Official PlayStation Magazine - 04.2020

041

PREVIEW

Would we like to switch to Aim

Assisted mode? This embarrassing

and frankly condescending

question keeps cropping up as

OPM repeatedly dies at the hands

of its Nemesis. No, we would not,

we do have some pride. Besides, it’s not our aim

that’s the problem. It’s Nemesis. He’s big, he’s a

bully, and it’s just not fair.

Twenty years ago, playing the original fixed-camera

survival horror on our PS1, we had the same

problem. We can distinctly remember screaming,

“Oh, leave me alone!” at our fat cathode-ray-tube

TV as the Pursuer cropped up yet again to ruin a

perfectly nice bit of rummaging down the side of

dumpsters for green herbs.

Nemesis is designed to chase Jill relentlessly.

It’s Resident Evil 3’s standout feature. But as if the

original game’s Big Bad wasn’t big and bad enough,

the one in this reboot makes his ancestor seem

kitten-like – and you can blame the Resident Evil

2 reboot for that, since that game’s Tyrant set a

new benchmark. Nemesis is way smarter than the

Tyrant, moves nimbly for his size, has prehensile

tendrils that ensnare you and, at one point, has a

flamethrower. Yeah, this isn’t going to be easy.

JUST STOP IT

Zombie-infested Raccoon City has been reimagined

and created in exacting detail on PS4, but remains

recognisable to fans of the original, despite the more

open feel and evidently bigger scale of the city. It’s

far from open world; areas are locked off or blocked

RESIDENT EVIL 3

Jill-in’ like a villain

FORMAT PS4 / ETA 3 APR

PUB CAPCOM / DEV CAPCOM

“NEMESIS IS

DESIGNED TO

CHASE JILL

RELENTLESSLY.”