It's very flawed, but it can also be very fun. I personally enjoyed it!
The product arrived fairly early and runs fine on my Xbox 360, even when I didn't install it. It came with both disks in darn good condition, however lacked the instructional manual. No biggie though, with the way manuals are nowadays....well, I already have enough toilet paper thank you.
The game itself is okay honestly. It's not as bad as critics make it out to be in my opinion, but it's by no means an "excellently crafted game". It's dumb fun from beginning to end. The horror tossed out for the sake of scripted sequences that take control away from you, and force you to sit through some of the most painfully cheesy action moments that make any "Die Hard" film look believable. However when you actually do get to play, it's some of the best gameplay the Resident Evil series has to offer. It's just in a poorly done setting that waters down the necessities of the player to "run, then shoot, then pray you don't run out of ammo, then run some more and hope you shoot it dead". It works well, yes, for classic RE, but this isn't classic RE. Drop the weight that ties you and you shall soar Capcom. You don't want to make a horror game? Don't make it play like one.
With 4 "exciting" campaigns stories to pick from playing Leon's story, Chris' story, Jake's story or Ada's story. Each story has two playable characters for co-op fun. You should know most of these characters by now if you're a fan (I'm assuming you are) so I'll just shortly summarize how I feel about each one.
Leon's can feel slow and forced. Sort of like a badly dressed ghost at a cheap horror house. It's kind of depressing at times. I recommend beating it first to get it over with. Chris' can actually be more fun, but not by much. Feels like a cheaper Gears of War. Jake's story is the silliest, since you play as Wesker's son, and you can only imagine what he's capable of, but it's much shorter and actually benefits from that. Ada's story has to be the shortest, but wraps up the entire thing, and is mostly just amateur stealth sequences. You can run and gun most of the time, it's pretty pathetic. Jake's story is my personal favorite, since I liked both playable characters, and playing as Jake fist-fighting Nemesis's little brother was undeniably enjoyable....A guilty pleasure sounds more fitting to be frank.
The Mercenaries mode and Agent Hunt mode are surprisingly quite fun and thankfully drop the awkward seriousness of the Campaign. Mercenaries is the same thing it's always been since the older RE games. You hunt down baddies and get a big wombo-combo going, all under a time limit. This time, with a friend, just like RE5. I personally always enjoyed it's franticness myself, it's an addicting little concept. Agent Hunt is just silly. It finally allows you to play as the baddies of the legendary horror series (hold your dry and sarcastic applause, please), in what has to be one of the most half-assed, yet still remains to be so much fun, rip-offs of Left 4 Dead yet. The human players try to complete one chapter and the zombies try to stop them from doing just that. Simple. Silly. But fun...when you can find someone without Infinite Ammo equipped that is.
All in all, it's a wacky entry in the series. Hardcore fans looking for some scares will be displeased no doubt, but for this nice and cheap price (currently less than 20 bucks), it's not a bad deal. Put aside your inner-critic, and play it for what it is, and you just might find there's more to it than you think.Read full review
