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Amazing, Heart-Touching, Beautiful

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bet the title of this review surprised a hell lot of you, didn't it? How could a survival horror that contains "explicit scenes of violence and gore" be beautiful and heart-touching? Simple.

You gotta watch the story. Watch all the cut-scenes and FMVs(full motion videos). Good English understanding is vital to enjoying Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Don't skip any of them. If you do, the game will make no sense. For me it wouldn't, that is.

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis varies between times of horror and times of semi-peace. Fights with Nemesis and some fast monsters contain a helluva lot of action. Zombies, on the other hand, are very slow & weak and quite fun to kill. Relaxing compared to Nemesis :p

This isn't a shooter game. No mouse aiming whatsoever. No cross-hair. Just a 3D character set in 2D textures that look like 3D, but they are really not. It's 2008, I have quite a good PC, but I still LOVE this game.

Oh yeah, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis isn't very scary. Sometimes you WILL get shocked, but it's not like Doom 3 or anything. This game is a lot about role-playing. You gotta FEEL what the Jill & Carlos are experiencing.

THEN you will come to love this game and will want to play it even after you have beaten it.

Yummie Zombie Goodness

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I finished this one years ago and it's great to run through it again (with graphics maxed on my PC). I need to download virtual PC so I can revisit more classic 98 games like RE and RE2. A must-have for any post-apocalyptic collection (reminds me... I have to resupply the bunker...)

"He has been fatally wounded by zombies." No kidding!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Resident Evil 3: NEMESIS was a welcome addition to the hugely successful and apparently never-ending RE franchise unleashed in the later 1990s. By using a simple but strong formula which combined the two genres of horror and action, used third rather than first person perspective for the characters and dealt out liberal doses of gore while also challenging the player to use his head, Capcom literally created a monster. As proof of this I reference an argument I once in witnessed in a local bar between four or five grown men over whether the submachine gun, Magnum or Mossberg 12-gauge was most effective for one-shot stops of Umbrella's failed science projects, the zombies.

Capcom released NEMESIS a few years back to tide-over the fans who were grumbling for the always coming but seemingly never arriving sequel to RE: 2. Some were confused and thought NEMESIS was the sequel, not realizing it is more of a companion volume: Its events take place more or less simultaneously with those of RE: 2, and in some of the same places. It is therefore not so much an advancement of the complex RE storyline as an extended side-trip, but it is still well worth your time. I still break this bad boy out every blue moon on my trusty old PC.

NEMESIS opens "in media res" with ex-cop heroine Jill Valentine running for her life amidst the burning ruins of downtown Racoon City. As we all know, the villainous Umbrella Corporation unleashed its deadly mutagenic virus in the city, turning 90% of the city into flesh-eating zombies and the other 10% into a buffet. Jill's master plan is the same as every other RE hero: to get the hell out of Dodge. Unfortunately for her, and you, that is a lot harder than it sounds. The police have been basically wiped out and your only friends are the survivors of an Umbrella special-ops squad, some of whom turn out to be the kind of pals you could really do without.

NEMESIS is similar to the other RE games in that it combines the now-familiar themes of A) finding various useful objects and weapons scattered around the city and putting them to use B) fending off zombines and other disgusting lab projects brought to you courtesy of Umbrella C) solving puzzles which range from "how freaking dumb do you think I am?" to "if I don't figure out this stupid water puzzle soon, I'm gonna put my foot in the television!" all amidst a lot of creepy music and spooky sound effects. The main difference is the presence of the Nemesis, a nasty piece of work who appears about a quarter of the way through the game and truly earns his nickname. He's yet another Umbrella sci-fi project gone bad, and his only purpose in life is to kill STARS members, which means you. He's reminiscent of the Tyrant guys you fought in RE: 2, but virtually indestructible and much, much faster. Believe me when I tell you will hate this SOB more than your landlord, ex-girlfriend and noisy neighbor combined. He could give persistence lessons to the Terminator.

NEMESIS boasts a few gimmicks to spice up the action, including a playable sidekick character from Umbrealla's mercenary army named Carlos Olivera, and a "choose your response" function which allows the player to determine different outcomes to the game. Since many of the outcomes are radically different from others, it's the sort of gimmick that makes you want to go back and play again.

