Mine is still sitting in play.com's warehouse. Its not looking good.
Shopto delievered my copy at 8am sharp, 2 days before release!!!
And for the doubters;
Let me put it this way on veteran mode which isn't even the hardest one;
Im in the City hall. Ive got 2 clips left for my MP5, ive got 8 bullets left in my handgun. Ive just cleared a room of about 20 Licker's. Half my team has died in the process and have come back as zombies.
My last team mate is swarmed after bleeding from a shot by a Spec Op soldier who in turn, I slit his throat. Im trying to shoot the zombies away from her, but its in vain. She hits the floor and transforms.
My objective is on the other side of the main foyer. Im down to 27 MP5 bullets and my 8 bullets in my handgun. I sprint across the foyer and press circle to knock a group of zombies to the floor. Lightly holding L2 i quick-pull my handgun out and pop 8 zombies in the head. thats my sub weapon totally out of Ammunition, and now im back to the 27 rounds in my Mp5. I spray those rounds and manage to reach the dead Spec op soldier and take his Assault rifle and just fire into the crowd of 20+ zombies, when a Licker wraps its tongue around my neck and kills me. I had no health, no anti-virus spray and no herbs in the vicinity. I start the Licker section again and this time, I do it better and more effective.
I wrote that removing anything from resident evil in my mind and thinking of it as just a game with zombies. The game is awsome. Its frantic, the enemies are hard and relentless. Team AI isn't the best, but it sure as hell aint Sheva. Control scheme is great, its fluid, you can shoot, quick-pull your handgun, melee with your knife, mapped out buttons for nades and health/anti-virus, my special ability is on the triangle button, and I can auto-cover and dive for cover. Its fluid and it works. It feels like resident evil 4 but more mobile.
The fanboy in me screams more loudly now, because im in RACCOON CITY. Im hearing UBCS radio transmissions from Echo team, from teams at the city general, clocktower, the down town area, the RPD. Hunk is telling me to get my ass out of the underground laboratory and get to the surface, he's gotta go back for the G-virus sample.
Nicholai's story is fleshed out so much. Aside from killing Murphy seeker in the Pharmacy in RE3, he leaves half his team to die for the zombies. The other half he plugs in the head and leaves them in the security room. I delete all security room footage and all the freaking UBCS members rise up and try to rip me and my team apart! He is scheming, theres much more back story. And hell ive only done 2 missions!
The game is awsome. In my eyes, a game doesn't need award winning soundtrack, critically acclaimed controls, Uncharted level graphics to be an awsome game. Its entertaining, it draws me in, it makes my love for classic resident evil come back. And im loving every second of it. Easily 8 out of ten for me, because I've played tank controlled resident evil, and this is an improvement over RE4/5 controls (even though, 4 and 5 were crap resi games)
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