Resident Evil 2: Platinum
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Video Game Reviews of Resident Evil 2: Platinum
Customer Review: DON'T WASTE; YOUR MONEY
Summary: 1 Stars
GRAPHICIS ARE TERRIBLE, PSX VERSION DOES IT ALL.Customer Review: Incredibly frustraing!
Summary: 1 Stars
This game, while a decent port from the PS version as far as a port goes, is very frustrating. First it's difficult to learn and play, and the graphics sometimes makes gameplay even more difficult. (BTW, it's not really scary.) The most annoying thing for PC gamers is you can't save the game at any point. Instead there are only a limited number of occasions where you can save your progress. The novelty factor is no longer than as there was with the original RE (which was not as novel as the truly original Alone in the Dark).Customer Review: Pros, cons, zombies....
Summary: 3 Stars
The "Resident Evil" games--and perhaps all games in the "survival horror" genre--are about atmosphere. And in that regard, "Resident Evil 2" delivers. The graphics won't wow a hardcore PC gamer, nor will the sound, although the music is effectively eerie. This game offers a some good shocks and good-if-stilted cutscenes, intermixed with some so-so action.The minuses are serious but not show-stoppers. The graphics and sound effects show the limitations of the consoles they were designed for--no Quake III here, nor even Blood 2, for that matter. (Resident Evil 3 actually goes a good bit farther compensating for this by offering much higher resolutions.)
Saving a game can only be done at a typewriter, and only using a ribbon, of which there are a limited number. I guess that means that if you haven't played through the game by the time you used that last ribbon, you're going to have a =really= long last session. Save game limitations drive PC players nuts, and is compounded here.
The camera angles, while usually quite effective in the atmosphere, also make it, em, challenging, to see what you're doing about a third of the time when you're zombie slaying.
The only other major minus is the dubious pseudo-adventure game puzzles. Find this key, find that key, hook that wheel to that valve, etc. It's not as big a minus as it might seem, because sometimes these slow periods lull you into a false sense of security and set you up for the next good shock. Other times, they're just teidous.
Overall, this game has won me over with its spooky atmosphere and ocassional shocks, but I couldn't call it a classic, unfortunately, at least not this version.
Customer Review: Do really good horror movies scare you?
Summary: 4 Stars
Yes, but you know it's just a movie. Resident Evil is an interactive horror movie with cinematic sequences, an involved plot, and ugly monsters jumping out at you.Leon Kennedy is a rookie cop, first day on the job. Claire Redfield is looking for her brother, Chris. Sherry is a little girl staying at the police station waiting for her parents, and Ada Wong is a mysterious woman with a hidden agenda. The four survivors of a city infected by a zombie virus are all under your control at some point, and you must get all four through a zombie-infested police station, and then through the sewers to the Unbrella plant which made the virus and has the cure.
The gameplay is very strange, although the string of clones following in its wake has brought the engine mainstream. In each area, there are stationary videocameras which you the player watch. The cameras automatically change as you move away from one and closer to another. The background never moves except during cutscenes. Basically, you're moving through photographs of the rooms you're in. The game limits how many items you can carry, and you can only save with an Ink Ribbon. There are a few laying around but many are hidden. When you are injured, your character limps....
Customer Review: Love the game, but...
Summary: 2 Stars
I originally played this game on the Sony Playstation, and was hooked instantly. I got really caught up in the game while staying at my friend's house for a couple days. When it was time to go home, I was most of the way through the game, and really wanted to know how it ended, but unfortunately I didn't own a Playstation. Eventually I bought it for the PC, thinking it would be even better on the PC, as everything is better on the PC. But it wasn't. I have a 32 MB video card, and a system far superior to what it's looking for. But the graphics were large and blocky, completely losing any beauty to the game, and the cutscenes kept locking up on me initially. But I stuck with it and beat the game, because I wanted to know how it ends. I love the game, and I love the series, but don't buy this game for the PC. I was pretty disappointed. I hope Res Evil 3 is better for the PC.