Resident Evil 6

Yes as a resident evil game it isn't that good but as a game in itself it is really good. It just struggles with not knowing what it wants to do. Mixing slight horror (one jumpscare), call of duty and gears of war, and you have this. Most of this game is dedicated to combat. Which obviously means it's packed to the gills with action. But it still is a good game however who really deserves more credit is the voice cast, Matthew Mercer, Laura Bailey, Roger Craig Smith, Troy Baker, Eden Reigel and all the others absolutely nailed it. I really hope they come back for a future game.

Being a huge fan of RE series, I have played most of them (with the exception of Survivor titles). This year RE fans are in for a threat: two RE titles out in the same year. Unfortunately, the first one, Operation Raccoon City, is truly awful - I don't even think that it deserves a place in RE franchise. It left me skeptical as to whether the second one, announced in mid 2012 not long after the release of RE:ORC, would suffer the same fate.

Fortunately not. RE6 would somehow make up for the disgrace of its older brother.

The biggest surprise in RE6 is that you've got to play four different scenarios - one is unlocked after you finish the first three - with multiple different characters. While multiple scenarios and characters is nothing new to the RE universe, previously it was never taken too deep. Past ones (like RE2 with its famous zapping system) felt almost nothing more than same scenarios only slightly altered for multiple characters. With RE6, Capcom has taken nice steps ahead. Those stories are inter-connect each other - similar to RE4, but not just 2 stories, it's 4 this time - you'll get the idea when, for instance, meeting Leon while playing as Chris, meeting Jake as Chris, and so on. This results in a nice mixture wrapped up in an amazing big story as a whole. Seriously, not many games offer this.

However, RE fans who fell in love with the series after playing the survival horror genre-defining RE1 might be very disappointed. True to form, RE has since left its survival horror roots in its subsequent iterations, but it's RE6 who takes the biggest defect. If you compare it with RE1, the comparison couldn't be bigger: there's no 'challenging' puzzle solving and scattered eerie personal diaries which RE is famous for (Puzzle solving is present here but in much simpler ways).RE6 gameplay is strictly linear - all you have to do is follow the designated path - pretty straightforward, you see. Besides, it has the intense fast-paced gameplay, i.e. most parts of the game consist of running and shooting. I guess it is something Capcom might never think when they created the original RE back in 1996..Needless to say, the legendary box-item placement is nowhere near, replaced with a simpler item-management tablet (not as many things to pick though, besides medicines, magazines, and weapons) Sure, the game has its own scary points, like abominable monsters and creepy creatures which are still omnipresent in this game, not just zombies. But considering how far this game has departed from its survival-horror root by dropping many elements of it, I prefer to call this is an action game rather than a survival horror title.

Above it all, though the genre is misleading, I found the RE6 is quite decent. Its usage of multiple characters in multiple paths through the great story lines for each delivers well, like having 4 games in one title. Fans of shooters should love it. If you are a RE fan, this is worth trying as well, though maybe you have to pretend that this is not a RE title..

WHAT POSITIVES?

A lot of weapons. Interesting storyline makes you think. Interesting varied sequences of fights with bosses.

WHAT NEGATIVES?

Quicktime ivent's were sometimes very difficult and appeared for a split second. The sensitivity of the mouse left a lot to be desired and there was no way to change it in the settings. Changing the camera often made the character change direction (and that doesn't help in time escape sequences). Timed missions were almost impossible in co-op.

UNTAPPED POTENTIAL!

If the game had more chapters or some FABULAR additional content then RE6 would only benefit!

I very much liked the Resident Evil game that came before this one the same year, that game being Resident Evil: Revelations (2012), that game combined both of my favorites in the series, that being the first Resident Evil game and Resident Evil 4 (2005), and made a creepy fun game; the game that follows in the same year was not the best in the series, but it was not anywhere near being bad. The game Resident Evil 6 (2012) had characters that were enjoyable enough to play by having familiar ones and new ones, the gameplay mechanics are easy enough to use, the graphics are well-done, and I did have fun playing the game; a major issue that can be found in this is the same issue that was found in the game Resident Evil 5 (2009), and it is that this game is more action focused and less survival horror focused like most of the Resident Evil games are supposed to be, which is why this game is hated on by Resident Evil fans who have played it.

Playing as Leon S. Kennedy or his partner in the first campaign and Chris Redfield or his partner in the second campaign was cool, and I like how on both campaigns they are aiming to get rid of or deal with a new virus that has been made and spread around the city, despite having separate ways in doing so and going after a person to save/protect or hurt them. The third campaign where you play as new character Jake Muller who has a significant role in the premise involving the new C-Virus and him having a connection with a character from previous Resident Evil games; he would sometimes be fine to play as, but also needed more characterization, along with his new partner Sherry Birkin who also was from the previous games. Lastly, the fourth and last campaign is where you play as Ada Wong who is on her own kind of mission that connects to the other three campaigns, it is mostly just her finding out certain information that ties back to her in some way and fight back against the new Neo Umbrella.

Each campaign goes a different route in the story and somehow connects to one another in the end, just not as well as it should, and they each have a different length when it comes to playing each one, with Leon and Chris's campaigns being the longer ones and Jake and Ada's campaigns being the shortest ones to playthrough; the story in all the campaigns do feel disjointed as it jumps to a different point in time as you progress through the story ending a chapter. The mechanics were not difficult to use and the way the game looks is well-done, with nice looking graphics and what not; the other major problem, other than the story and some errors in the game, is that the game is more action focused with big over the top action sequences with infected people and mutants, when it should have kept going with the survival horror focus that made us love the Resident Evil video game franchise to begin with.

The action focus is going to turn Resident Evil fans away from playing this game again or at all, which makes sense, but it did not make me upset because I did have fun playing the game, even though the main story can be a bit messy with some errors during cutscenes and missing the horror survival focus the games are supposed to have. Lastly, the game has easy to understand mechanics and puzzles with nice looking graphics and enjoyable enough main characters, so I will say it is worth playing at least once; I understand the hate for this game, but I did not think this game was awful, though this is one of the low points in the series next to the game Resident Evil 5 (2009), I did not hate this game like most people who have.

I'll break this down and try to keep it brief.

Pros: + It looks great, even better than RE5. + Features most of the main characters from the series in a single game. + A large amount of content. + Combat is more fluid than ever. + Leons's campaign is good...

Cons: -...Chris's one is not. Jake's is meh. So that's near enough saying only 1/3 of the game is actually good (should have made Leon's 3 times longer and taken off the other 2). - Waaaaaay too many quick-time events. A lot of the game was broken up because of them. - Far too much action (thanks a lot, Chris). And if you are going to do an action/shooter thing, do it right. The cover system sucked. - Totally throwaway bad guy (at least RE5 had Wesker, but hey, he's dead now).

Bottom line: RE6 is the worst in the series. By trying to appeal to all audiences Capcom have shot themselves in the foot, and totally silenced anyone who still tries to claim the series is survival horror. It's not a bad game, but compared to the others, it's just really disappointing. Capcom should really just think about rethinking the series as a whole, because at the moment it feels like it has nowhere left to go but down.