Resident Evil 6

[darien87]

Picked it up last weekend and played it for a few hours on Saturday night.

Meh.

I finished the first chapter and wasn't all that excited. There are a few things that bug me about it.

1. The camera - I can't tell you how many times I was trying to run around to put some distance between myself and a monster and the camera would rotate and I would lose track of where the monster was. Very frustrating.

2. Silly things like using the lack of light for cheap scares. In the beginning you can see that Leon and his partner both have little lights attached to their ears that they use to see forward. Then there is a scene where you are in an elevator with 2 obviously infected people and conveniently when they turn into zombies those lights on your head are gone for some reason.

3. I guess the developers assume you know what you're doing but there was no manual with the game. While playing a person joined on me and started playing the other character. Not a huge deal but I didn't know the game was set up for that. There are a couple of settings that affect gameplay that aren't explained. For example there is something called "Agent Hunt". I had no idea what this was so I didn't turn it off. Apparently it allows online people to jump into your game and play as zombies to try and kill you. I wouldn't have known this if the guy that joined me hadn't told me. From now on I'll be turning that feature off.

So far I'm not that impressed. But I'll keep playing to see if it gets any better.

 

[j_garcia]

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/gaming-central/81828-six-comes-out-today.html

A tip, probably should have played Jake's mission first

Another tip, go set some skill settings or you will die a lot.

I am almost done with the game. I don't like that it changed to almost entirely action now, but I like it so far. For the networked game, on the second screen that comes up just switch PSN to "Offline" and nobody can join your game. I actually like the idea that you can join other people's games as the enemies, but not on my first play through. It did take some getting used to compared to almost all of them, particularly 4 and 5, but I am enjoying it.

 

[j_garcia]

Another tip: play Mercenaries! Instead of having to beat the game first, Mercenaries is unlocked from the beginning. This will very quickly get you used to the controls and how things work. There's a LOT of stuff I learned in there "OH, you can do THAT?! COOL" sort of things that will help you in the main missions. How to move effectively, how and when to use melee attacks vs weapons, HEALING (slightly important since there is a sequence to prepare this, it is not automatic), shortcut keys to perform certain actions (like fill your healing), etc... You also earn skill points that, though skills are separate from the main game, the points are shared so you can earn them via Mercenaries.

Yes, the camera is a problem compared to previous versions, though it is not unusual for the series They also made the controls pretty much "action game" instead of the standard RE functions, which is sort of good and bad. It works because most are used to them, but in RE, the same controls as before were sort of expected.

The game overall is good, but there are a few stupid spots, where they sort of tried to incorporate another gameplay type (like high speed vehicles) and it those sections really didn't work; it comes off as cheesy. Unlike previous games, there is little time to explore, this one is pretty much non-stop being attacked or going to the next checkpoint.

There are times where you are dying and get rescued at the worst possible second: as you were about to fire. That means as soon as you are able to recover, you are still dead because the thing that injured you in the first place is still standing right there. DUMB.

As you've already noticed, there are spots that give you NO indication of what you are supposed to do, so you either die 10 times before figuring it out or wander around until you find whatever it is. And more than once I have run into a situation where I had no ammo and the game didn't give me any more to fight an enemy that there is simply no possible way to attack any other way.

 

[j_garcia]

Finished the primary missions over the weekend and enjoyed it. A note: Leon/Helena mission is the "big" finale, so you may want to complete it last. Once all the primaries are completed, Ada's mission is unlocked, and I just started that one.

 

[darien87]

I played Jake's mission for a bit on Saturday night. Finshed the first chapter. But I'm still lukewarm on the game. The beginning of Chapter 2 was so lame that I just didn't want to play anymore. The Javo's were so hard to see in the dark that most of the time I was just shooting blind.

Yeah I hate how you have to mix the herbs and put them into your pill box before you can use them. I found myself dying a lot in the beginning because I kept pressing R2 expecting me to automatically use the medicine.

I can see that this game seems to be more tailored towards playing with another person as the AI seems to be pretty stupid. I had the same problem with the last game. The level where you were fighting Wesker and the girl with the thing on her chest drove me nuts! The black chick kept dying because she wouldn't follow me up to the upper levels and eventually Wesker would just kill her. It wasn't until I played with a guy online that I was able to get past that part.

 

[j_garcia]

I thought it was fun, but it is not about what the RE series is all about IMO. This one comes across as "just another shooter" to me now, and I don't think anyone needs more of those. It was both more difficult and less satisfying than the others.

The Co-op part is cool, but it shouldn't handicap the player at the same time. There were a number of times where I had to start a section over (since you can no longer manually save) after the AI partner either died or didn't help me while they were standing RIGHT THERE.

The shortcut to automatically mix and add your tablets is R2 + square - only works if you have a count of zero tablets currently and obviously, have to have ingredients in possession.

Mercenaries is a LOT harder in Solo mode now too.

 

[j_garcia]

Finished it last night. Ada's campaign was the best one.

 

[installer101]

Well this has convinced me to buy as a used game.