INTRO:When it comes to gaming I feel I know a lot. This may be a bold statement but I count it as one of my hobbies. I want to know whats going on in the gaming world, to try most games new or old, and to have a hell-of-a-lot of fun while sitting in-front of a monitor.
Resident Evil : The Umbrella Chronicles (Wii)
The premise of the game is a good, take the story from old Resident Evil games that we like and let us play through them again, take what we like about the Wii (that it can be a gun), and add in old school on the rails shooter action, Hoorah. For some reason tho the game seems to fall a bit short. Don’t get me wrong sitting with your buddy and shooting zombies like you used to do in the arcade playing House of the Dead is still just as fun in this game, but when you try and play it single player it fails. One of the main things you find while playing single player is that there is just too many damn things to shoot. See all the hidden items, gun, health, secrets are stuffed inside breakable objects inside the environment. When you have two players to blast holes in everything while still brain popping the undead your only worry is making sure your buddy doesn’t hog all the good stuff. When you are on your own you barely have time to reload your gun let alone shoot some stupid picture off a random wall to find the health spray that you will most likely need to beat the boss.
A big let down is also the aiming when compared to where you are actually pointing the wiimote. It just does not freaking line up!! So what would be the point of buying a fancy looking Wii zapper when you are not actually shooting where you are aiming. Ahhh get it right because that is one thing that can really ruin a game.
And ICS (interactive cut scenes)…..WHY. They are a game gimmick that should have died when it was invented.
Even after all that complaining the game isn’t actually that bad. Playing back through the old RE’s is a choir if you actually popped in your PS1 disk, but fighting undead dogs in the mansion in this different fashion is enjoyable. And for a Wii game the graphics are pretty good, I guess.
Resident Evil : Umbrella Chronicles I give you a
6.5/10
