Resident Evil 6

I have the game and I've played through the first of the three campaigns offered at the start of the game. I played it on Veteran difficulty and I have to say, I simply disagree with the review. While it is very different from RE4 and RE5 in that it focuses on traditional zombies and the claustraphobic settings offered in the past. There are some game mechanics used here which are known to irritate gamers. They are quick time events, sprinting and cover mechanics, and cheesy story. But if you look back at different RE sequels of the past you'll see that quick time events were actually present in Resident Evil 4, the controls are pretty much the same. In fact you get unusually high number of controls to adjust such as acceleration and speed of croshair, camera movement, etc.

I do see some things I do not like in this game and they are actually not what the review bases its criticism on most of the time. The graphics are not as good as before. Framerate stutters, the levels are dark, textures are bland in number of areas. I am not a fan of the sprint ability. In some places it resembles Left 4 Dead because of the speed of movement, and the huge obese zombie. Basically this game is not as bad as described.

Basically I am saying this game is not bad at all. They tried to return to what it was like before RE4, but had to include modern elements of RE4 and RE5, plus some. So it ended with this mix which I guess is easily mistaken for identity crisis.