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Boring and frustrating

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As with the first two installments, this RE episode is boring after a few minutes. You have to be a little girl to be scared by this game! The biggest sin is the high difficulty level. Not worth your money.

Wish I Knew

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Bought this when I had windows 98 and it worked fine. Put Windows xp on my computer a few days later and all it will do is play the opening cinemas, then lock up. Can not find any patches or drivers. Thanks Xp for not letting me play my game.

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.

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.

Wake me up when the game's over...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Who said this was scary? Must've been a real whoosie... The game is awkward in it's controls and it's annoying trying to recharge. The graphics are good, but scary? C'mon... If you think this is scary you must've led a sheltered life... I love exciting games and this one bored me... I wouldn't reccommend it to anyone who has a short attention span...

Let these zombies rest in peace

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's another chance to wander round shooting zombies, but anyone who has played either of the previous installments will see this as a dull rehash with absolutely nothing new to offer. Effectively little more than an add-on pack of extra environments for RE2. If only they'd combined those two games, they might just have made something half decent. Capcom should realise that these games aren't getting any better, and at the same time they're obviously getting more predictable and unoriginal. The time has come to stop making them. Still, we're talking about the company who were still making Street-Fighter games post 1993, so what can we expect...

Graphics

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are not that great for pc it just looks like a bunch of sqaures pasted together i could make a better game.
The short movies are still the same. If you put the game on hard it is not so bad. The weapons are a little better and the sound of the guns are close to exact.
P.S. The game is way better on hard.

More of the same?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In general terms this is okay. However, the Nemis is too similar to the tyrant (resident evil 1) and the Big Guy in the green coat (in resident evil 2). The overall advice is when you encounter the Nemis is RUN. The homage in the police station is fairly pointless. After seeing the black cop (from resident evil 2) and the same rooms (plus the same music) it seems a bit...well, useless I suppose.

"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 :)

The Scariest Game for the Playstation!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be the scariest game I have ever played! I have let go over the controller some many times I can't even count them. The controlls are a little hard to master but if you have ever played the first or second one it will be easy. The graphics are ok, especially when the movies appear, and the plot is alright. The majior plot is to escape from this little town but when you do the zombies attack. There is this one huge "bad zombie" who chases you all around, Nemisis. He is really scary and you can run into him at any point during the game, except for the first ten minutes! There is a lot of scary moments and I wouldn't recomend this game for small kids. It is really hard, scary, but very very fun.

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