Resident Evil Revelations hands-on preview How far along is Resident Evil: Revelations? Far enough that Capcom have got Mr Creepy Voice to record the title. From the title screen - RESIDENT. EVIL... REVELATIONS - you know this is the real deal.
Boot it up and deal only gets realer. I'd describe Revelations as Resi 1 filtered through the lens of Resident Evil 4. Traditional survival horror action filmed from a dynamic over the shoulder view.
We begin with Jill Valentine waking in a mysteriously swanky bedroom. The sheets are dirty and the walls splattered with ambiguous substances.
Finding the screwdriver triggers the first scare of the demo. A monster bursts from a nearby cupboard - a classic Resi shock tactic. It's that old trick of making you walk past unsuspecting scenery once, twice, and shouting boo the third time.
This new enemy type resembles a Regenerator, only when it gets near, a leech-like tongue emerges from its gaping maw. Made of horrible wobbling meat parts it could almost pass for a Silent Hill meat monster.
Unlike Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D you can't strafe when in aiming mode. A major bugbear of a few players, though here it feeds in to the survival horror vibe. Locking players to the spot reintroduces combat risk/reward - flee or fight?
Meat monsters are total bullet sponges, and every encounter left me with practically no ammo. Item drops are cleverly paced to ensure you're capable of progressing, but constantly hovering around mild panic.
Later in the demo, Jill picks up a pair of item scanning goggles. Controlled in first-person view, these can pick out pertinent level details and items otherwise hidden behind curtains and tables.
In truth, they feel like Show-Off Goggles, designed to make you constantly gawp at Capcom's phenomenal level detail. One dining room, full of glistening cutlery and a cloud of waist high smoke is almost as pretty as anything we've seen on Wii.
Now, maybe three days of E3 madness have left me feeling particularly vulnerable, but Revelations made me jump a good couple of times. That's almost unheard of in a handheld game. I think this will be very special indeed.
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This is one title i literally cannot wait for. Resi 1 style shocks with Resi 4 style gameplay makes for one awesome game! The visuals are absolutely stunning in these static 2d screen shots, so i can only imagine how good it looks playing it. The sooner this arrives the better.
I compeltely agree with JamieRIOT, this looks amazing. Well, with one exception - Jill's voice. Okay, the actress used in the first few games wasn't exactly going to win awards, but unless Capcom suddenly start hiring Oscar winning writers that doesn't really matter. The new actress sounds like a ditsy Marilyn Monroe type, just not right at all. I just don't get why Capcom insist upon flitting between different looks and voices for established characters. Sexualisation in RE3 aside, Jill looked and sounded just fine early in the series, but now, well, I find it hard to see her as the same character.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of the "ZOMG! Her voice is different! Boycott the game! Boycott Capcom!" crowd, I'm still going to buy the game and I'll probably get used to the changes, but I can't pretend I'm not disappointed on that one level.
this is going to be epic hopefully resident evil mercs will keep us going till it comes out
I was initially disapointed that this isn't coming out until the new year but seeing everything else that will be out before christmas I'm happy to have something coming out next year, just to give my wallet time to recover
Was that Hunk at the end?!
Looks great
I think I'd rather have a Resi 4 style game through the lense of Resi 4, but still looks great.
it looks better than any wii game i've seen with next gen lightin fx dynamic shadows bump lighting...err wii could pull any of those off very well
Why is it that in all the screenshots and footage that has been shown we have only seen one enemy type? Did Capcom not say there were zombies in this game? There is a theory that these monsters shown are placeholder models, is this true? I'll be very dissapointed if we only fight these things as they are really kind of lame and it's quite dull seeing the same monster so much.
I just Hope Capcom don't stop you from deleting your save data in the game and let you start a new one if you want.
this trailer shows you how badass chris is he's wearing a tshirt in the middle of a snow storm
I watched the trailer on 3DS and it does look like a good, solid, old-school Resi. Which reminds me, I must buy Resi 4 Wii sharpish...
i dont really know why people say its scary... i played resi 5 on xbox and the only scary thing was how revealing shevas clothes where.... its more of a drama than a horror if you ask me.