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Best RE Online yet
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User
RE:Outbreak is one of Capcom's best yet. The online play is great especially cooperating with others. The AI is pretty good (with the zombies sensing your presence). The variety of weapons adds to the gameplay. The list of characters are well balanced. I'd say buy it rather than rent it. If you're hardcore RE, buy it.
-Oddjob007
An ONLINE game
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User
This is a great online game..yes,yes it does come with single player, but that lacks in quality - poor AI. However the online or network play is one of the best. Many say the lack of communication hinders the proformance of the game...but that is not true, the people that post that are the ones who do not want challenges or a little scare. Overall the online mode is great...almost impossible to become bored of!
The best Resident Evil outside the main series!
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User
Outbreak is a nice change of pace from the usual story-driven RE's. It took me a while to get used to the new gameplay elements...The enemies in this game can actually come through doors, so there is no such thing as a real safe location. You even have to watch out for enemies while reading files or trying to solve puzzles. The bosses are incredibly fun to fight, and each one has about 2 different way of beating it. There are TONS of unlockables! Each time you perform certain tasks in one of the five scenarios you will gain an extra unlockable and you will have to gain a certain number of points to unlock the secret. There are art galleries, movie galleries, sound galleries, secret characters/costumes (about 30 altogether), etc.
The game is broken up into 5 scenarios, and there are no saves until you complete a scenario. Each scenario takes place in a different part of Raccoon City, there are many places that you will visit from Resident Evil 2 & 3, and the storyline slightly connects to the main series. In offline mode, you play with 2 other computer-controled characters. The AI can be incredibly stupid at times however. (ie. running into a zombie, walking around in "danger" while they have a first aid spray, wasting ammo,) The only other bad thing I saw in the game is that you cannot drop an item. You only have 4 item spaces for each character (except Yoko). You can switch an item for another, but the ability to drop an item should have been a no brainer for this game. All in all, it is a great game whether you're playing offline or online.
-Billy
EVIL HITS A HOME RUN-ALMOST
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User
I am a big fan of the Resident Evil series - and this is by far the best of the lot. Since I tend not to play well with others - and most of my friends do not understand me entering the console gaming world so late in life - I am reviewing the single player/off-line mode only. The scenes and character renditions are the best I have seen in the series...and some of the cut scenes are spectacular: creepy - yet strangely beautiful - at the same time. The characters (you can choose 1 of 8) are well-drawn (some, dare I say, are even kind of sexy!) and have distinctive personalities and "special" skills - which give the game enormous replay value. The gameplay is very different from most of the other RE games - in that it is less linear - and allows for a much more chaotic feel (as both you, and other non-zombied, AI characters (of whom you can have limited interactions & can share/exchange items) are frantically trying to escape the flesh-munching hordes. Another plus, is that you must reach a level's end - not only without getting eaten - but before your blood is overtaken by the zombie virus which is in your system!!! Also Outbreak has, in my opinion, a much more tense, panic-inducing feel about it, making the terror far more palpable.
Now for the reason for only 4 stars: As this game is difficult - even on the "easy" setting - the designers needed to allow a player the ability to save more often (heck, once would have even been nice!!!!!) - not just as a "temporary", one-time basis - (ie: you can reload a temporary save - but then the save is gone). After having to replay an entire level over several times - even when you were minutes from completion - can make a sane man want to take a bite out of his cat (art imitating life?)!!! Also the load times (even when reentering a door) seems to take forever. Lastly is the limited, repetitive chatter by some of the AI characters that "follow you" - which becomes increasingly annoying as time goes by. At first it is kind of endearing and entertaining...but after a while, hearing the same phrases over and over and over - kind of make you want to turn your weapon on them (if it were possible) instead of the zombies - or at the very least lock them out of the room to become zombie side dishes. Once their screaming dies down you can finally enjoy the blissful silence!
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Evilness to The Max!!
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User
I recently bought this game and at first I was a little wiery of it then the more i played it the better i seemed to enjoy it...The multiple different characters you can choose from makes one of the best things in my opion, i can beat each senario with every person so this gives a different edge to the game play. Although i have not yet played the network version it looks to be very good also. So in conclusion i think everybody who likes the Survival horror genre to go out and buy this.
A must have!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User
I've always been a huge fan of Resident Evil. This is definitely a must have in the series, it's not a money maker or a quick fill in. Outbreak tells the story of the civilians of Raccoon City trying to escape the unexplainable nightmare. This game brings new light to the Resident Evil franchise. Online play makes the game so much more real. People do what they want to do and respond how they want to respond. The environments are breath taking and the game play is unmatched. It's the only Resident Evil I've played that has a good reply value, with 8 playable characters plus 31 characters to unlock. It's not just online either there's a scenario mode which you can also unlock new characters, levels, movies, photos, music, and a couple other things... he he! All I have to say is play it for yourself, you won't be disappointed.
BEST RESEVIL YET
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User
Man, this game is spooky. Featuring a revolutionary feature where you can play through story mode with 3 other humans online, this is by far the BEST resident evil game yet. as always, umbrella is putting racoon city under a quarantine and you gotta get the heck out! shoot your way through darkness, zombies, monsters, and all kinds of nasty creatures that'll make any gamer's stomach turn. and, for the first time, watch your character turn into a zombie when you die! i highly reccomend this smash hit. great job, capcom!!
Online fun
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User
the newist addition to the resident evil saga is the best of all. with online coop play that is endless fun.
Re, outbreak
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User
Awsome game loading time is anoying, all you need to do is get the hdd module for the ps2 and the loading time is cut down alot.
Im not 2 sure of the price on one, you can buy a ps2 with one in it for like $160, comes with final fantasy 11 online **cough"" rip off ""cough"... any how resident evil outbreak is cool. Lots of character just incase you dont like one for some reason. Its a long game, bosses are cool, cut sceens are cool... just buy it from amazon, retain cost right now is about $60-70-80 OUCH!
very good game, but it lacks epic status.
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User
The idea for an online Resident Evil game is fantastic, but the final product is not exactly what it should have been. The game should have been larger, With voice chat and more story. It is a very enjoyable experience though With 8 playable characters all with there own special abilities story and traits, a huge shop full of movies, sounds and costumes to unlock. This is a great game with plenty of reasons to play it again and again, I just wish they would have put more story and more scenarios in it.
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