55 - Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (PC 2012) - BEAT - With Resident Evil 2 Remake coming, I've been dabbling in RE games that I never gave a proper go in the past. REmake was a clunky, but enjoyable time. Resident Evil Zero was a co-op experience I hated and abandoned. Resident Evil 4 on PC was my first PC playthrough of it with a much better HD texture pack that was still a good time. And finally there is Operation Raccoon City, the shooter RE game that would be considered their worst attempt at that if Umbrella Corps didn't exist.
I remember playing this abit back on the 360 I think. I don't remember getting more than a couple levels in as it wasn't a very good shooter. I'm not even against Resident Evil doing action games for spinoffs, but this is one lacking game, especially singleplayer. The AI isn't good, the shooting is sloppy and I feel like the weapons are all abit shit. Really just stick with the machine guns the first chance you get. Making enemies bullet sponges is just obnoxious too. I kinda like this idea of a non-canon take on Resident Evil 2, with a specialized Umbrella unit doing stuff in the background while other events are happening, but it's again all very sloppy.
Ending sucks too. Sure, you get the option to kill Leon and Claire with a real lazy story point of fighting your teammates too in what I'm positive is just a multiplayer map, but it's so rushed, like they didn't have any real idea what to do other other than quickly kill them and end the game. There's some DLC as the Spec Ops, but I'm basically done. Only reason I got this game was because it was like 7 bucks or something, otherwise, just ignore it. It's not even worth the second look, which is a shame, as I think there was a chance this could be fun, but it needed a big overhaul to be any good.