Manages to lose almost all of the magic of the RESIDENT EVIL 2 remake, while also having only about a third of the content. What is here certainly looks good and works, but weirdly not quite as well as before. Even things like the zombie AI, dismemberment, and general controls -- all stuff that you would think would be ripped straight out of the last one -- feel inferior somehow. And of course the characters and locations are much less interesting, with a quick return to the RE2 police station feeling more insulting than anything. Oh, and as for the Nemesis ... after how well they did Mr. X, why in the world did they make him so lame? Totally scripted encounters only, no chasing you persistently around big environments. What a letdown.

Judged in isolation, this is a quick, passable horror game with a nice sheen, but it's impossible to assess it like that when its predecessor was such a standout. Total missed opportunity. I would have been furious if I had paid $60 for this.