If you go in as a longtime fan of the series expecting a tense horror-action game, I can completely understand why this game might suck hard for you. But if you go in expecting the dumbness and craziness of what is essentially a 2010s-era Fast and Furious movie with a bioterrorism subplot, and if you have a friend to play through with you, it’s a really good time.
Completely forget about the story and writing because it’s all pretty awful, but I think all the action setpieces that the game sends you through are anywhere from great to okay. Funny enough, I think newcomer Jake’s campaign was actually the best one due to its insistence on how fresh he was to the series and how simple the directive he and Sherry had: stay alive. The pacing is really great and it takes you through a lot of amazing locations and objectives. Leon’s campaign is pretty good, Ada’s is okay, and Chris’s is just straight up bad for the most part.
I also disagree with some of the reviews calling the four campaigns superfluous because they’re all just the same. Each of them have some intersections, some handled well and some that literally have you doing the exact same thing again, but they all feel pretty separate and defined by their own stories, and I could imagine it could’ve been pretty engaging if the story was anything worth remembering. Then again, GTA IV and its DLCs did the same thing 5 years prior, so…
Either way, please play this with a friend, as I've heard the friendly AI is just garbage.
Completely forget about the story and writing because it’s all pretty awful, but I think all the action setpieces that the game sends you through are anywhere from great to okay. Funny enough, I think newcomer Jake’s campaign was actually the best one due to its insistence on how fresh he was to the series and how simple the directive he and Sherry had: stay alive. The pacing is really great and it takes you through a lot of amazing locations and objectives. Leon’s campaign is pretty good, Ada’s is okay, and Chris’s is just straight up bad for the most part.
I also disagree with some of the reviews calling the four campaigns superfluous because they’re all just the same. Each of them have some intersections, some handled well and some that literally have you doing the exact same thing again, but they all feel pretty separate and defined by their own stories, and I could imagine it could’ve been pretty engaging if the story was anything worth remembering. Then again, GTA IV and its DLCs did the same thing 5 years prior, so…
Either way, please play this with a friend, as I've heard the friendly AI is just garbage.