Working from home today so decided to dl the Resident Evil 6 demo.
I am a massive fan of 4 and 5. I plucked down 60 hours of RE5 in a week, getting 1000/1000, and I've never played that game on co-op once. So I'm familiar with all the issues have with that game.
But this demo is pretty bad. For starters, it lacks the exploration of RE4 and even 5, it's corridor after corridor. On the Leon section, that's not so bad, because there are A LOT of zombies - particularly one section in a tight ass cramped hallway. But that doesn't change the fact that the game presented in the demo is pretty standard shootin' third person shooter. The demo never lets you alone to soak in the atmosphere, it's Hollywood thrill after thrill. Escape from a horde of zombies? RUNNNNN! Repeat. There's even an overly long - and just as silly - section where you fire up a car all with qte. It's like they took a look at RE4's qtes - one of the few games that does them right - and said,"let's do the opposite of that".
Despite the fact the game is single player the whole way through the first time you play the game - no co-op option, it still feels co-op centric. On the Leon section, I never really felt alone and oppressed because his lady friend was with him. I got to one section and had to wait for about 15 seconds for her to reach me.
My main grievance is the that it feels co-op centric, though in this one you don't have to manage your partners inventory. There's no more dedicated knife button, which means you have to actually switch to the knife, which makes using it a pain compared to RE4/5. Contextual qte's aren't as fun or satisfying as shooting a villager in the knee cap, running up, and planting his face on the ground. There's something off about the controls, and I can't explain why. They're more loose, and less tight compared 4 and 5.
The demo seems to suggest their direction of the series even further, for example - you can hold infinite items now too? There's no item limit?
I mean, it's okay, but it didn't make me want to go through it multiple times like the RE5 demo. I'm not so sure about this game and after the demo, I may just wait for it to come to pc and wait for a Steam sale. What I got from the demo was an uninspired, generic, schizophrenic product that is pandering to a particular demographic. Does it want to be a horror game? Or a full on shooter? Or a high budget Hollywood Gaming fest? I don't know! Definitely not worthy of 60 dollars based on this demo unfortunately.
Maybe most of these problems are because it's the demo, but I'm not quite sure.
