Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles -- Final Opinion.

I've completed Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles for the Wii. The game was advertised as giving you the full story of what went down throughout the Resident Evil saga. Before Umbrella Chronicles the Resident Evil series had become an absolutely silly story made worse by Resident Evil remake and Resident Evil: Zero. Umbrella Chronicles takes the mistakes made in those two games and furthers them into outright ludicrous territory. Don't come into Umbrella Chronicles for any sort of repair to the series' story. Beyond that, the game offers up wonderful levels of cheese seldom reached in video games. It's laugh out loud corny and bad, but it'll provide good entertainment on such a level. The gameplay is fun, but flawed. The Wii Remote actually functions perfectly fine. The problems come in the hit detection. Shots that should stop incoming attacks don't always do so. And the whole all headshots are not created equally issue is present from Resident Evil 4. The graphics are on the ugly side. There's just no way around it. It's an ugly game. The music is actually quite good and works great in setting a tense mood. The voice acting is awful. But then it adds to that 'master of unlocking' Resident Evil charm. Umbrella Chronicles is still worth the ten hours or so you'll put into the game. It lets you shoot zombies and tyrants and hunters and giant spiders and everything else you'd want to see from the Resident Evil series. It's not high art, it's just dumb fun. Really dumb, but fun. I'm giving Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles a 7.5.

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