The Made2Game Instant Review: Resident Evil 6

A new 'core' Resident Evil game, then. Exciting! Well, exciting-ish. Not as exciting as the Chippenham Cricket Club committee meeting we were at last night when the game was announced.

Anyway. The epic Resident Evil 6 trailer below (epic for an announcement trailer, anyway) gives off a distinctly ‘Operation Raccoon City meets Gears Of War whiff’, with lots and lots (and lots) of action rather than old school suspense and tension and claustrophobia, which is a little disheartening to say the least. However, if the multiple story threads (Resident Evil Hero Squad as a subtitle, anyone?) can be paced properly, it might just be okay!

 

But will this affect its Metacritic score? Guessing the metacritic score of course being the whole point of semi-regular Made2Game Instant Review regular feature. Somehow we doubt it. Despite many a negative take on Resident Evil 5, the game still steamrollered in with a mid-80s metacritic score and we’re gambling the mortgage on it being a similar story with Resident Evil 6.

Sample verdict quote #1:
“We’ve been desperate for Resi to go all Gears Of War rather than carrying on with all that boring saving ammo and being frightened malarky and thankfully number 6 does exactly this. AWESOMES!”
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Sample verdict quote #2:
“The sections with Jill Valentine should have been longer.”
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Predicted Metacritic score: 86%

The Resident Evil 6 release date is 20 November 2012.

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