"Why does everyone hate me?"
Louisiana hothouse horror meets a black comedy snuff film - rightfully a revelation when it came out, if not the masterpiece I was led to believe. Enemy design still sucks as much as the last game, get used to fighting a bunch of generic unicolored blobs again! If I have to play one more zombie game that does the whole "there's the normal one, the fat one, and the fast one!" thing again I'm going to be pissed. Plus the F.E.A.R. knockoff stuff here is largely hit-or-miss for me, feeling contrived even at its best. But where this thing really sails imo are in its deeply haunting themes of lower-class suffering at the hands of governmental incompetence - being chewed up, spit out, and ultimately discarded entirely for serving your exact purpose to the best of your abilities. Its undertones of having your desires warped into physical mutations and violent outward expressions, having no choice but to see them as gifts in order to cope with simply existing are just brutal - even in spite of its poorly implemented "choose-your-own-ending" misfire placed insecurely onto the end of them (only one is canon anyway, and the other one sucks). Plot twist is amazing though, genuinely pulled the rug out from under me right in plain sight. It's got eye-popping graphics and memorable characters (Jack Baker > Mr. X). All its DLCs are necessary imo, and add a great deal to this. Even as a staunch Resident Evil 6 defender, this really was the course correction the series needed badly at this time - balances scares, laughs, texture, and action very well. Plus this new engine runs like a dream. I have my gripes but it's a damn fine game. "You're about to see something wonderful." Jesus Christ I hope not..
Louisiana hothouse horror meets a black comedy snuff film - rightfully a revelation when it came out, if not the masterpiece I was led to believe. Enemy design still sucks as much as the last game, get used to fighting a bunch of generic unicolored blobs again! If I have to play one more zombie game that does the whole "there's the normal one, the fat one, and the fast one!" thing again I'm going to be pissed. Plus the F.E.A.R. knockoff stuff here is largely hit-or-miss for me, feeling contrived even at its best. But where this thing really sails imo are in its deeply haunting themes of lower-class suffering at the hands of governmental incompetence - being chewed up, spit out, and ultimately discarded entirely for serving your exact purpose to the best of your abilities. Its undertones of having your desires warped into physical mutations and violent outward expressions, having no choice but to see them as gifts in order to cope with simply existing are just brutal - even in spite of its poorly implemented "choose-your-own-ending" misfire placed insecurely onto the end of them (only one is canon anyway, and the other one sucks). Plot twist is amazing though, genuinely pulled the rug out from under me right in plain sight. It's got eye-popping graphics and memorable characters (Jack Baker > Mr. X). All its DLCs are necessary imo, and add a great deal to this. Even as a staunch Resident Evil 6 defender, this really was the course correction the series needed badly at this time - balances scares, laughs, texture, and action very well. Plus this new engine runs like a dream. I have my gripes but it's a damn fine game. "You're about to see something wonderful." Jesus Christ I hope not..