Retro Review – Resident Evil: Survivor

<p>I love <em>Resident Evil<&sol;em>&comma; if <em>Resident Evil<&sol;em> was a dude I would have a mad &&num;8220&semi;man crush&&num;8221&semi; on him&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve beaten all the numbered titles in the franchise and a majority of the spin-offs&comma; except for the PlayStation light-gun games that came out in the early 2000&&num;8217&semi;s&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know if I didn&&num;8217&semi;t hear about<em> Resident Evil&colon; Survivor<&sol;em> or I was tired of zombies after I had beaten <em>Resident Evil 3&colon; Nemesis<&sol;em>&comma; but I didn&&num;8217&semi;t get around to buying the title until late last year&period; It was sadly a somewhat pricey title&comma; but seeing as I almost have every <em>Resident Evil<&sol;em> title&comma; I had to buy it&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m very happy that I did&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Story<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>This story takes place after the outbreak in Raccoon City&comma; you play as an amnesiac who finds himself in the world of survival horror&period; It is a very short off-shoot from the numbered titles at the time&comma; but it is still very enjoyable&period; You get to almost choose your story&comma; there are three paths you can take once you begin the game&period; Those paths can change some of the outcomes of your campaign as you get farther and farther in the game&period; I began in the Church and met a different enemy than some&comma; so it is in your best interest to replay the title at least three times&comma; it will only take you about two hours to beat the game&comma; but you cannot save your progress&period; The whole not saving thing was pretty disheartening&comma; but you do get a nice amount of continues if you die&comma; and you can save if you die&comma; but you don&&num;8217&semi;t save progress&comma; just items you&&num;8217&semi;ve received&period; There aren&&num;8217&semi;t a huge amount of cutscenes that steer you through the story&comma; Capcom decided to tell this tale through the notes and memos you find in your journey&period; It is a different take on the formula&comma; but if you don&&num;8217&semi;t read the memos and such you may find yourself at a loss when the whole thing gets fleshed out at the end&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;136061" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-136061" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-136061" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;25222703&sol;gfs&lowbar;50444&lowbar;2&lowbar;46&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-136061" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Resident Evil&colon; Survivor<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Capcom&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h2>Controls<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>The game controls like a first-person shooter&comma; which does take some getting used to if you are a hardcore<em> Resident Evil<&sol;em> fan&period; R1 is gun sight&comma; left thumbstick is aiming&comma; and finally&comma; X is fire&period; This is the most important thing you should know since you&&num;8217&semi;ll be running in and out of rooms with zombies that respawn every time you leave and re-enter&period; Should you have to run from a hoard of zombies because you are terrible shot you can hold down Square and move&comma; this will cause you to run away like the coward that you are&period; The controls are simple and shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t get you killed&period; What is also nice is that if you discover an item you need for a puzzle&comma; that item will automatically use itself in the puzzle without you having to tinker with it&period; Remember in the original <em>Resident Evil<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s where you would have to figure out what went where this game does it for you automatically&period; Which also helps it be a very quick play through&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Audiovisuals<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>The game looks and sounds like the traditional <em>Resident Evil<&sol;em> game&comma; however&comma; it does look a bit better than the classic&period; A few years had passed and Capcom got their stuff together in the graphics department&period; The zombies still have that familiar shuffling look&comma; the lickers are scary in first person mode and the Hunters are just as deadly as in previous games&period; It was really fun seeing and killing all these creatures in first person mode&comma; makes me realize why Capcom made <em>Resident Evil 7<&sol;em> a first-person game instead of a third person game&period; The sounds bring back the most memories for me&comma; the creepy man saying<em> Resident Evil<&sol;em> at the beginning of the game&comma; all the way to the menu sounds and the familiar groans of our undead friends&period; Capcom put all the bells and whistles into this game&comma; except when it came to story and length&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know why they copped out on those two&comma; but I wish they would have made it a far longer campaign with a more fleshed out story&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;136381" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-136381" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-136381" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;03233022&sol;thAP0ZLE23&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"359" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-136381" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Resident Evil&colon; Survivor<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Capcom&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h2>Conclusion<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>I really enjoyed this game but was sadly left with wanting more&period; <em>House of the Dead<&sol;em> is a great fallback&comma; but it isn&&num;8217&semi;t in the same vein as a <em>Resident Evil<&sol;em> first-person shooter&period; Had this game been longer it would have been on the top of my favorites list&comma; sadly a two-hour play through and no REAL way to save your progress drop it down on the list immensely&period; Capcom has also&comma; unfortunately&comma;  forgotten about this player protagonist&period; Maybe they&&num;8217&semi;ll bring him back in some vein in <em>Resident Evil 8<&sol;em> since they seem to be rebooting the series currently&period; Who knows maybe he will be in the <em>Resident Evil 2<&sol;em> remake since apparently&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s buddies with a certain protagonist&period; Either way&comma; Capcom needs to open their vaults and take a nice hard look at what they&&num;8217&semi;ve done before that was successful and bring it back for us older gamers that would love a chance to play a nice updated version of this game&period; If you are a hardcore<em> Resident Evil<&sol;em> fan I would suggest buying this just for bragging rights&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re a fan of the survival horror genre it really isn&&num;8217&semi;t part of that genre&comma; so I would give it a pass&period; The game is difficult to find and you may be better off finding <em>Dead Aim<&sol;em> instead&comma; that has more of a survival horror feel to it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;