Your armaments range from pretty much useless to strikingly overpowered with little middle ground.Īllowing players to take would-be zombies out of commission with a few preemptive headshots was a small but impactful addition in RE2 Remake. Two or three handgun bullets easily taking down most average foes in the first half of the game, but swap to an assault rifle, and you’ll need to unload a good 15 rounds to get the undead to take a knee. RE3 Remake tweaks the zombies and gunplay mechanics, but many of those changes make it worse.
In the previous game, zombies required a ridiculous number of direct headshots to fall down. I can drive a car off a rooftop and live, but I can’t hop on top of a crate to scuttle up a fire escape? Things get more fun once you start spelunking around confined areas like sewers and labs, but the puzzles and environments never hit the same highs as RE2 Remake. The open environments of its early hours are probably RE3 Remake’s weakest, owing to a whole lot of ludonarrative dissonance on the maps.
X tramping around upstairs or down the hall and know it was time to find another route to your destination.) (RE2 Remake's atmosphere was enhanced by its impeccable sound design. RE3 Remake has more varied environments to explore, but it never quite recaptures the claustrophobic foreboding of its predecessor.
Thankfully, after the preliminaries are over, the action is very resolutely back in fictional territory, and the game’s story and environments don’t feel too close to reality.Ĭompletely revamped from the original 1999 PlayStation game’s choice-driven narrative, you’ll control Jill for much of the game, with some brief interludes as Carlos.
Thematically, Resident Evil 3 is a tough sell in light of the ongoing public health crisis, and a lengthy introductory montage about much of the United States being in lockdown due to a pandemic didn’t help. The government plans to lay waste to the city with a missile barrage to contain the disease, which leaves Jill and Carlos on a desperate hunt for the vaccine while outlasting the unrelenting pursuit of Nemesis, the mutated brick shithouse who wants nothing more than to see Jill’s blood spatter. Along the way, she gets chummy with Carlos, who’s working security for the villainous Umbrella, the organization responsible for unleashing the mutation-causing T-virus that's turning everyone into shambling corpse monsters. special-ops cop Jill Valentine’s escape from Raccoon City. RE3 Remake takes place over the same few days as RE2, focusing instead on S.T.A.R.S.
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