It doesn’t take much to create a great sequel to a video game that has proven to be a hit with fans. After all, when the original game has managed to create an attractive foundation, all that’s left for developers is to build something bigger, better and bolder on top of it…right? Well, not exactly. Some times, video game sequels don’t just drop the ball, they kick it into a bottomless ravine from which there is no escape.
Resident Evil is celebrating twenty years of zombie-killing action. With toys. Wonderfully realistic toys of their finest characters.
Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi explained how his goal was to "recapture the spirit" of the original Resident Evil 2 which scared my pants off when I was a child.
Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps looks…awight. Not amazing, ground-breaking or innovative, but alright. And being alright, is in itself alright, right? It’s Resident Evil, condensed into a core experience that focuses more on the gunplay, less on the survival horror.
Sometimes, a franchise needs to die. And that death, can be a good thing. After all, you’d like a series of movies to go off on a high note, wouldn’t you? Take Resident Evil for instance. Those movies are as Kervyn likes to describe them, 90 minute adverts for director Paul Anderson to boast about the fact that he happens …
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Capcom expected resident Evil 6 to sell 7 million copies; it only managed 5. It expects the next game to only sell 1.3 million. Why?
Capcom's Resident Evil 6 has been a failure, despite selling nearly 5 million copies.
It would be naive to say climate change is not real — or that …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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