And if that wasn't enough, there's also a hulking monstrosity known as the Nemesis hunting her every step of the way. In Resident Evil 3 remake, there's an army of zombies and deadly bio-weapons threatening protagonist Jill Valentine's desperate efforts to escape Raccoon City. She is a native of New Jersey, a lifelong gamer, and a former gaming YouTuber. Kaity Kline is a columnist for NPR's Join the Game and a producer on 1A. And despite its shortcomings, it's still a good game it brings realism and life to a story previously told with limited, 20-year-old technology.īut for what you get, I'd wait until it's on sale - unless you really love Resident Evil. There is a reason to keep playing for fans that want a challenge - if you defeat hardcore mode, then you unlock two even tougher difficulties.
But you see everything the remake has to offer after one playthrough, and that lack of replayability makes it hard to justify the $60 purchase price. That meant that even though the game was only six hours long, you could replay it until you'd experienced all the story paths and endings. Like other games in the series, the first RE3 presented players with choices that altered the story and the ending. You never lose too much progress when you die, which makes surviving every encounter a little less critical.Īnd one big feature missing from the remake is branching story paths. In easy mode, you got unlimited saves.īut now, you have unlimited saves on all difficulty levels (though your number of saves does impact your final grade at the end of the game). Players had a limited amount of ink ribbons they could use to save their progress whenever they found a typewriter, and the threat of getting killed and losing a lot of progress really upped the stakes. The original game also ratcheted up the tension through its save system. The remake hides its enemies in the darkness, or behind objects in the room, but its zombies are nowhere near as terrifying as when they were waiting to jump you off-screen.Īll Tech Considered The Evil Within 2 Puts Gamers Right In The Middle Of A Scary Story Other than audio cues, you never knew if a zombie was hiding around a corner, ready to lunge at you and chase you back down the hall. For the next game in the series, Capcom permanently switched to a more popular over-the-shoulder perspective, where the camera remains fixed on the character.īut those fixed camera angles made the original RE3 pee-your-pants scary. That meant you were navigating Jill from a third-person perspective through an environment you could only see from one angle - which made sense with the technical limitations of the first PlayStation but became outdated as technology became more advanced. Like previous games in the series, the original RE3 used fixed camera angles.
And a lot of the changes make things less scary. But there are tons of changes from the original - characters, monsters, puzzles, locations, and plot points have all been altered, or in some cases removed. It hooks you into the story quicker than the original and is very welcoming to new players. The new Resident Evil 3 is an entertaining horror experience.
The new 'Resident Evil 3' is an entertaining horror experience. Jill and her surviving teammates at S.T.A.R.S are a smidge of an inconvenience, so Umbrella has created our stalker Nemesis to kill off all the remaining S.T.A.R.S and cover up their tracks. And they really want to destroy all evidence of their involvement in the T-virus outbreak. But to sum it up without spoilers: Umbrella is super evil. This is a long, complicated story that spans multiple games. was investigating the source of the T-virus, and traced it back to a politically powerful company called Umbrella Pharmaceuticals. Jill is a member of the Special Tactics and Rescue Service team (S.T.A.R.S), an elite law enforcement team at the Raccoon Police Department. You're playing most of the game as "Supercop" Jill Valentine, as she desperately tries to survive and escape the infested city - while our friend Nemesis stalks close behind. The bare bones of the game remain the same: Raccoon City is overwhelmed by an outbreak of a disease called the T-virus, which turns everyone it infects into a zombie.
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