NEMESIS isn't a perfect game. For one thing, the speed of the "inventory" screen is agonizingly slow and the fonts, which look very bad, also roll out like they're covered in molasses (try holding down the space bar to make 'em move faster). The auto-aiming feature they've added since RE: 2 is more harmful than helpful, since the computer has a nasty habit of auto-aiming at targets which are a lot less threatening than the one standing right in front of you, and the inability to save the game except at a few selected points can be pretty frustrating. And as in all the RE games, you spend way too much time running around over vast distances; forgetting the lighter or that stupid lockpick can cost you boring minutes of running through screens you've already been through 8 times before. In some ways the playability of the game is actually lower than that of RE: 2, and I've also heard that the game will not save if you try to play it on anything more advanced than Windows 98. Be warned.

All that aside, it's still a good game and you can buy it for your PC for practically peanuts. I used to play it at work all the time with the sound off (thank God for privacy screens!) Call me a sick tool (many have), but there's something about blowing a zombie's head off with a shotgun that just brings a smile to my face :)

NnyCW for Capcom City

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis adds a nice touch to the Resident Evil formula. Not only do you have to deal with oncoming hordes of zombies, but now you have another worry...being chased by a Nemesis that will come after you no matter what you do to try and stop it. The addition of Nemesis made this game one of the most enjoyable, and my favorite of the Resident Evil\'s. The addition to now be able to walk up stairs without pressing a button really did help way back when, though wondering how that was ever not a feature in the games is a bit of a puzzlement. And on the subject of puzzles, the only flaw this game has is the \"water puzzle\" near the end of the game. Only because it is totally random. Meaning you can get lucky and solve it in 20 seconds, or it could take about 30 minutes to beat. But other than that, this is a great game that any Resident Evil fan should have in their collection. NnyCW for CapCity.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: July 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played the playstation version of resident evil 3 and I can say that the PC version has better graphics. The game itself is a lot of fun and is filled with several secrets to enhance the replay value. Somebody said that this game has problems on windows xp. You have to go to run and type "DXDIAG" and run it. Then go to the sound tab and turn the Hardware Sound Accleration Level to No accleration. The game should work fine after that.

HARD, BUT FUN

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is about 5 levels, but they are WICKED hard. NOthing more to say. go out and buy this game. Play with cheats if u get bored, taht will keep u going for a couple more weeks.

Win XP is a problem

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It doesnt seem to work on XP but works fine on ME and below. I just Think it's too slow to change views and not a hard core FPS game. But good to waste time while not doing something important.

Resident Evil 3 was awesome.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Flesh eating zombies, plagued creatures and vicious animals. You want a game that will scare the pants off of you...well here it is. Resident evil 3 is the best resident evil(for playstation 1 and computer). What i loved about this game was that it made you think what you had to do. For example, you either have the choice of doing something that will help save your life or help you kill the monster. Also you have to think like.."What am i gonna do next?", "Where do i go?", or "Should i take this weapon or should i save room for something i might need?". What i didn't like was the graphics. They weren't really what i had expected. I mean it would have been a little better if the mouths moved and u can see there faces a little better. If only it had a little more detail, but all in all it was a great game. If you want suspense, creepy music, and blood thirsty monsters to blow away, then this is your game.

The best selling game on earth

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't much surprised to play the first of the resident evil game, simply because of the graphics... The second one was a great achievement, and the third one is simply the best of all the games. The graphics were simply superb and the suspence kept me glued to my computer... In this part we get to see Jill Valentine again, striving hard to save her life from flesh eating zombies and she plans it with the help of mikhial victor, a member of UBCS.. they plan to reach the clock tower via the L train but the seemingly unstopable monster plagues her constant struggle for survival...
Now this seems quite prosaic but actually this holds all the gem for the game freaks and specially for the resident evil fans...
go for it!!!

I wasn't impressed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I had high expectations for Resident Evil based on the hype these games have received, but so far I'm not impressed. Resident Evil is SOOOO far below the entertainment value of Evil Dead: Hail to the King that I can't imagine why Resident Evil got glowing reviews from the video game press and Evil Dead got a cold shoulder. There is absolutely no humor at all in this game; it's environments are unwaveringly dark, the music gloomy, and the graphics [are disappointing]. The total effect is one of unremitting bleakness; couldn't Jill Valentine crack some jokes, show some skin, do something to add some levity to this game? There are a lot of unnecessary and annoying "movies" that you have to sit through - you can't even open a door without pausing the game for more than 5 seconds to watch a movie of a door opening. Jill Valentine is crudely drawn; her head bursts into a pixelated blob every time she moves. To make matters worse, the controls are completely illogical, (for example, to fire your weapon you have to hold down the C+X+Spacebar keys simultaneously) and I found that I couldn't change them on my PC. You don't get nearly enough ammo, too. I'm really looking forward to the new Evil Dead game, because Resident Evil just doesn't cut it.

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