Resident Evil 6 review
“I can’t believe this is happening again. It’s just like Raccoon.”Leon S. Kennedy’s reference to the first town overrun by zombies in Capcom’s long-running survival horror series is pregnant with meaning. At face value, it’s the eye-rolling incredulity of a zombie-thwacking protagonist thrown into the familiar peril of a sequel: ‘This again? Really?’ But as Kennedy and his new partner-in-uniform Helena Harper creep their way through an abandoned American university, its creaking halls resounding with the thunderclaps and rude flashes of a nighttime electrical storm, at times it does feel just like Raccoon.Rabid dogs smash through glass panes while bug-eyed cadavers turn their heads to glare back at you over rotten shoulders, just as if you’ve wandered back into Spencer Mansion’s woodworm-infested corridors. The fixed camera angles and boat-like character steering of the series’ formative days have been consigned to history. Nevertheless, the scenery in these early stages Resident Evil 6 – from the set-dressing to the instant deaths to the quick-time events – is pure Shinji Mikami, pure PlayStation, even if the gifted designer and his ponderous door-opening animations are both long gone.Read more…
