OSWALD SPENCER RESIDENT EVIL SERIES

Hideo Kojima has gone on record to say he didn't plan it out all in advance, George Lucas-style.

These were interwoven to form a larger mythology.

OSWALD SPENCER RESIDENT EVIL SERIES

Like Resi, it was a series born of individually conceived, separately told narratives. It's like Ubisoft deciding the Templars are a bit boring and those Assassins should battle little green men instead.Д¬ompare Metal Gear Solid, another stalwart of late nineties, story-driven action adventure gaming. Putting aside Leon in the lead role, Ada turning up unannounced and a cameo from Wesker, the game could be part of a separate series altogether. Resi 4's story had squat all to do with the rest of the series up to that point. What?ДЄnd what was Leon's motivation for being there? To save the President's daughter. An army of quasi-intelligent parasite-infected villagers who were so savage they couldn't even use firearms. An Emperor Palpatine clone with a giant scorpion tail. That pleasure was snatched from me, suddenly and unceremoniously, in a single cut-scene.ДЄnd what were the series' iconic zombies and devastating viruses replaced by? A mutating midget in a pirate hat. I'd spent the best part of eight years watching Umbrella get built up to the point where I was dying to take them down. This is one of the biggest reasons I hate Resident Evil 4.

Then Shinji Mikami stepped in and ruined it all with three simple words: 'Umbrella was finished.' What do you call survival horror when it's not survival horror? Resident Evil 4. Spencer a battle against a super-powered Albert Wesker maybe even a revelation about the mysterious shadow company he'd joined, which I'd long suspected could emerge as the series' new Big Bad Biocorp. The iteration which made the most sense to me followed on from the excellent Code: Veronica - a fateful charge into enemy territory at Umbrella's European HQ answers to the questions swirling around Oswald E. Kennedy battling a monster with a hooked hand in a haunted house. And so the first iteration splintered off to become Devil may Cry, while another stab saw a new-look Leon S. It was time for a change.Д¬apcom knew this. By the time Resident Evil Zero arrived in 2003, all that clunky wandering around creepy-but-static mansions, sipping coffee through door opening animations and battling the fixed camera had started to infect the game's fun factor. I'm a huge fan of survival horror, but even I agree that Resi needed a kick up the arse. Something unfamiliar, strange and awkward, which bears only a passing resemblance to what's gone before. The end result? All too often, the core elements which should be retained and built upon are abandoned and the game becomes something else entirely. A formula starts to feel old, so Leading Publisher X promises a dramatic reinvention for Huge IP Y with a focus on Flavour Of The Month Game Feature Z. Like any gamer, if we loved the previous instalment we really want more of the same, but better. Plus, most of all, the elements which define it as that type of game. Games critics try to approach sequels with an understanding of what the franchise in question does well and where it could improve. They're what gives the game its identity. The conventions of the franchise are usually well established they're familiar, comforting even. The thing about sequels is you know what to expect.

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