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Back from the DEAD

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First off, this is a fantastic game. Far better than the waste of time Nemisis game. The graphics are better, the voice acting is the best of the seris, and its something different. To that guy who compared the graphics to quak, well have you played the ps version? Its horrid. House of the dead 2 is an arcade game that was porrly ported over to the dreamcast, wich is the only reason it looks better. I think you people are just affraid to do something different. After re 2, it just got borring. To you people who complain about it beimg to short, well hey its a gun game. They werent ment to be rpg masterpeices. Besides who has the time, or the lack of a life to site down and play a game 4 or 5 hours a day? Not me. I beat this game in about an hour. 54 minutes to be axact. Big deal. I can beat re2 in about an hour fifteen minutes tops. This game is great, especialy if you love resident evil. I recomend that everyone rent this game before buying it though. Because not everyone has the same felings about games. So basicaly im glad that the seris has finaly done something new for a change. its realy needed it .

A game the resident evil series would be better without.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love the resident evil series. The games have great graphics,controls and storylines BUT resident evil survivor is horrible! The graphics are bad ,the controls can be confussing and the storyline is not thought out well at all. I'm happy Capcom tried something new with Resident Evil survior but this game just doesn't match up to the original games. Buy any other resident evil game but just don't buy this one!

RENT THIS GAME, but don't buy it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I saw this on the shelf and thought, "a RE game, firstperson...for [not much]?". I clammored to the checkout counter and raced home to pop it in. Now you have to realize, I haven't bought a game since RE 2 came out, so I was pretty excited. The first thing I noticed was the dark grainy graphics and the fact that you can only look left or right. There is no jump. You can't look up or down which is kind of a pain when you are trying to see the layout of the room. At first I thought it was cool to have unlimited ammo, but it takes away the jitters of entering a room not knowing if you have the ammo to clear it. I also kind of like that you didn't spend hours wandering around an endless estate trying to find one little clue or animation that would allow you to advance to the next area. I hate having to pay $2.50 a minute listening to menus just to discover where a screwdriver is. Then again, when you do find it, it's a good feeling. You could walk through this game blindfolded. There are no real obscure objects and they might as well have a blinking neon sign telling you everywhere you need to go. I searched all over and never found a typewriter. It seems that you can't save until you die or beat the game. This isn't really a problem because you get like 9 continues. I used 2 to beat the game, it took all of 2 hours! This was really dissapointing because it took FOREVER to beat the first one. I remember those hermit-like days huddled over my controller with the same expression as the zombies I was shooting. Remember the anxiety you felt entering the sewer tunnels where the giant spiders lurked? In this game there are a couple of spiders but they just sit there stupidly until you shoot them. What's the point? The coolest part of the original was that every time you thought it would end, there was a whole other area to explore. Well, Survivor has a few areas to explore but they only consist of 4-5 rooms each. The ending is also very obvious because it is completely stolen from RE 2. I also want to comment on the graphics, they were getting better and better, especially with Code Veronica, but Survivor looks pretty grainy, almost like a Sega CD game. I didn't find the shooting too difficult to master, in fact this whole game was very easy, way too easy and way too short. There is absolutely no chance of you missing anything because if you push the L1 button you do a quick turn towards any enemy in the room. Once they are all dead, the same button faces you towards whatever items are there. These items are never hidden. They are always hovering, spinning and glinting light. There are a couple of instances where you can choose to enter different doors for a slightly different experience, but they always lead back to the exact same path. The annoying thing about this is that once you pick your path and try to backtrack, you are blocked and a sign comes up reading "there is no need to go back". What if I want to go back? It's like they're trying to rush you through the game. "Here's you're items, we'll make it easy to kill the bad guys, here's where you're supposed to go now just move it!" But it is a 1st person RE game, and that's just cool. As I say in my description, save the [money] and rent it.

Not the best Resident Evil game but not the worst either

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First of all if you are a person that likes to save your game alot this game is not for you. You can't save the game a all. At firstI thought that sucked but the game is not that long and hardespecially when you have unlimited hand gun ammo, a magmum, and arocket luncher. The only hard thing is it is first player view and itdoes not automatly aim for you but you get used to it after awhile. The story line is not great but it does not suck. It is notbetter than RE2. The game took me a total of 2 hours to bet but I didhave to start over a few times to find the rocket launcher.... Thetyrant at the end was a little to easy because I did not have to useany health but if you do make a mistake he will hurt you. If you are aResident Evil fan do give the game a shot! END

A very hard to stand on stepping stone in the RE series

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Many of the reviews are right on the money with this game. I was very disappointed with this game. I cuurently own all of the Playstation versions of RE and was happy with the series up until now. I highly anticipated this game after I had completed RE3. When it came out, I heard that it was a cousin to the dreamcast release of Code:Veronica. Well, Dreamcast gets alot of points over playstation for having a better game. My first disappointment was the firstperson point of view of this game. The second was the length of the game. When I bought this game, I was ready to spend a couple weeks on another RE title. But this one took about an hour to beat and left me wanting more and more. That may be one good point of this game, that it left people wanting more of the classic style RE. Which brings us to another point. Although the storyline adds to the RE series by bringing us to a remote island owned by Umbrella, where ( ironically) the Code:Veronica game takes place, they happen to leave no possibility of any future stories on this island by the end of the story. I think any future RE titles would have to expand to other locals, which in my opinion, would just be a little too much in a series that has been a great story up until now. Long story short, if it werent for Silent Hill, I probably would have given up on the whole RE gaming due to this latest title.

