Finally one of these Resident Evil lightgun games is an on-rails arcade shooter. I really wish I could have played this as intended on the Wii, but I think I made do with an emulator + mouse & keyboard. What you get here is a retelling of RE Zero, RE1, and RE3, each with additional scenarios showing untold stories of those games. Wesker escaping the mansion before it explodes, Ada escaping Raccoon City before it explodes, Rebecca's actions bridging Zero and RE1. It's some nice bonus stories because the retellings are pretty paired down.
The most egregious is RE3's levels which don't actually recreate any environments from 3 and instead reuse areas wholly from the Outbreak games, and not even the levels in Outbreak that are sourced from RE3. It's a version of RE3 where the game ends at the Police Department and Nemesis only shows up at the very end and sounds like a robot. Booooo.
There's a secret bonus campaign showing Umbrella's final days as Chris and Jill assault their final fortress in Russia. It's at this point that the game throws every non-zombie enemy in fat waves at you. I am no longer scared of hunter or lickers because this game had me slay 20 each just to walk down a hallway. They even reuse the bat boss from RE0.
There's a new Umbrella executive, Colonel Vladimir, who likes to lick knives. He's allegedly Wesker's nemesis in the company and works alongside the Red Queen AI, which I've been told is a character from the movies?
It was at this point that I was glad this was the end of Umbrella because they're no longer compelling villains. They were so much more threatening when they were a cold corporation looking to make a buck with dark experiments, but so much backstory has been laid upon them, with so many insane researchers and soldiers, that they're now a weird hybrid of eugenicists, PMC, intelligence agency, cult, and leech wizards.
As a lightgun game Umbrella Chronicles is fun. Your pistol has unlimited ammo, but you can scour the surroundings for additional weapons and heals, usually by destroying furniture. All the environments are destructible and it's oddly satisfying to blow up these familiar locations. Weapons are upgradable with the points you earn from ranks and eventually you can get every weapons with unlimited ammo.
Boss fights are annoying because they're based around targeting weakpoints and the camera just won't stay still on them for you to do any meaningful damage. The Plant 42 fight is especially awful.
If there's a standout mission it's the Umbrella Chronicles take on the 4th Survivor mission from RE2. Here Hunk's bloody escape from the RPD is overlayed with radio broadcasts from the desperate and dying citizens of Raccoon City.
If I wasn't so nostalgic for lightgun shooters I'd probably be harsher on it.
The most egregious is RE3's levels which don't actually recreate any environments from 3 and instead reuse areas wholly from the Outbreak games, and not even the levels in Outbreak that are sourced from RE3. It's a version of RE3 where the game ends at the Police Department and Nemesis only shows up at the very end and sounds like a robot. Booooo.
There's a secret bonus campaign showing Umbrella's final days as Chris and Jill assault their final fortress in Russia. It's at this point that the game throws every non-zombie enemy in fat waves at you. I am no longer scared of hunter or lickers because this game had me slay 20 each just to walk down a hallway. They even reuse the bat boss from RE0.
There's a new Umbrella executive, Colonel Vladimir, who likes to lick knives. He's allegedly Wesker's nemesis in the company and works alongside the Red Queen AI, which I've been told is a character from the movies?
It was at this point that I was glad this was the end of Umbrella because they're no longer compelling villains. They were so much more threatening when they were a cold corporation looking to make a buck with dark experiments, but so much backstory has been laid upon them, with so many insane researchers and soldiers, that they're now a weird hybrid of eugenicists, PMC, intelligence agency, cult, and leech wizards.
As a lightgun game Umbrella Chronicles is fun. Your pistol has unlimited ammo, but you can scour the surroundings for additional weapons and heals, usually by destroying furniture. All the environments are destructible and it's oddly satisfying to blow up these familiar locations. Weapons are upgradable with the points you earn from ranks and eventually you can get every weapons with unlimited ammo.
Boss fights are annoying because they're based around targeting weakpoints and the camera just won't stay still on them for you to do any meaningful damage. The Plant 42 fight is especially awful.
If there's a standout mission it's the Umbrella Chronicles take on the 4th Survivor mission from RE2. Here Hunk's bloody escape from the RPD is overlayed with radio broadcasts from the desperate and dying citizens of Raccoon City.
If I wasn't so nostalgic for lightgun shooters I'd probably be harsher on it.