![]() Even at the start of the game, Nemesis takes center stage, blasting through a wall after a brief first-person moment as Jill in her rundown apartment. RE3 takes place partly before and after RE2, so we get to see the initial outbreak climax and the explosive end of the city. Zombies roam the streets while various groups are doing their best to get a hold of valuable Umbrella assets. Resident Evil 3’s plot hinges on the release of Nemesis into the chaotic Racoon City following the events of Resident Evil 2. However, Resident Efeels in many ways like a step back from the previous remake, stripping some mechanics in favor of a new dodge and making the main antagonist more of an event rather than a creature. Now, I love the concept of a remake and the stellar ones through the ages is why I get so excited when they pop up. I knew what happened in the story through context given by the other games and the parallels drawn by the films but gameplay-wise I was ignorant. I hadn’t seen a playthrough online or launched the copy I owned. Out of all the numbered titles, I am most unfamiliar with Resident Evil 3. Unfortunately, the bar set by RE2 2019 was so high that I walked away from RE3 2020 mostly disappointed. ![]() Resident Ewas one of my most anticipated releases of this year, following only Final Fantasy VII Remake. This time around, I avoided playing the original RE3 to experience things with no prior expectation and I picked it up as soon as it was available. I had played Resident Evil 2 on the PS1 all the way through not long before that remake launched and when I finally got to the remake well after it launched the package was complete with extra scenarios and goodies. ![]() ![]() Resistance expands its gameplay by, for example, introducing characters who are melee specialists, and giving each Survivor a skill with a long cool-down, and there’s much Machiavellian fun to be had as the evil Mastermind.BOMBASTIC ACTION MEETS ASTRONOMICAL EXPECTATIONįor the remake of Resident Evil 3, henceforth referred to as Resident Evil 3 2020, I put myself in a different state of mind in comparison to how I approached Resident Evil 2 2019. Survivors are placed under extreme time-pressures, but can buy time through positive actions such as killing enemies or healing team-mates. It is certainly distinctive, featuring four-versus-one asymmetric play, in which a group of Survivors must escape each location, while a Mastermind attempts to thwart them by spawning traps, zombies and bosses. Past attempts to add multiplayer to Resident Evil have been patchy, but Resistance has promise. This is quite a short game (as was the original), and while you can just about spin a play-through out for 15 hours or so, the presence of an achievement for speed-running through the story in less than two hours tells you a lot.Ĭapcom has tacitly acknowledged this fact by bundling the game with a separate multiplayer mode named Resident Evil Resistance. But this time the emphasis is on storyline rather than archetypal scary horror sequences, though there a few, including a creepy switch-finding puzzle in an area infested by giant spiders (that inject Jill with maggots which she vomits up when healing herself) and the first encounter with a new enemy in the sewers.ĭespite cleverly tweaking the original game’s story in such a way that it feels more logical and coherent than before (which may offend Resident Evil purists), and providing a general gameplay experience that displays a bit more variation, it doesn’t feel quite as groundbreaking, or as meaty, as Resident Evil 2. The game provides plenty of the franchise’s staple elements, against a backdrop of gloriously modernised versions of familiar locations such as the Raccoon City Police Station (here seen 24 hours before the events chronicled in Resident Evil 2). That adds to the game’s sense of ebb and flow: Carlos is armed with a powerful assault rifle, so his more action-oriented sequences involve coping with large amounts of zombies at a time, whereas Jill’s sequences judiciously mix puzzle-solving and more traditional survival-horror gameplay, in which she must make the most of scarce ammo and whatever firepower is at hand.īut the game has another central character: the seemingly indestructible Nemesis, who relentlessly pursues Jill and provides a number of boss-battles, each of which forces her to take advantage of different environmental quirks, and after which he mutates into ever-more terrifying forms.
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