I know a lot of you think that you don't like on-rails shooters, but it may be time for you to reconsider that generalization. Console on-rails shooters are really kicking ass of late. Gone are the arcade-style, quarter munching, poorly paced, shallow two hour on-rails blow outs of old, replaced with full length, well-thought out, deliberately paced, POV horror movie-style thrill rides of a new generation.
Would I be happier if RE:The Darkside Chronicles jumped off the rails and played more like RE4? Of course I would. I wish that every game with zombies in it played like RE4. I think that RE4 has the best engine ever for "keep away" style 3D shooters. That said, if I have to play a game like that which doesn't control like RE4, it might as well be one I can comfortably play with friends on the couch, one hand in a bag of pretzels, the other aiming my magnum at a gaggle of Gamma Hunters.
Yep, the Gamma Hunters from Resident Evil 3 are back in Darkside Chronicles, but that's all I'm going to tell you right now. You're going to have to hit the jump if you want the rest of RE:DC's new scenario spoiled, or at least, the first twenty minutes of it via off-screen video. Hit the jump for the two-part vid series, curiosity of Wiitalia.
[Note: This is a slightly longer look at this new scenario than the one Hamza showed you a couple days ago, most of which has already been removed by Capcom.
Contest:
10:00 PM on 09.26.2009
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I would of liked them too of worked harder on those buckets and baskets of food...the ones that have COMPLETELY flat food...the baskets with 3D food look nice, but the flat food looks so dated. And I don't like how all the zombies on the ground have red hats in that one area! XD
Well, game looks great, besides those little flaws...
By the way, check out Dead Space: Extraction if you're in the mood for an on-rail shooter. From what I played of it at my local Best Buy store its great. The graphics are surprisingly very good and the gameplay and story rock. I'll be picking up the game next week.
Hopefully Darkside Chronicles' turns out to be as good as it looks.
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Well with its new waggle wand, I'm sure the PS3 will be getting lots of on-rails shooters. Seeing as how you can't move unless you have a normal controller in the other hand and I think people will become tired on that, really quickly. So a on-rails shooter would be the perfect solution to that problem!
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