Resident Evil 2: Platinum
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Video Game Reviews of Resident Evil 2: Platinum
Customer Review: Hella Scary And Fun>>>3
Summary: 5 Stars
Resident Evil 2 Is The Best Horror Action Game. This Was One Of The First Games I Played In The Whole Resident Evil Collection, I Must Say This Game Meets All Req. For Action..>>5Customer Review: It is my most favorite game.
Summary: 4 Stars
Actually speaking, I never find a more interesting game like this. It is not so difficult as the R.E1 but still you have to use your mind to find the solutions to the puzzles. What's more, the game consists of two stories and they take place at the same time. You must finish the first one before the second part. No other game has such features.Customer Review: Bad bad bad bad bad
Summary: 1 Stars
This game is an unbearably horrible version of Resident Evil 2. My computer is an excellent one and even has a Geforce 3, yet the game either cannot recognize my card or just has bad graphics. It looks like the quality of graphics from the first 3D dos games like Wolfenstine 3D (Not return to Castle Wolfenstine). It only gives me a resolution of something like 320x480. It looks horribly crummy. ...Customer Review: Why Did I Waste My Time and Money?
Summary: 1 Stars
This game is horrible. At the release of the movie I thought it would be fun to play the game series, then go see the flick. I heard friends rave about this game, so I purchased it and couldn't get myself through the first ten minutes. The camera angle is annoying, the controls clumsy, the gameplay corny. The graphics left this veteran gamer with a sour taste. However, if you like zombies and don't mind its serious flaws, give this one a try. Maybe you'll feel better about it than I did.Customer Review: Not Unlike A sip of Soda after a desert...
Summary: 4 Stars
...damn good but with just a little too much thickness to go down right.Resident Evil 2 is a console game. Its' move to PC is...questionable. But while it may not be the next generation of gaming goodness, it allows all the PC owners of the world a chance to immerse themselves in one of the greatest console games of all time.
RE 2 is the second and perhaps most epic of the RE games. Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield are likeable and active charactors who, with time and...well...more time, will grow on you. The cast of secondary charactors and monsters are both creepy and delightful. Best of all, the weapons are good enough to make Duke Nukem drool a little. Pack this into a survival horror package, where one must carefully husband ammo and always be prepared and you have a game with a perfect mix of tension and action.
But it is not a computer game. To make that tension thick the designers chose to create save points and sometimes painful camera angles. It is too easy to run through the game if you can save just before every door. Instead, you'll fling the controller across the room because you got jumped by a zombie dog and hashed to shreds, leaving you farther back in the game. It just makes keeping alive a little more important (as a note, though the "print cartriges" required to save seem scarce, they are really almost too common)
Others may come to hate the limited space one has to carry items. Any good first person shooter allows a much larger range of munitions and keys to hold at once. In RE 2, you get about 8 slots. That means if you carry the beloved pistol for zombie shooting, its ammo, and the life saving shotgun for anything else (with its ammo) you have 4 slots to carry any health, keys, or back-up weaponry you want or find. Trust me, its really scary to bring a knife to a gun fight, or a pistol to a rocket fight. Much of the puzzle system runs along these lines. Some require you to place 4 or more pieces into a key hole. But you can't just find them and take them there, you have to carry other things. This means you will have to find them, place them in the item box ( a magical, multi-locational box that will hold everything you own and be reached in many places) then go find the others before finally gathering them all and opening the puzzle. Sound tedious? Strangley the game manages to keep you plenty busy in between so it never really becomes too much of a problem.
As for the bad camera angles, they had to stay in the game. To build in a moving camera would have destroyed the game. I tell you now, there is something creepy about hearing the patter of zombie feet, know they are out there, and just not know where they are. If not for the useable, venerable auto-aim function, I too would have screamed every time I ran headlong into the arms of a zombie. As it is...The unseen Giant spider is my personal bane.
So in conclusion, at 20 dollars, you are buying a game beloved by Play Station and Dreamcat owners the world across. But it will drive the hardcore PC player insane. But even if this hypothetical PC owner can somehow make his way past the glareing downfalls of this game, he will enter the World of Resident Evil, a land where the dead walk and bullets are scarce.