Unbiased Resident evil 6 review

The problem with Resident Evil 6 isn’t that it’s a bad game. That’s hardly the case. The problem with Resident Evil 6 is that it simply tries to bite off more evolution than it can comfortably chew. It makes sense for a franchise as long established as Resident Evil (if you played the first game when it first came out, then you’re probably wondering where all the time went) to want to grow, please the old players, and keep the new ones coming in.

And Resident Evil 6 succeeds at doing this in a lot of ways. It just simply takes on more than any game could reasonably handle. The end result of the game is something that’s pretty good in certain places, weak in others, and infuriatingly uneven for those who run through the game from start to finish.

Inside Resident Evil 6

Identity crisis is a concept that a number of people have attached to the game. RE6 is far from the disaster some claim it to be, but it is indeed suffering from a pretty substantial identity crisis. It tries to give us everything. It fails in this, but it does offer some good moments along the way.

Resident Evil 6 breaks down into four campaigns and seven characters. The trick to getting the big picture is to play all four campaigns. It was a smart move on the part of the developers to split the complete narrative into four paths that connect to one another in a different ways. It is also one of the biggest reasons why the game suffers from the aforementioned identity crisis.

One of the biggest problems with the game’s massive storyline is the fact that you’re often going to be forced to endure aspects of the game that you probably won’t want to go through again. People who want to get the complete story, and it’s not a bad story by any means, are going to have to play through some of the most irritating parts of the game more than once. It lends an element of chore to the title that really doesn’t need to be there.

Another problem with the game is its desperation to evolve. There are some beautiful moments of old-school survival horror in Resident Evil 6. There is also a clear effort on Capcom’s part to create an action game epic that just happens to have monsters in it. What we get is gameplay and action sequences that feel annoyingly similar to games that do a much better job of handling this sort of thing. Resident Evil 6 endeavors to be the greatest action spectacular in history. And in trying to do it often forgets what made Resident Evil such a blast to play in the first place.

Is Resident Evil 6 fun? Absolutely. It’s just not as much fun as it should be.

Conclusion

Resident Evil 6 deserves a place in the franchise. It’s just a great shame to witness so much wasted potential.