Jake and Sherry have stealth sections and a few bits where they’re running and hiding from superior forces, and a pursuing villain reminiscent of Nemesis from Resi 3. There’s a huge amount of stuff here, and a surprising amount of originality and clever ideas within the campaigns themselves.Īnd each of those four campaigns focus on different mechanics! Chris, the rough-and-tough BSAA agent who was convicted of bicep-based watermelon-smuggling back in Resi 5, has a focus on all-out action. It’s got an Agent Hunt mode, letting you take control of the monsters in other people’s games so that you can fuck them over. It’s got further co-op functionality in that, if you reach a point where two campaigns intersect, it will try to hook you up with people at that point in another character’s campaign.

It’s got four campaigns spanning the same timeframe, which add up to tell one story. What Capcom has done, basically, is take a huge number of slightly unusual ideas, fire them out of a cannon, and name the resulting splatter Resident Evil 6. A gold-plated turd is still a turd at its core, and all that. That said, the best port doesn’t mean much if the core game isn’t up to scratch. In short, this and DmC Devil May Cry indicate that Capcom is taking PC ports rather seriously, and this is a Very Good Thing which is well worth applauding in an early paragraph. I’d even argue that the keyboard and mouse controls are a damn sight better than the confusing and bleaaargh console controls. It’s not exactly amazing, graphically speaking – there’s some low-quality texture work in a few areas, amongst other things – but it’s well optimised, it rockets along at 60FPS, and there are a whole host of graphical options and FOV tweaks in the menus. I like it quite a lot indeed.īefore we get into the rotting zombie meat of the game, though, I want to briefly talk about the port quality, because that impressed me from the start. Not piqued enough that I downloaded the demo again, but enough that, when the opportunity to review the newly-released PC version arose, I took it.Īnd, um… well, despite my so-shaky-they-can-be-measured-with-the-Richter-scale first impressions, I like Resident Evil 6. A little while later, I was linked to a NeoGAF thread explaining a bunch of control mechanics of which I wasn’t aware, and my curiosity was piqued. Clunky controls, an awful setup, and dull gameplay led to me quitting and deleting it before I even finished it. See, I tried the demo of Resi 6 when it came out on consoles last year, and loathed it. This has confused me and weirded me out more than you might expect.

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