I’m all aboard the remake bus (please, can we have Code: Veronica now?). It’s been a great era to be a fan of the franchise. Compared to the sleek Alien Isolation, released in October 2014, Resident Evil was starting to feel as fresh as a Barry Burton’s socks.Īnd yet it occurred to me last week, playing through Resident Evil 3: Nemesis – a game that is much better than the middling experience I’ve read about in reviews – that I haven’t felt anything other than excitement about being a Resident Evil fan for some time now. Was the game that coined the descriptor of ‘survival horror’ even worthy of the title anymore? There was an awful lot of running and shooting in RE 6. The unkindness the cosmos have shown to those who enjoy Capcom’s hit survival-horror series in the late ’00s has not only resulted in the franchise’s longest-ever wait for new content (a grand quota of nowt with a RE logo slapped upon it was produced between Resident Evil 6 on Octoand Resident Evil: Revelations 2 on February 24, 2015), but, perhaps most troubling, the lurking suspicion that the series had lost its very soul.
It was hard work being a Resident Evil fan for a while there.
