Comments on: Resident Evil 6: Can it Redeem the Franchise?

By: Q

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:39:00 +0000

5 was a terrible installment. It failed to be a survival horror and failed at being a 3rd-person shooter. How anyone could actually think that sack of crap is good is beyond belief.

By: Chaostheory6682

Chaostheory6682 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:51:43 +0000

Resident Evil went down the tubes with 4 and I don’t see it coming back. They turned one of the greatest horror mystery game series of all time, into just another lame ass shootem’ up type game. Completely abandoning what made the games so great in the first place. eery, complex, unnique, mysterious, edge of your seat at 2 am greatness. Now they are merely passive, something to pick up for a cheap thrill from the 20 dollar bin.

By: Musser64

Musser64 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:14:56 +0000

I hope it is as good as it looks.

By: dragonbeast99

dragonbeast99 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:04:54 +0000

I’m not quite sure what to say to this. I agree that RE does repeat a lot of its own cliches but at the same time, its the story and characters that really keep it going. RE 6 could be the revival of the series in competition with Dead Space, or it could be another “disaster” (personally I loved it and I never met a single person who hated it) like you predicted.
Dead Space lacks one thing: story. The series ended in just 2 games and the short animated movie that was released covered the back story. Unless the rumors of a 3rd are true, there isn’t much to work with. The artifact was destroyed, the main character faced all his fears, and the series wasn’t really left with anything new to develop. Without any extremely interesting or relateable characters, Dead Space really doesn’t have any hopes for a future in comparison of RE.

Left 4 Dead could be put on the same level as Zombie Land or Shawn of The Dead, its an action game that doesn’t take the whole zombie horror element seriously. Its merely meant to give cheap entertainment with no real story or characters. Thats not to say that its game play is bad, I love the games, but I still feel no attachment to the characters. They have no back stories and no permanency in the series.

RE has a great cast and each new character brought in is given a long, complex history that plays out in relation to their actions in the RE games. The main cast, Leon, Chris, Jill, and Claire have lived on because of it but at the same time there are side characters like Carlos, Steve, Manula, and Ada who don’t always show up but always fill their fans with joy when seen again. Everyone’s excited to see their favorite zombie slayer back to place another hot round between the eyes of an animated corpse.
With this thought in mind, I agree with you in saying that RE should surprise us with a return of characters like Carlos but why stop there? Make it even bigger and say that Steve Burnside has been brought back by one of the few remaining members of the Wesker family to have the Veronica virus extracted from him adding a soap opera theme and reviving the romantic feelings between him and Claire. Manuela’s survival from RE DSC was declared cannon and her immunity to Veronica adds a huge new factor and interest to the villains of RE. With this thought in mind, if Capcom so wishes to bring in more new characters, Manuela still having her pyro powers and Steve having any other remaining mutations from the Veronica virus could be the BSAA’s new elite group formed to combat super powered BOWS and other viral mutants like Wesker. These may sound like wishful fanboy antics but it proves my point that RE has a universe open to possibilities story and character wise.

If this game does not go through, Capcom could take the gamble and do what it did with DMC and reboot it completely. Maybe do so to add in elements of the games that are now replacing it and add to the story things that fans may crave such as certain zombies, character pairings or deaths, and so forth. But that is a rant I will have to do some other time.

By: R.P.D

R.P.D — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:42:59 +0000

they say their supposed to annouce resident evil 6 on septeber 15 and their saying they might make a nother outbreak called resident evil outbreak surviour and go to
http://umbrellasciences.com/index.php
and the website gets haked by a guy from raccoon city to tell people umbrella is evil and that is called
http://insertedevil.com/home then u have to do a series of clues really hard i think RE might go back to his roots

By: Tomas Gonzales

Tomas Gonzales — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:08:19 +0000

In reply to Ben Doherty. I love your idea dude but I think I would like to see Leon Chris jill and claire in the game maybe as playables because those characters are what make Resident evil they are the main characters but thats just my opinion other than your character choice, I love your ideas. =)

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:34:19 +0000

In reply to R.P.D. im agree with you too, i love him <3

By: michael

michael — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:40:17 +0000

In reply to R.P.D. your right dude

By: Bob Krieger

Bob Krieger — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:41:12 +0000

In reply to Ben Doherty. I like the enthusiasm. But I wana see zombies man! and why not take the series back to America !

By: Bob Krieger

Bob Krieger — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:38:34 +0000

In reply to MichaeF. I think Resident Evil 6 should look like RE-make as far as camera view and game control goes. That view is what makes Resident Evil scary, Even though Resident Evil 4 pulled off the over the shoulder view very well. Resident Evil 4 was a breath of fresh air, but resident evil 5 killed the series. Its time to get back to what Resident Evil was made for: be scary and badass . Refresh us with new characters and new story that match what Resident Evil really is, and lets get our franchise back on track so I can start makin new memories with my favorite series instead of more nightmares brought on by shit like resident evil 5