was just a bit shocked to hear a new voice was all, it sounded completely different.

All else I know of Revelations if fan gossip, with many hopefuls claiming that Resident Evil is going back to its roots of real survival horror. A video with gameplay footage I saw I suppose did have an element of horror to it, though it seemed almost Silent Hill-esque to me. Something with a monster chained behind a door apparently. But who knows, maybe the old-school fans wishes will be answered and we may get ourselves a scary Resident Evil game again. Though I must also go to say, that loud noises and thrills aren't all that made Resident Evil a scary series, at least not for me. The lack of ammunition and health items, plus having to judge when and where to use said items caused a sense of suspense and fear that's truly been lost since 2004. Without those elements, I can't say a few cheap scares will satisfy me.



Operation: Raccoon City

I think I know more about this game as opposed to Revelations. And from what I've seen, well... I'm not very impressed. I really have no excitement to speak of at all for the release of this game. Just the over all setting behind it- being yet another non-cannon side story- had me bored from the beginning. I've had my fill of well, fillers, between the Outbreak Files, Umbrella Chronicles, Darkside Chronicles, and however many remakes of the first Resident Evil they made. I'm not sure if O:RC is made by Capcom, but I could be wrong.

It seems to me that this is just another gimmick using Leon as the leading caller since so many people like him (Ever since RE4, anyway). "Kill Leon". I dunno, maybe I'm a hypocrite seeing as how he is/was my favorite character also. But I don't get all fan-goobly ever time I see his name mentioned, I see it more as whoring out and it seems to only get worse with each game. Ironically enough, I wouldn't mind putting him out of his misery after all the prostitution he's been forced to do, but ah well. Sorry 'bout that mini-rant.

I really have no interest in the "story" considering it isn't even cannon, or at least I damn well hope they won't try to make it so in some story arch. From what I remember it's just an Umbrella team sent in to clean up the mess left behind and eliminate any witnesses. It just sounds like a shoot em' up very loosely based on the Resident Evil series, half the time I think they only give these recent games the title of "Resident Evil" because they know fans will buy it. Kinda like the Paul Anderson flicks but I won't even get into that mess...

The gameplay seems to only dive deeper into the OMFG ACTION!!! style that it's been creeping into over the years. Needless to say, I'm disappointed with that as well. I did read one website with some information that mentioned your character can become infected with the Virus, whether accidental or willingly, and that there is a rare Cure item for the Virus that is dropped by zombies and enemy monsters. Now maybe I'm just nitpicking but I find that hilarious. Why would a zombie be carrying a Cure to the Virus? Wouldn't they have used it on themselves? And if it's a civilian who wouldn't even know what it is, why would they have it to begin with? I know it's just a game and I should suspend my belief a little but come on now. I laughed out loud when I read that article.



I don't plan on getting either of these games on release, whether if I was able to or not. I'm just largely uninterested in either. Revelations would have piqued my interest a bit more had it originally been for a regular gaming platform. I've just never owned or cared for hand-held systems outside of the original Gameboy. I can't really say anything else about these games, and I don't know much about them to begin with. Hopefully this has answered any questions regarding my opinions pre-release of these games.


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