Resident
Evil 6 – An old kind of evil
New gameplay and
interesting diverse campaigns with great, connected storyline.
Resident
Evil games have been the most longest third person game running
across the survival horror platform.
Capturing
attention from gamers around the world with sales over a bucketload,
Resident Evil franchise can be labeled as a legend among the survival
horror fans.
Interesting
gameplay, Resident Evil 6(RE 6) is the latest installment from the
great franchise. For the first time ever, RE 6 provides several new
gameplay and tricks apart from that interesting storyline the game
offers.
RE
6 is different from its predecessors; Starting from RE 5, the game
has gone too far from its roots, transforming to an action-horror
game instead of its famous survival horror gameplay and RE6 still
follows the pace. However, there are diverse campaigns to fit the
taste of old fans and newcomers.
The
game runs smoothly on XBOX 360 and Sony Playstation 3 (PS 3) and
currently in development for PC version. The Pc version is predicted
to be released in 2013 through Steam.
The
price of RE 6 for PS3 is quite average which is only RM159 while its
famous action-horror predecessor cost RM70-99. It's not that much as
we can see RE 6 has more campaigns, each divided into five 60 minutes
long chapters.
RE6
maybe the best installment so far with a bunch of new gameplay and
tactics and most importantly more ferocious villains and zombies!
Let's see what the gameplay provides.
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| Ada Wong as the main protagonist in the fourth a.k.a special campaign. |
Gameplay
The
gameplay is improving; instead of having only one campaign for a
great game, RE 6 provides three (3) diverse campaigns each with
unique storyline and characters. Each character is controlled by a
player and will be accompanied and supported by an ally character
which is controlled by other human or Active Intelligence (AI).
Hundreds
of collectibles to gather, bunch of cool upgrades for your equips and
shooting and kicking viscous zombies. Thousands of skill points to
harvest for a greater journey and cool gameplay.
The
storyline is packed carefully, each with own distinct interface, own
flavor and each digging into Resident Evil's past.
Your
health bar is divided into squares and you're knocked to the ground
each time a section is emptied, where you can slide around and
shooting upwards to your attacker. When you're low on health, you
either have to wait for your mate to revive you or retire beneath a
desk hoping there were no zombies looking for you for 30 seconds for
your health bar to repair.
The
camera hovers over your shoulder. Aim down enemies and tight zoom
affords accuracy at the cost of encircling vision. To those who
noticed the camera are twitchy and cocky, have worries no more as the
laser aim is introduced in RE6.
Resident
Evil's herb system in which plants can be collected and combined to
create restorative pills, has been streamlined and upkeep; you can
swallow pills with taps of a button during play. Looking back to
Resident Evil 5, RE 6's herb system is much more complex.
You
now can shoot while moving and duck, roll over while the enemies
aiming you. The new trick includes the ability to kick and smackdown
an enemy at the cost of stamina and each action will require a bar of
stamina. Be careful as the stamina slowly regenerates while you're
not attacking which is bad if you're surrounded by a horde of
zombies.
There
is a new type of zombie called J'avo. Unlike zombies, J'avo are able
to interact with each other to plan an attack, use weapons and
ability to heal themselves. Certain enemies drop skill points when
killed, which can be picked up to spend on upgrades to increase
weapon effectiveness and increase the amount of specific ammunition
drops.
There
are set piece events that require different approaches, such as
shooting at zombies, prying through a door and attempting to locate
keys in a vehicle. The game also offers Mercenaries mode which exist
in RE5, where players fight hordes of enemies, and the Agent Hunt
mode which allows players to take control of random enemies in other
player's games.
The
special campaign or the fourth scenario will only be unlocked when
the player completed all the initial three campaigns. The fourth
campaign features the main character from past Re’s, Ada Wong
(without a partner) and is one of the hardest campaign to complete in
Resident Evil 6.
Leon's
campaign is by far the most strongest one due to it's horror and
scary atmosphere. Old fans will probably love the campaign aside from
others. The zombies may not be mutated and got the evolve look but
the main idea is to keep the campaign stick to its roots; the horror
survival where the atmosphere is dark, the scarcity of ammo and the
zombies are scary, yes scary.
While
Chris's campaigns have gone beyond the game original idea, it fits
well for the newcomers who loves action packed gameplay. The zombies
are mutated and sometimes wear guns and rifles. The campaign itself lacks the cohorence vision for an original concept but it still viable for one who hungers for actions and guns.
Jounters that outstay their welcome and
kind of short-hop journeys to resemble the dramas.
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| Jake Muller and Sherry Birkin running away from Uthanak's grasp. |
Player
Opinions
Hazrul
Mdnor, 19, a hardcore gamer said “Resident Evil 6 has been the most
long waited survival horror game for all gamers and I think it is
perfectly done.
“I
love the gameplay where the characters have the ability to punch and
kick zombies instead of just shoot them like in other survival horror
games.
“I
admit the game itself has gone too far from its roots, however the
main idea of this game is to attract newcomers and new fans. Like
Jake Muller's campaign, I can see the environment is more like Call
of Duty than the original RE horror environment.” he ended.
Muhd
Haziq, 18, a loyal Resident Evil fan said “As an old fan of RE
games, I have to admit Resident Evil 6 is by far the most anticipated
and packed with great gameplay aside from becoming an action-horror
game.
“However,
the appearance of new type of zombies such as J'avo really surprised
me. I truly enjoy the moment against them. It is really fun to be
alert all the time when playing this game.
“What
I love the most is the collaboration of main protagonists with other
interesting characters. Besides that, all of the campaigns are unique
and connected to each other and I think it is a great addition to
this game.” he ended.
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| The main protagonists collaborate together in order to defeat mighty Ustanak. |
Conclusion
Resident
Evil 6 improved in so many aspects. Many gamers love the new gameplay
and the ability to play with friends to embark the dangerous journey
together.
The
main protagonist is one of the reason why this game gets a lot of
attention from the serious gamers out there. Their cool appearance,
great personality and astounding design is ridiculously amazing and
unpredictable.
While
it's gone too far from it's roots, the undoubted RE 6 is the best
survival-horror game ever exist. Despite of all that, it still offers
the best gameplay which gamers crave for.
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| RE 6 main protagonists: Leon Kennedy, Jake Muller, Chris Redfield, Sherry Birkin, Helena Harper and Piers Nivans |
Regards,
Hazril Mdnor
