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Resident Evil: The Horror is Back
Trying out Resident Evil in 3D through this original 3DS installment.
January 8, 2011
The horror is back in Resident Evil! That's our impression after a going few sessions with 3DS's Resident Evil Revelations at the Nintendo World demo event in Chiba earlier today.
The Nintendo World demo, the first time Revelations has gone playable, gave players control of Jill Valentine on the ship that serves as the game's central setting. In our two play sessions, we lead Jill through the corridors of the devastated ship and took out a few attacking zombies along the way.
Controls in Revelations will be familiar to modern Resident Evil fans. The game takes place mostly from the character's back. You move with the analogue pad, run with B, ready your weapon with R and fire with Y. You can play around with the camera angle by moving your hand over an on-screen pad, although the only use we could come up with for this when playing the demo was to position the camera for a better look at Jill (not a bad use -- she looks pretty nice with her new Revelations design).
The game allows you to move while firing now. You do this by holding down L, which makes your character move in a strafing fashion. You can move in this fashion even when your gun is drawn and firing.
The ability to move while firing does not mean that Revelations is a run-and-gun game, though. If our demo session is anything to go by, it's the exact opposite. At most, we encountered one or two zombies at a time (although two proved to be enough, as we died in the same spot twice!)
Like the REs of old, the game seems to have a purposefully slow pace, with the thrills coming not from blasting away at zombie hoards but at the suspense of not knowing when something will pop out of door or hidden passage. This happened a few times in the demo. A zombie popped out of a toilet stall and came at Jill. Rats suddenly popped out of vents.
At one point in the demo, we could hear someone grunting and as if he was coming under attack. As we approached a room surrounded by glass walls, we saw that the man was being held at the neck by a zombie. The zombie tossed the man at the room's windows, splattering blood all over the place. When we worked our way to the room, we found that two zombies were eating their recent kill (this is where we died in both our play sessions, by the way).
With atmospheric sounds, and lots of shock scenes, it looks like Resident Evil Revelations could deliver true scares! Those scares will come at the visual quality we've come to expect from the series' latest HD installments. Revelations is a showpiece title for the 3DS in terms of visual fidelity. It also has a nice, clear 3D effect, making it look like you're looking into a virtual 3D world. The MT Framework (which powers both this and Street Fighter IV 3D Edition) appears to have another success story on its hands.
While the Nintendo World demo makes Revelations looks like it's pretty far along, a recent Japanese magazine article listed the game as just 20% complete. Based off our play test though, this one is going to be worth any amount of waiting.
The Nintendo World demo, the first time Revelations has gone playable, gave players control of Jill Valentine on the ship that serves as the game's central setting. In our two play sessions, we lead Jill through the corridors of the devastated ship and took out a few attacking zombies along the way.
Controls in Revelations will be familiar to modern Resident Evil fans. The game takes place mostly from the character's back. You move with the analogue pad, run with B, ready your weapon with R and fire with Y. You can play around with the camera angle by moving your hand over an on-screen pad, although the only use we could come up with for this when playing the demo was to position the camera for a better look at Jill (not a bad use -- she looks pretty nice with her new Revelations design).
The game allows you to move while firing now. You do this by holding down L, which makes your character move in a strafing fashion. You can move in this fashion even when your gun is drawn and firing.
The ability to move while firing does not mean that Revelations is a run-and-gun game, though. If our demo session is anything to go by, it's the exact opposite. At most, we encountered one or two zombies at a time (although two proved to be enough, as we died in the same spot twice!)
Like the REs of old, the game seems to have a purposefully slow pace, with the thrills coming not from blasting away at zombie hoards but at the suspense of not knowing when something will pop out of door or hidden passage. This happened a few times in the demo. A zombie popped out of a toilet stall and came at Jill. Rats suddenly popped out of vents.
At one point in the demo, we could hear someone grunting and as if he was coming under attack. As we approached a room surrounded by glass walls, we saw that the man was being held at the neck by a zombie. The zombie tossed the man at the room's windows, splattering blood all over the place. When we worked our way to the room, we found that two zombies were eating their recent kill (this is where we died in both our play sessions, by the way).
With atmospheric sounds, and lots of shock scenes, it looks like Resident Evil Revelations could deliver true scares! Those scares will come at the visual quality we've come to expect from the series' latest HD installments. Revelations is a showpiece title for the 3DS in terms of visual fidelity. It also has a nice, clear 3D effect, making it look like you're looking into a virtual 3D world. The MT Framework (which powers both this and Street Fighter IV 3D Edition) appears to have another success story on its hands.
While the Nintendo World demo makes Revelations looks like it's pretty far along, a recent Japanese magazine article listed the game as just 20% complete. Based off our play test though, this one is going to be worth any amount of waiting.
And this is the 100th post of Video Gamer's Tribune... well kinda because I'm still working on Two Gamers but who cares! Till Next Time!!
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