I want to say that my experience was just skewed due to playing alone, but that would be lying. For that alone am I giving this some leeway. This is a game that the devs made because they wished that more games like this existed. There’s absolutely nothing cynical about this game, no market they are trying to exploit for a quick dime. This is clearly an indie dev with no funding just trying to revive their favorite unique gaming experience. I know that struggling with the controls is one of Resident Evil‘s charms, but that game didn’t have wide open environments and limitless undead.
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Those that long for the year and a half when REO brought that online is a much smaller subsection. There are horror fans that long for the old school days of survival horror. This is a game meant to appeal to a very specific crowd. It would be pointless reviewing the mechanics and gameplay without this background. I’m mentioning all of this because Outbreak is a spiritual successor to Resident Evil: Outbreak. The most recent multiplayer Resident Evil game was Umbrella Corps, to which the kindest thing to do is quietly pretend it never happened. It came right before Resident Evil 4 was hotter than Natalie Dormer covered in magma, and the next 10 years of survival horror were locked into replicating that. Though ahead of its time in many ways, REO was unfortunately rooted in mechanics that would spell its doom. Resident Evil has long since moved away from tank controls and fixed cameras.
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It’s been 11 years since the last Resident Evil Outbreak release, so it’s pretty fair to say that the series is dead. Well I guess buy one, get one free is a nice way to develop games as well. It’s budget was cut so hard and release delayed so far, that the second game was actually mostly just levels cut from the first.
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Which is hilarious, because not even Capcom thought this game would do well.
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Because when you think multiplayer, you think of the PS2 network adapter.ĭespite the questionable platform exclusivity, there was a considerable fan following for Resident Evil Outbreak. Four years before Left 4 Dead popularized co-op survival horror and five years before Resident Evil 5 brought multiplayer into the main franchise, Resident Evil Outbreak had four players coming together to murder zombies across five different levels. For the rest of you, Resident Evil Outbreak is the often forgotten original multiplayer Resident Evil game. Here’s a fun experiment: show of hands, who remembers Resident Evil Outbreak? For all seven of you that do, kudos.