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Amazing Graphics! terrible game!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The graphics of out break were with out doubt quite possibly the best ps2 has ever seen. But you cant change camera angles you cant move quickly all in all the game sucks! it's like watching a bad movie. i loved the resident evil games! but this one seems like they spent way too much time beefing it up and for got that keeping it simple is always best!

Sorry 2 stars.

Easily One Of The Best Resident Evils; Great Horror Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

With a wide cast of playable characters, and taking place concurrent with events through several of the 'main' chapters of the Resident Evil series, 'Resident Evil: Outbreak' takes a diverse bunch of citizens of Raccoon City and has them thrown together by fate to face the horrors of the city's zombie outbreak. In all of the game's scenarios, there are four characters per team, the player handles one character and the computer takes care of the rest (in the 'online' version multiple players can join up). I love a game where there's a team scenario, whether it's multi-player or the computer controls your allies, and it works really great in horror games. Here, considering the computer controls 3 team-mates simultaneously but working together is essential, everything comes together surprisingly smoothly. You can call for your teammates, ask for help, share items, etc., and they do the same where you're concerned. The computer-controlled characters act as if they have ideas on their own, and individual personalities come out well (ex. some characters are more 'team players' where others are more self-oriented; some more bold and agrressive; some lack confidence and hesitate at bad times; etc) You can have your character talk to others by pressing buttons, but each time they, for example, call out for help it's not necesarily phrased the same way, alternating between several possible lines. Occasionally, the dialogue from the computer-controlled characters is not especially relevant to the situation, but that turned out to be a plus in an unexpected way - sometimes the timing of different lines comes out very funny. Each character also has special skills - some have better fighting moves, some excel at constructing makeshift weapons, some are skilled at healing themselves and their partners and one can even avoid zombies by playing dead!

As the game progresses, new challenges instead of just battling the hordes of the undead will crop up, including a good number of weird monsters. Puzzle-solving remains a part of the overall Resident Evil makeup. Going through different stages, there's also the element of discovering new and disturbing secrets, which is an important part of pretty well any horror game.

For the view you get a good camera angle that sees the characters and action from slightly overhead, letting everything be seen in good detail from the texture of the envirornments to the characters to the well imagined monsters. With up to four characters, plus enemies and non-character 'civilians' on the screen at some times the individual characters are usually smaller in scale (to the screen) than in most of the Resident Evil games but it's never confusing or lacking in detail; they did a really good job making sure you got a nice clear picture and can appreciate different aspects of the game. The controls work well and each character has quite a bit of stuff they can do, not just run/shoot/heal-with-herb.

I enjoyed a lot of the aesthetic aspects of the game. The opening credits feature some of the best, most haunting music ever in a video game and they way they combine the swelling uplift of the music at one point with a representation of the T-virus transforming everything gives it a chilling, apocalyptic feel. Darkly beautiful. The graphics on a creature like the leech-monster are really impressive, everything constantly moving and writhing, really well done and distinctive.

The characters: instead of it being pretty much all elite STAR-type commandoes, the focus is split. You do have one in that traditional mode, the police officer Kevin, plus a similar character in Mark, an older security guard who draws on Vietnam combat experience. Mark is probably the physical powerhouse of the group and one of the best characters. Other characters include a waitress (Cindy) from the bar where the zombies first attack, a doctor (George) and a deliveryman (Jimmy), and their personalities are pretty diverse. Yoko, a university student who from the start seems like she might have some hidden backstory to her, is one of the best characters to play, partly for that reason. Cindy, without there being much really overt, is just one of the sexiest characters in a video game, both in the way she's animated and the voice, as well as the fact that she just comes across really nice. Like Mark, she's one of the most helpful characters to have around, and one of the best to play. Yoko seems shy but nice, but there's that undercurrent there that 'is there something else going on that may not be as trustworthy, or not?' and that helps make her even more interesting. On the other hand, David, while possessing one of the best skills in the game (makeshift weapon constuction) comes off as something of a jerk a lot of the time, which kind of adds something on. Not all of the Raccoon City residents who end up banded together are necessarily going to be instantly likable.

This is one of the best of the Resident Evil series, and possibly the scariest; and there aren't a lot of games in the horror genre with this 'co-operative team' setup (quite a few you'll get a pair working together, but not a fairly largely group). Incidentally, you can unlock other characters to play as the game goes along and you achieve certain things, and though they closely follow the patterns of the main characters, it's still a great bonus. A must-have for fans of horror games.

A good edition to the resident evil series

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

but not good enough to stand out from the others. First ill start off with some of the goods. There are weapons everywhere so if you run out of ammo for your gun, the steel pipe makes a good substitute. If you run out of item space then your partner can carry some of your items and they wont throw away the key items. The same good old resident evil monsters like hunters, cerberuses and even a new tyrant look even better than ever. Graphics are amazing and sound is too. Now for the cons. The puzzles are still frustrating and a lot of backtracking is needed to progress from one scenario to another. The inventory spaces now are cut down to 4 instead of the usual 6 or 8. This can be really frustrating because you have to think very strongly about what to carry. ive only named a few of the pros and cons but if your not a fan of the resident evil franchise and are looking for one to try out i would recommend resident evil 4 or 3 instead of this. This isnt to say that it isnt good, Im actually planning to buy the second outbreak but 3 or 4 would probably be more enjoyable to soeone who hasnt played resident evil before.

