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Have you played the Resident Evil demo?
Free demo downloads are a welcome, much-needed addition to the 3DS world, and Resident Evil: Revelations is a great, high-profile debut for the feature. I haven’t played a Resident Evil title since the days of horrible d-pad controls, so this was a pleasant surprise for me. I was very impressed with the look and sound […]
Richard·January 22, 2012
Free demo downloads are a welcome, much-needed addition to the 3DS world, and Resident Evil: Revelations is a great, high-profile debut for the feature.
I haven’t played a Resident Evil title since the days of horrible d-pad controls, so this was a pleasant surprise for me. I was very impressed with the look and sound of the game (loved the 3D fog effect) and the gameplay itself felt smooth. Good, creepy fun!
If you’ve downloaded and played the demo, what did you think?
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Not yet, I have it been busy playing Nano Assault.
Very crisp visuals. I think this demo is very promising for graphical masterpieces yet to come to the handheld.
Yep, played through the normal, and hell modes of difficulty. It's pretty cool! Though Res Evil games always seem to control weird to me. No matter what controller, console, or platform they are for. lol Just takes some getting used to.
Yep. For me, it feels like Resident Evil 4 since I never played Resident Evil 5. I do like the way how they give you the free space to roam around looking for items like green herbs and Handgun Ammo and stuff like that and also checking areas to just look around. Then there's the FPS, I will admit, I LITERALLY SUCK!! when it comes to FPS games but this feels a bit like it's 2nd nature to me. I think I can like this game if I sit down more and play this for a long while.
The demo confirms the fact that I will be picking the game up this February. I love the visuals and can't wait to see how the game pans out.
Played it and really enjoyed it. I just wish I could aim and move at the same time!!!! Am I doing something wrong or is this just not an option?
"I haven't played a Resident Evil title since the days of horrible d-pad controls"
So that means you haven't played 4 or REmake. Get out.
whataboutki: Apparently if you hold L, you can move while aiming. You can do this with or without gyro controls.
@ Gojiguy:
Yep–guilty. I'm not a huge fan of horror games, so I did let those well-reviewed entries slide past me. Besides, I was completely addicted to World of Warcraft when RE 4 came out. 🙂
I couldn't play it. I got about 10 minutes in and ran out of bullets because I am terrible at FPS games, and completely missed the enemy for well over half of my shots. The knife worked for a bit, but I just got overwhelmed.
Monkat, turn on third person aiming
It's fun, and it's very creepy, but… I'll wait until it's *not* $50.
It controls way better than RE5. Love it.
Yeh. I hate the controls without the circle pad pro so i'll pick that up and then try again.
@whataboutki: Circle pad pro is here to the rescue 😉
To answer the main question, I am a big big fan of oldskool RE, and played this one and all I can say is WOW, this game is AWESOME!!! Buying it this week (I'm European, here game comes 27th jan)!
I got too scared.
Seriously, this has the opportunity to be pretty awesome. I just wish the movement/aiming controls were more like Metroid Prime Hunters.
I did and the shooting enemies part sucked, also I'm not a big fan of this genre so I'll pass (besides I can't sleep at nights)…
I did, and I beat both normal and hell mode. It's really fun! I want to get it, but I don't know when, or even if I will. I am used to the RE4 port for the Wii and aiming with the remote, so it took a short while to get used to the aiming in this one.
I was showing the demo to my cousin, because he likes watching me play games, and it was my time playing hell mode, I got to the elevator and said "So this is basically the end of the combat for the demo," opened the doors, and the three whatever-they-are popped out, scaring the crap out of me! I panicked, but killed 'em all easily.
And speaking of demos, I really hope a Luigi's Mansion 2 demo comes out some time! I really wanna play that.
Just finished playing through it. Felt like a return to the old school awesomeness (and creepiness!!) that the series started off with. I'm still VERY interested in titles like RE: ORC (REALLY hoping this gets a Wii U port!!) or the trailer for RE 6, but this just felt right and more natural for this game/genre.
The 3D really deepened the experience here too. Played with the 3D effect enhancer on very high and my slider turned all the way up. I will say though, that this game suffers from the same problem LoZ: OoT had for me with a ghost image/artifact effect on the screen.
Definitely want to get this one!!