Resident Evil

Resident Evil: Death Island Review

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It’s time for another CG Resident Evil movie set within the canon game timeline that will inevitably not actually be mentioned in the games! Hooray! Seriously though, as a die hard Resi fan since day one I do love these as a guilty pleasure and boy oh boy does Death Island play to my fanboy heart: Chris, Jill, Leon, Claire and Rebecca all in one story? Actually following up on character development from Resi 5 and 6? A villain with an actual interesting backstory?! (before becoming a generic villain in the end) Yes for this fan this was a great 90 minutes, if you’re not a fan then… well, let’s take a look…

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Resident Evil: City of the Dead & Underworld Review

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As I mentioned in my previous post reviewing Welcome to Raccoon City I’d ran out of games to review alongside it, so I thought I’d instead pick up the next two RE novels which includes an adaptation of RE2, so it sort of works? Well, not really, but hey, why not? Underworld is another novel-original story so it’s another box ticked in my accidental bid to review every RE story at some point, so let’s take a look!

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Review

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I had somewhat high hopes for Welcome to Raccoon City when it was first announced, writer/director Johannes Roberts made it clear how big of a fan he was of the franchise, but the announcement that it was merging the first two games into one story put up some red flags, and sadly after watching it you can throw in two all-time great Resi characters being heavily rewritten for the worse as another strike against it. It’s far from all bad, especially for the budget, but the fan-side of me was disappointed after the hype of the film “being closer to the games”. Oh well, let’s take a look at the film as a whole.

This is a “bonus” review by the way because I’ve already covered Resident Evil 1 (HERE), it’s Remake (HERE), as well as Resident Evil 2 (HERE) and its Remake (HERE), so there wasn’t a game to review next to it, though I will throw in an extra related review after this goes up for the hell of it.

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Resident Evil 4 Remake (PS5) Review

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In my original look at Resident Evil 4 (viewable HERE!) I said that while it was undeniably a great game me at the time didn’t like the weird un-Resi story and all the QTE cutscenes, but either way it was still fun to play. So when RE4 Remake was confirmed I was confused and a little annoyed as Code: Veronica is actually in need of an update unlike 4, but I will say that this Remake is right up there with the RE2 remake as like that it keeps most things the same but updates it (like removing the outdated QTEs!) and looks gorgeous to boot. So let’s take a deeper look!

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Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Review

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Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness is a new four-part CG series set in the video game canon, much like the three CG movies released over the last decade and a bit. In fact given the four episodes run about an hour and a half total and were all released at the same time means this is in reality just a fourth CG movie… Is it good though? Well, within the confines of being a Resident Evil property? Let’s find out!

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Resident Evil VILLage (PS4) Review

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Now this blog is fully caught up with official Resident Evil releases! Village (or VILLage, written so you can see the numeral for “8” in it…) is the latest in the long running franchise and does a Resident Evil 4-level “to hell with realism in our bioweapons” and just runs with the fantasy element and hand-waves it at the end with some technobabble. Most importantly, is it actually fun to play? That being the key thing and all… let’s find out!

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Resident Evil VII: Biohazard (PS4) Review

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We end this final Resident Evil Week with the last mainline entry not to covered here on this blog: RE VII (though this goes up on the day Resident Evil VIII is released, which I won’t be able to review for a few weeks due to actually having to play it, so… bugger) Biohazard was somehow simultaneously a return to the classic games while also having a completely different viewpoint: first person. How can that be?! Let’s have a look…

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Resident Evil Revelations 2 (PS4) Review

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Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is a bit of a different beast than its predecessor. It was made from the ground up for consoles this time but still lacks that top-tier polish due to originally being a download only episodic budget release. It does however live up to the “Revelations” tagline this time as it picks up on a plot thread from RE5 that would’ve otherwise gone unresolved… Let’s take a closer look!

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Resident Evil Revelations (XBOX 360) Review

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The two Revelations games are a bit of an oddity. This started off as a 3DS exclusive, then was ported to the consoles where a second one was released, but some of the handheld ideas were still carried across both entries. Given I never owned a 3DS it was this 360 port that allowed me to finally play through the game. It’s set between RE 4 and 5 but far from just being a small “gap filler”. What was it like, and what’s it like now? Let’s find out!

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Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (Wii) Review

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While Umbrella Chronicles covered RE 0, 1 and 3 as well as giving us a pivotal moment in the RE timeline it’s sequel, Darkside Chronicles, covers RE 2 and Code: Veronica while showing as a bit of background between Leon and Krauser set before RE 4. So… not as interesting. Still, is it still fun to play though? That’s the main question! Let’s find out…

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