Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is a far cry from the classic formula of the historic Capcom survival horror, being in all respects an unusual hybrid, made by mixing fictional universe of the saga of the main dynamic shooter designed exclusively for online and adapted , by necessity, to hold even offline. The result obtained by Slant Six Games is the most distant from the experience you can imagine the typical Resident Evil, while being cataloged as survival.
The elderly gamers will remember for sure the two previous Outbreak, courageous experiments for PlayStation 2, guilty only of having proposed a dynamic online game where the spread of broadband was not yet as widespread and users Sony was just starting to metabolize a strange add-on network to be included in the back slot of the PS2, to access a network still in its infancy. Compared to Outbreak, which told of the escape attempt of some people survived, this Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has a more aggressive gameplay and in line with TPS of this generation, seeking to interpret the facts through the experience of a handful chosen of specialists sent by Umbrella to their attempt to remedy the disastrous situation.
The plot of Operation Raccoon City is located, then, between Resident Evil 2 and Nemesis, affibbiandovi an impossible task according to the narrative development of the official series. Start with the knowledge that their efforts will not succeed the first handicap is a psychological burden on this title. Probably, just to assuage this feeling desperate crusade against the windmills, not much was done to contextualize the action in terms of introductory movies, and even the cut scenes, though present, are very essential when compared with the refined director of the cutscenes of Resident Evil 5 or the latest Revelations, Nintendo 3DS.
The Campaign of the main game will offer a series of missions set, of course, in the town of Raccoon City overrun by a flood of zombies bubbly and full of some opponents easily recognizable icons of the main series as the Tyrant. The proposed objectives are not very elaborate and simply require the achievement of a place, the acquisition of specific information or articles, interspersed with a few boss fight. All this can also be addressed in a cooperative, initiating a game session and public welcoming anyone who wants to join the party, or arranging a private session for just friends. The impact with the game menu, pretty skinny and essential, also voted to online in the context of the choice of a potential single-player game modes, you can not recall the setting for Lost Planet 2 (Capcom always), the whose philosophy seems to permeate in key survival horror, this new spin-off of Resident Evil.
Before you actually get off the streets of the charming town will be called to know all the group members to make then the choice of your alter ego and the three other teammates. The team is led by a charismatic leader, code-named Wolf, and his side will find five other characters who play many different types of classes: Four Eyes, scientist, expert in Bio-Organic Weapon (BOW); Beltway, massive demolition; Vector , a specialist in technical stlealth, Bertha, physician responsible for the good health of the group and then Spectre, sniper purpose. The feeling is that, despite their skills, all members do not offer combat mechanics so well differentiated. It is, however, a leveling functional and related to the initial lack of experience, which requires basic equipment to all members of the team. Fighting with dedication and earning experience points in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, you can customize most every agent of Umbrella Scurity Service Squad, appreciating the peculiar characteristics over time.
The missions will take place both indoors and outdoors, offering maps usually developed vertically over a maximum of two levels. At the beginning of each assignment you can review the deployment of your team, adapting to the one you think is the most effective configuration to realize your goals. Pad in hand, begin to enjoy the gameplay, based essentially on the firefights and the need to make inroads among a sometimes prohibitive amount of undead, always ready to saltarvi neck and, perhaps, you will be engaged in a more meaningful conflict fire with one of the U.S. Army Special Teams, groped sent on site to contain the infection of the G-Virus.
The combat system of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has fighting in environments rich in hedges behind which to protect themselves, but does not exactly all the canons of the present third-person shooter, hitting the player side of mobility with some choices of gameplay quite questionable. The management of the covers, for example, is not assigned to the pressure of a specific key, but simply by continuing to tilt the stick in the direction of the cover. The decision to make, in essence, the magnetic character of every shelter, combined with a game context in which we must not only avoid enemy fire but also the constant physical attack of the zombies, making even the simplest of frustrating battles, forcing the I still scollarvi by a wall or a crate to avoid being attacked regularly.
In this questionable choice of game design there is another, inextricably linked to the absence of a specific command to make the covers. In short: a missing key to the shelter, it also lacks the ability to use the same to give input to bypass the cover behind which you have just posted. In a world where even the action-RPG, as glorious as discussed Mass Effect 3, have developed dynamic hedging, it is inexplicable that a restrictive approach, which actually makes the whole experience somewhat frustrating game.
The defects listed above apply, of course, the competitive online modes of play present in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, although the variety of proposals tends to slightly ease the disappointment. Certainly not the classic deathmatch with some main characters of the saga (Jill and Claire, or Ada Wong Leon) to revive the fortunes of the situation, but the mode and the mode Biohazard Survivors guarantee a decent entertainment, offering the same scenario infested with zombies , but adding a dash of panache thanks to the contest between two teams that opponents face off in a context so dangerous!
The Biohazard Mode is the equivalent of Capture the Flag, and will suggest how objective the recovery of five sequential viral samples, with the need to bring them back to base before the opposing team to be successful. The Survivor mode, however, embodies the essence of survival Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, prompting you to think just to stay alive until the arrival of a helicopter that escorted away from saving the game.
The team of Umbrella, already analyzed in detail above, is contrasted to the United States Special Forces, composed of elements of class exactly mirror the opposing team: Dee-Ay, the group's leader, Willow, reconnaissance expert, Tweed, demolition; Harley, the doctor; Shona, the scientist and Party Girl, a professional sniper. It will be up to you to choose the deployment.
Intriguing idea of the G-Virus infection, transmitted through bites of zombies that will slowly begin to transform you if you are not in possession dell'antidoto spray, making it the blurred vision and worsening mobility of your alter ego. Too bad that this insight has not been developed properly, not leading to anything but death and respawn next to your character. It would have been much more intriguing to imagine being able to continue playing an active role in the play session, the uneasy role of a non-dead, maybe even trying to help their team with a few well-aimed bite to members of the opposing team, while hoping not to remove himself from his companions because of the apparent current state of mutation. Wasted opportunity? Maybe.
Technically Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is a title more than honest, properly leveraging the flexible and powerful MT Framework to create dark and decadent environments, as well as all the monstrosities of the typical franchise Resident Evil. See Hunter and Cerberus in action among a crowd of zombies is always worrying if the Licker disgusting, especially when there agguanteranno from long range with their formidable language. But the design is the work of team members and the Umbrella Special Forces that leaves something to be desired, offering graphic characterizations of the individual elements that make one think more of sociopaths and team of professionals. The visual rendering is essentially identical between Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, achieving on both consoles too slow in some situations more excited and small problems loading some textures. As for the soundtrack, which will not hear anything for a miracle, but the themes of the situations still fit on the screen. Honest, but fluctuating quality, dubbed in Italian.
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