Resident Evil: Impressions Chronicles

by JC Fletcher on May 25th 2007 5:35PM

GayGamer recently got a chance to play Capcom's Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, which pulls old RE stories from their graves and reanimates them as segments of a rail shooter. Unlike previous Resident Evil spinoff games, this one seems like it's going to be okay.

They were especially pleased with the treatment of the story-- since the Resident Evil series has traditionally had a good story element, this game has a leg up over other zombie-filled shooting games. Nobody will have to suffer like G did.

The Nunchuk use also received praise-- being able to look around freely with the joystick just lets you do more in each area, allowing the players to search for hidden items, aim shots more accurately, and choose paths.

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Reader Comments (3)

I'm really excited for this game, but was really hoping on co-op play ala House of the Dead. Is it safe to assume that with the Nunchuk-pan left and right feature, multiplayer is a no-go? Unless it's split screen, which probably wouldn't be ideal.

A simple way to do co-op with this game (if it's not built-in) is to just give one person the nunchuk... one looks.. the other shoots. Trade off between levels. Of course, the damn cord is so short you'll have to be pretty close to each other. But hey, it's an idea if you want to dick around. I actually did this with Twilight Princess. It was interesting, to say the least.

when you say "on the rails shooter", does that mean that its like Rayman:RR where you get dragged along through the level and have no control over movement?