Custom PC - UK (2020-08)

/VERDICT

Overly short and

largely stripped

of interesting

features, Resident

Evil 3 is more a

regurgitation than

a remake.

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but he’s also deceptively fast, and you’ll likely come a cropper
against him more thanonce.Whenyoudashintoa building,
only for him to followyo
of his relentlessness.Sa
promising action-horror
rush to the exit. Not only
Nemesis far less interes
game between them.
In the process of deve
substantial amountofco
3 has been choppedout.
chapter that takes placei
as well as key scenes,su
police station.
Resident Evil 3 alsola
puzzling elements ofits
Admittedly, this is mored
without a consistent loca
Resident Evil 2’s success
place largely in a single,
Even so, Resident Evil3’s
stretch beyond findingth
key item at the end ofa
locations themselvesar e
After that initial race throu
a bland sewer, a boringh
secret laboratory.
All of which wouldbel
problem if the action was
it’s middle-notch at best.
damage model is far less
the one in Resident Evil2,
can’t shoot off arms orle
down enemies or disable
the main new weapon– t
Rifle, is one of the weake
in the game. Its fast firera
damage makes it entirely
fighting zombies.

In under five hours, it’s all over. Such brevity isn’t necessarily

bad,andthe 1999 originalwasn’texactlyAssassin’sCreed

ntEvil 3 has

atestorylines,

witching that

edgame. It’s

corridor run,

’redone, which

nough for a

potential

sident

form of its

r mode, which

symmetrical

ere four

ume the roles

andmust

controlled

hefifth player

rector,

through

allyspawning

ard. It’s a

dynamic

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it difficult to

ppointing

Given

unched

tohave

oor.With

used more

e original

potentially

Instead, it’s

ways.