Killing Spree

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This resident evil is pretty good, but at first you just have to get used to the controls. Otherwise its buy!

Disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After playing a few of the other RE games, I was excited about this one, despite the different programmers. Utter disappointment was my experience. In fact, I haven't even attempted other RE games by the same programmers, which were obviously just generated with the RE name for the money.

Resident Evil: Outbreak

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have to say that this Resident Evil was botched. I don't know what they were thinking when they created this, I don't think they were actually. The characters are bland and a bit cheesy. They have no originality and credibility. Why would you want to play as a waitress killing zombies? The loading times are horrible and extremely slow. I mean really, really, slow. Unless you have the hard drive then it speeds up the game by installing the game files on it, but if you are like one of the many people with the slim PS2 then you can't use the hard drive. Thank you Sony!

First Thing To Do is locate the "Equip" button!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First time playing this game I was surprised at how well the game looks. Great graphics and solid story line between Resident Evil 1 through 3 games! Excellent sound and music backgrounds. I love that you can choose more characters to use. Now for the negatives: Finding the equip button was the most challenging thing ever when first starting the game. For about 30 minutes after pickin up the gun, I could not figure out how to equip the gun and use it! So I look at my trusty manual thats included with the game and it indicates to press the X button to equip the weapons, and hello?, the X button is not doing anything! Then I started pressing every button on the controller to find the darn thing, and after dying like three times in the opening scene I finally found the equip button! the equip button is not the X button, the equip button is the "START" button, and no these controls are nothing similar to the last Resident Evil games. Actually manuevering the characters in this game is more challenging compared to the Nemesis controls and Resident Evil 4.

Thats the only Beef I would say about this game, other then that once you get all the controls figured out, its a great game!

I highly recommend getting the network adaptor for this game, the cooperative play on this game is awesome and helps alot to find those extras and to kill as much Zombies as possible, especially when dealing with the Big monsters in the game!

Thanks for reading!

Great Graphics, Great Cutscene, HORRIBLE GAMEPLAY!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for maybe 40 minutes before asking myself, "what's the point?" The game is non responsive, un logical, and completely boring. I will say though, the graphics are AMAZING and the opening cutscene is maybe my favorite cutscene of all time.
Anyways, I'm trading this in for a PS2 copy of RE4 today, and I expect most people will want to do the same.

More Annoying Than Scary

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I actually own 'Resident Evil: Outbreak File #2', but I rented the first Outbreak for over a week, and let me say this Outbreak is by far the most annoying Resident Evil I've played/seen!

Gist Of The Game: If you've played all the other Resident Evils out there, then you know what the games are about. If not, here's the scoop: Umbrella Corporation has 'accidentally' released a deadly virus into the air, turning all living/non living into undead, flesh eating creatures! Now it's up to eight survivors -- all with unique personalities/careers -- to try and get out of Raccoon City before the virus takes over them!

Gameplay: You control one of eight characters (3 females and 5 males) and out of the rest, two of them join you on a mission to complete each scenario without being taken over by the virus. Meaning, if your 'virus gauge' reaches 100%, you die. Overall, you have a time limit on whatever scenario you choose (there are 5 scenarios to start out with).

My Opinion On Game: The only nice things I can say about the game is the unique characters that Capcom made (along with people who wear more 'normal' outfits'). Also, the levels, the bosses, and even the creepy monsters that sometimes chase you around in certain places are rather disturbing. I admit that this first Outbreak is better with the scenarios than the second one.
Actually, even though the characters are unique, but they're the biggest flaws in the game! You can't even choose the people to acompany you, and their dialouge -- they just can't keep their mouths shut! They barely help you out in the first place! The side characters just usually run around complaining and whining about the situation.
Another thing is the whole aiming system. The second Outbreak actually improves greatly on this, but for this one...it stinks. It would help to move and 'auto-aim' at the enemies rather than doing it manually (I guess it's good for people looking for a challenge).
Last but not least is the puzzles. Usually I can figure out puzzles without any help (at hard ones, I sometimes shut the system off and think it over) but these Outbreak puzzles can be quite tricky without help from a players guide. Also, puzzles and the number of monsters changes depending on which difficulty level you pick. Even the easy difficulty can be somewhat hard.

Overall: I guess if you're a Resident Evil fan, then I reccomend playing this just for the heck of it. Personally though, the second Outbreak is much better -- unfortunately though, the scenarios aren't as frightening and...neither are the monsters/bosses...

Great game if you own PS2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the only Resident Evil game I own. It has 5 or 6 levels to choose from. The best part of this game was you can unlock short movies and other outfits for players. You can also unlock red, green, blue, gold, or black stick figuers to use. This game had good controllers, nice graphics, but the story is like a movie, probably better than the Resident evil movie.

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