This review contains spoilers
This is a good time consumer. If you enjoy mission based games which only focus on you shooting zombies this is for you. This is easy to play and the unlockable characters are fun. I personally love playing as Hunk. However the controls aren’t the best… but also the best you’ll probably get on a DS.
A very impressive port of RE5's gameplay to the 3DS, considering this came out near the handheld's launch.
Speaking of 2011: I got this for 5 dollars on an eShop sale in 2022, and felt that was the threshold of "fair." I could see people having beef paying full price for this at launch, as it's less of a game and more of a MODE meant to enhance a single-player narrative.
It's still fun for drop-in score attacks. Menu navigation is needlessly weird, and it's also odd the menu makes the Jet Force Gemini "computer noises."
Speaking of 2011: I got this for 5 dollars on an eShop sale in 2022, and felt that was the threshold of "fair." I could see people having beef paying full price for this at launch, as it's less of a game and more of a MODE meant to enhance a single-player narrative.
It's still fun for drop-in score attacks. Menu navigation is needlessly weird, and it's also odd the menu makes the Jet Force Gemini "computer noises."
Capcom ha hecho un trabajo genial llevando el modo de juego de RE5 a la consola portátil de nintendo. También es un gran logro técnico para esta. Al principio es un poco rarillo de manejar pero te vas acostumbrando. El cooperativo debe de ser divertido pero dudo que alguien quiera seguir jugando este juego en 2021. Al final del dia solo es un matamarcianos glorificado pero esta guay si por alguna razon se te antoja matar zombies con hunk o claire redfield.
A $40 tech demo, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is cool in its own right. Especially when you were there in the 3DS' early days. It's very impressive how smoothly this game plays close to Resident Evil 4 and 5! And the novelty of reusing assets from those games isn't really too much of a blight, since you've never seen them "demade" in this way before.
Unfortunately, that only takes the experience so far. Enemy variety is extremely underwhelming, which is a huge misstep when the entire game is centered around slaying enemies and not much else. There's a lot of potential material (all from Resident Evil 4 and 5), but any RE veteran at the time will constantly think something is missing.
The playable characters themselves have plenty of variety, but it gets old when you're fighting the same exact ghouls and beasts over and over again. And over a decade later, the novelty of this game is kind of lost, especially since pretty much all Resident Evil games are playable on multiple handheld systems these days.
Unfortunately, that only takes the experience so far. Enemy variety is extremely underwhelming, which is a huge misstep when the entire game is centered around slaying enemies and not much else. There's a lot of potential material (all from Resident Evil 4 and 5), but any RE veteran at the time will constantly think something is missing.
The playable characters themselves have plenty of variety, but it gets old when you're fighting the same exact ghouls and beasts over and over again. And over a decade later, the novelty of this game is kind of lost, especially since pretty much all Resident Evil games are playable on multiple handheld systems these days.
An interesting offering from Capcom focusing on the Mercenaries unlockable action mode that was popularized in games like RE4 and RE5. This particular games follows the formula of the RE5 Mercenaries mode adapting to the 3DS hardware.
The limitations of the 3DS hardware are evident and the netcode was most definitely not the best for this game but all in all it was a decent effort from Capcom that managed to provide a portable version of one of the most fun modes in RE gaming at the time.
The limitations of the 3DS hardware are evident and the netcode was most definitely not the best for this game but all in all it was a decent effort from Capcom that managed to provide a portable version of one of the most fun modes in RE gaming at the time.