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WTF!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This was the worst game I ever played. I coudn't even get pass the first part. There's no storyline and I had time to fix a grilled cheese sandwhich in between rooms. Thats how long the load times were! You run around tryin to save yourself from zombies when the real zombies are right behind you! This mindless group of people running around supposedly trying to help you. All they really do is get in the way and run off without you. Lets not even get started on the repeated "have you found anything yet?" This game was not worth $50 bucks. I took it back the next day and got a full refund.

this is an atrocity

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is fun for about five minutes, then you start hearing all of the annoying characters repeat their ignorant and random one line, headache-inducing blurts of stupidity. i bought this game the day it came out, only to be almost totally sick of it by the end of the evening. loading times take an eternity, no decapitations, very little room to carry items, and a story line that has no cohesion make this game a sorry heir to the resident evil franchise, which by the way, is a joke these days anyhow. i wouldn't even recommend this a rental to my worst enemy.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been a big fan of the Resident Evil games since the beginning. This is by far the worst RE game to date. The other characters that you interact with are extremely annoying. They constantly repeat the same few words over and over again. They also seem to die rather quickly, even against weak enemies like the zombies. Moving from room to room will also make you angry. You can take a nap in the amount of time from when you open the door to a room and actually step in it. Maybe it's just me, but the controls seem to have become worse too. The kick and tackle commands are next to useless, and most of the camera angles just plain suck. I am very disappointed with this game. Horrible job on this one Capcom. I wish I could give it 0 stars.

Cool, awesome CGI opening

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Resident Evil Outbreak is the first and only RE game I've played, and that bugs me cause I can't compare two of the games together. But, oh well.
You play as one of eight survivors (I always played as the attractive waitress) who must fight off hordes of zombies too escape from Raccoon City, which has been devastated by the T-Virus.
It's pretty realistic, and the puzzles are generally hard, but at the same time, everything is hidden in places that they might be hidden in, like under a newspaper or in a cupboard.
The characters I find are good. Each one has their own speciality. One has lock-picks, one starts off with a gun, and another one can carry more items in her knapsack etc, so you have to choose wisely which one to use.
Gameplay was pretty good. I've heard complaints about icky controls, and that newcomers to the series won't like them, but I found them fine. Even the camera, which is fixed in one place, was fine, and I asn't expecting that. The biggest problem is, I've ogtten used to in third person games, having a target lock dooby, which puts a ring or something around the bad guy you're trying to kill, but I got over that pretty quick.
And now, the most important thing I want to say to about this game, is the cut scene graphics.
Wow.
The opening credits, is so intense. It looks, dare I say it, beautiful, even though its premise is -guys get killed by monster, rats eat guy- The music to it is unbelievable. Best cut-scene graphics I've seen, ever. Period.
At other cutscenes, like one where zombies get burned up by fuel. The fire and petrol looks real! REAL! REEEEAAAAAALLLLLL!
Definitely up there on my list for good games.

How Disappointing...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the first Resident Evil game I tried. I like playing Survival Horror games, for example, Silent Hill and Clock Tower 3. However, this game is the worst I have ever played. I was disappointed because of the following reasons:

1. Long and frequent loading time. A large part of the game time is spent on loading. It makes a very annoying experience in playing the game.

2. The inventory system. You are allowed to carry limited amount of items at the same time. Therefore, you have to constantly backtrack and find the itme that you really need.
I have sent two hours and still cannot figure out what I need in the first Scenario in the game.

3. Confusing control. Besides normal game control, you also need to communicate with your computer partners in the game. It makes the control confusing to me.

4. Confusing gameplay. Your computer parnters basically run around with no reason.

5. Time pressure. You pick up game manuals in the game, but you will not have time to read it because the game itself does not pause when you reading it. That is, the zombie can attack you while you are reading a 13-page manual. As a result, I am still confused about the game control.

Havn't played it yet, but 5 stars cause it looks awesome!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is gonna be the coolest resident evil ever! You can play it online or offline (offline for me) and one of the neatest features, you can turn into a zombie! Since it will span through RE1, RE2, and RE3, it will doubly awesome to replay old adventures in sweet new ps2 graphics (the graphics for this look especially great). You've gotta pick this one up!

i am very disappointed so far...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

by the terrible new controls of the game. why change up the controls from a hugely successful franchise? stupid. the camera angles are the worst i've seen in a resident evil game; who knows where the enemies are?!?
i must state that i am a huge RE fan, but i could not be any less interested in playing online games (especially with the ps2). i think the single-player campaign in this game was glossed over in a rush because capcom was focused on putting out a RE online game. what a mistake.
RE4 looks like it will be cool for the Cube, but who knows? hopefully Outbreak doesn't sell well and capcom goes back to the basics which everyone has loved for over a decade now.

quit screwing up RE, capcom!!! the graphics should be better with each release, but don't monkey around with the controls. a successful franchise is successful for a reason, and doesn't need to be overhauled each time a new game comes out.

Outbreak puts the S back in Survival

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As it stands Outbreak is the pinnacle of the Survival Horror genre, but does not come so neatly packed... however it certainly is a very original and a new type of gaming experience. Minus the cons this is still a five star game and a must for SH fans, but those who do not always like this sort of game may find Outbreak a little, how do we say, complex and tedious. The problem with this game is whether you will like its style or not. If you are a SH fan then obviously just get it. If you are not such a SH fan then rental is probably advisory, but be prepared to spend a day or two adjusting to it.