If There's A Remake, Get It, Otherwise Skip This Title!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off by stating that I got this game with the strategy guide, and I have yet to see what any of the pages look like. This game is painfully easy and un-advanced.

In Japan, the gamers were able to play this much more like "House of the Dead" games, rather than in the US where it seems that Capcom wants to cash in on the American lust for first-person shooters. The light gun is just something you CAN get for the PSX, but it isn't what you might call "Standard Issue" for the conventional hard-core gamer. A light gun additive being required or at least allowed (I'm not sure if it is, a gun costs sometimes ..., and I have a few freinds who had problems playing this with it) would have made this SO MUCH BETTER! Also, give us rapid fire for the guns!

Also, while I have seen much worse, the graphics can use a serious polishing. Also, the animation is distorted by the fully 3-D world, and the first person view destroys all fear techniques used so well before.

The sound is terrible. To start off, there is really no decent music like in RE's 2&3, the music in here is really both bland and pathetic. Also, the voice acting is pretty bad, but I'm sure that it would sound a whole lot better if it didn't sound like you were listening to them underwater. However, while the sound it awful, it's nowhere near as completely worthless as much as the sound in the first RE title(mainly the beyond dismal music and voice acting).

Now, the story, well, actually, it's not so bad. It does have a really good setup and a few good plot twists, and also the main character was told to investigate by his freind Leon S Kennedy (the hero of RE2 who could with one finger kick Chris Redfeild's ...!)! Also, the area's that are only accessible through replay have some excellent files that rival the best of RE's 2&3. However, the decent (although terribly short) storyline is destroyed by all lack of realism in the gameplay. I mean face it; you fight a Tyrant only 20 minutes into the game, the puzzles solve themselves, enemies can't hit you when they are directly behind you, and even if they could, you have SO MUCH health, and you generally start off in the same basic location when you start with your next "life".

All in all, this game is far from worthless, but even further from being able to hold onto the "Resident Evil" title it holds. I liked the first one, I was blown away by the second, the third one rocked my world, and now...this. I'm now just waiting for Code Veronica for the PS2, while playing something else.

zzzzzzz....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Trust me when I tell you that this game is not worth a rental let alone a purchase. This game is definately the weakest of the RE series. This is obviously a last ditch effort to rake in a few more dollars with the Resident Evil name. This first person shooter game lacks any originality or creativity. It's the same thing over and over and over and over (well, you get the idea). The gameplay is sloppy and the animation is a joke. Your character is lame and slow and seemingly stupid. Don't bother wasting your time or money on this game. The reviews that you've read up to this point are correct...wake me up when it's over.

not a real great game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this RE game is by far the worst one. The controls are poor, the story really isn't that great, and doesn't add all that much to the actual RE plot. It's more of a Tangent to the storyline than anything else. It was also way too short, as it only took me about 2 hours to beat, and there are no save points. There are no real shocking or really really scary moments as in all the other RE games. It is also very easy to pass better weapons as I did on my 1st time through the game. (I missed all but like 2 or 3 weapons)

Ok guilty pleasure

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I didn't think the game was as bad as a couple of reviews pointed out. I enjoyed it for the most part. Granted the flaws in the game are noticeable but it's not at the top of my list of terrible games.

The graphics were a bit smooched and not as detailed as the other games. It seemed as the graphic wizards really rushed this.

Sound-wise the sound is ok. The music keeps the game going and doesn't become monotonous. The RE games all have a decent soundtrack.

The controls could have used work but I still found them to be adequate enough.

Just like the RE games this has a decent story behind. You play as Vincent, a guy whose lost his memory and is finding clues about himself. What he finds, though, is surprising and shocking.

In the end, it's not the worst game ever. I enjoyed it. Granted it's not up to par with the other games but I found it all right enough to play to the end. It's got practically everything the other games have except it's made into a first person shooter with mixed results. It's a guilty pleasure.

The One And Only Shoot'em Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I had the luck to play the Japanese verson and it rocks. I loved the game play and the graphics are awesome. The only thing I was disappointed about was the time it took to beet it. Other than that, this belongs with everyone's RE collection.

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