Outbreak sports what could possibly be conceived as endless playability but some things must be sacrificed and changed from the older titles. There is no complete story... (except possibly continue scenarios in Outbreak 2 which looks likely)... just 5 rather large scenarios. Each scenario has roughly two to three save points in vast levels. The gaming experience can last up to thirty minutes between save points. Each game is run in real-time. This means that the pause screen is no longer the items menu screen, but a different button. When you access the item menu screen the game does not pause (this has to do with the online multiplayer mode) and thus things can still attack you. This is actually very good and just makes the game more dramatic and frantic... which it is most of the time. There are 20+ characters to choose from when you fully complete the game. Each character has a special ability for the gaming experience which can range anywhere from picking locks to having a very big weapon at the start. In single player mode the character AI is like nothing you have played with before. The right analogue stick is used for commands... like when you have been attacked by a zombie and are down to your last bit of health you can scream for help and if someone is nearby, and in good mood, they will help you. Sometimes they will not. Other times they will tell you that they do not want to help you ever. If you survive and save them, then you could find them doing very helpful things for you. You can also swap items between players, however this is mainly because you have a very limited inventory (usually only 4 - 5 items) and need cooperation from another team member to help you out. You can also pick up the wounded and drag them around while trying to escape. In real-time this makes Outbreak an absolutely thrilling experience. There is no question, once Outbreak starts to rock it REALLY ROCKS LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE SEEN BEFORE! Imagine standing on a ledge, a zombie smashing through the window trying to catch a wounded guy while you fill some dead nurses head full of hot lead, who happened to be your best buddy only two moments ago before you let her get bit by a rabid dog, while at the same time the doctor who you need to survive is screaming in the corner for help because he has just been attacked by some beast that has just been vaporized in the temperature control room. You don't think twice about it. Floor stomp the nurse when she is down, pick up the doctor and drag him onto the next level to try and find some meds so that he can help you to get better... while at the same time the clock is ticking because everyone is infected and you can not let the virus meter reach 100%! It has all the puzzles, all the monsters, all the mazes of the original game for the diehards.

Load times are Major Pain #1. Some levels take 20 seconds to start up. Movement between rooms is the worst with a delay just under 7 seconds. If you want to play a fluid moving Outbreak experience then you need to buy a PS2 Hard Drive which reduces the load times considerably... but investing in extra PS2 gear may not be the way to go because of Major Pain #2...

.... is that Capcom have really messed up the game's multiplayer system. If you are getting this game for that then be prepared for the ups and downs. This was the game to really pioneer the broadband capability of the PS2. Instead it just doesn't work, is buggy or when it does work you are playing with people who are useless. To have a good on-line game is like winning the lotto. In Europe Capcom delayed the game for half a year because they could not get ISPs to work with them. So everyone in Europe waited for nothing. Capcom says that they may get a European Multiplayer going soon but I would not chance waiting another half a year for it. Multiplayer is flawed at best.

Aside from the problems that game design is amazing. The character movement can be stiff at times and avoiding some zombies nearly impossible, but the damage dynamics of the objects and weapons on yourselves seems almost endless especially when more than two characters start crawling about on the floor while a third limping one is trying to help you up. It is all very realistic with a very organic feel to the whole environments. Although this is not half as scary as Silent Hill 3, the levels look better and the cut scenes are up there in the million dollar cost region no problem.

The bottom line is that this is one of the best PS2 games ever... depending on how you like this Genre. However it is probably a disaster on the Multiplayer front so only get it for the Single Player mode only. Get the HD for faster load speeds.

worst RE game ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The title says it all! I am a HUGE RE fan, and own every game. I have played every RE game for hour after gory hour, over and over for the sheer fun of it...except this game. It has no interesting characters from the RE storyline. The characters are boring, as are the slow-moving encounters. The necessary trading of items with NPC's adds nothing to the game, and in fact makes the game even slower and more tedious. Difficult is great...tedious is not. I never even cared to finish a single round, which says something b/c it was very easy by RE standards (at least, as far as I played into it). INCREDIBLY disappointing. A real departure from the series!

It was worth it to me!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm warning you, there is boring stuff that you might not want to read... but anyways... First of all, I havn't played much of the Resident Evil seris, just the GameCube remake and number 2 + 3 on playstation. But some of my friends love Resident Evil, and were exicted to get this game. I was wondering what was it about these games they liked.
About two weeks ago whenever one of my friends bought the only Resident Evil he didn't have (RE3: Nemesis). I had played the game with him, and I was hooked almost instantly. I finally went online to research about the RE seris, and most of what I have been reading about it was good. And I was thinking, maybe I might get Outbreak also. This past weekend when it came out, another friend of mine (Who is hooked on RE) and me went to EBgames and we both bought our own copies. Before I bought it though I was having some problems, I coudn't decided if I wanted to get it. I had a feeling that this good be fifty dollars on a game I would deslike. But I just said yes... And it was probably one of the best decisions I have ever made! This game is fun offline or online (prefer online more though). You can choose of eight characters in many differnet levels also... This is one of my most favorite games of all time. The best (of only three online games I have) online game I have.
For me it is hard to explain the game, so if you want to know how the game is, buy it... or simply rent it, but I think it is worth the fifty dollars I spent on it... (...)

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