Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles ReviewBy Decripitone
Story
The story to Umbrella chronicles starts off from Resident Evil Zero. Which talks about how the T-Virus comes into being. From then on it leads into the future series. The story is great, it's pretty much just a rush from resident evil 0,1, and so on, but it also has unlockable back story for characters you wouldn't expect they would write a backstory for. In the end the story is a bit rushed, but yet again, it's a rail shooter, you want the story to get to the point, the point of your cross hair... The story is well put together for it being rushed through the way a rail shooter would. I like it.
Controls
The controls.. wow the controls. If there are any programmers out there making a rail shooter for the Wii. This is the game that you want reference for your controls. Everything is beautiful, shaking the Wiimote to reload makes moments in the game all that more exciting. Throwing grenades, even cutting with your knife, just give you an over all great and fun experience. Me and a friend of mine were playing for hours, we were just killing zombie after zombie, hunter after hunter, bat after bat. the thing is the controls are so smooth and understanding of what you want to do. I can't help by saying I love the controls. Only one thing I've not done yet, and that's play with the Wii Zapper. I'm sure it's also a great experience. but if you want the awesome gameplay of a rail shooter but with the controls of a console. Then it's exactly what you were dreaming about. It's perfect.
Sounds / Graphics
Sounds of the games are very well recorded, if you were add this game to some surround sound speakers, then you have yourself a zombie in your front room or bedroom or where ever you game. Anyway the sound is great, you feel like you're in there blastin' zombies, and that's what it's all about.
Graphics of the game are decent. you still gotta love blowing up zombie heads as they scramble towards you. At times the graphics shine, like when you see a lit flame on some candles or just the textures in the terrain. minus a few cars, but that's alright. You still get a good experience, who cares if it doesn't look like house of the dead 4. It's not house of the dead, it's ****ing RE baby, RE...
Gameplay
This is where the game shines, even though it's a rail shooter you still feel like you're in the game. Like when you're bombarded by bats, or slimy things, or when you're attacked by a meat craving zombies. The game play is just straight awesome. It gets very exciting at times when you're slashing away at weaker things but at the same time blasting away at the much more beefy enemy behind the weaker enemies. The game play is just a roller coaster ride of pure excitement everything pops out at the right time to scare the crap out of you. I'm sure you'll get used to it after playing it through a couple times with your buddies. This game is definitely going to be played years to come even if you've played it 20 times through or more. It's a great experience, and i think you should all give it a try. rent it buy it whatever you need to do to get your fill in on the game. Grab a buddy and sit down. Experience the gameplay, experience zombie blasting.
Final thoughts / Rating
After a very long while of playing this game, I've come to the conclusion that Wii is looking a lot better on the market. at first i was scared, because the lack of online and the lack of good 3rd party games, but this game brought something new into my life, something great. Zombie Killing, Evil Monkey killing, and such other things that I really don't want spoiling the game for you. The monkey was kinda far. I love every aspect to this game. Even if at times you just want the main characters to shut up and do their job, or question why they're talking so casually when rabid dogs are trying to maul their faces off, who knows. I just know that blowing up, shooting up, blowing up, and cutting up enemies makes up for that completely. I can say that I give this game a....!!!!! 9.5 out of 100 er i mean 10.
Contra 4 ReviewBy Decripitone
Story
The story to contra.. the story to contra... hmm whats to say. it's a run and gun game. so the story is a bit i dunno not good. You have your hand full of hard asses, and a whole alien empire invading earth.. again. there you have it. the story.
I know it's not a Contra 4 clip. it's just funny.
Controls
hmm the controls got me bad. i'm used to the whole B to shoot A to jump. Well in this game they have Y to shoot, B to jump, A to toss a weapon you don't want. which is strange. Nobody wants to get rid of their weapons. Finally X to use your grappling hook. This is a good thing, you get to fly across both screens of your DS like you hadn't before, it's a fun little extra they added, i love it. over all the controls take a bit to get used to if you're an old time Contra gamer like myself. They don't have an option to change them, maybe I'm not looking hard enough. You give it a try. Besides that after the whole controller relearning system. you can get back to the run and gunning glory that Contra truly is.
Sounds / Graphics
The sounds to the game are some of the most beautiful sounds a DS can produce, like when you beat the stage you get a updated guitar riff version of the original level passed song, it's freakin' awesome. Also the lvls are quite intense, the added music just puts you into the contra killing spree mood. lets see how long we can live!
wow the graphics for this game are amazing. it's the whole side scrolling pixle deal, which is some of the best i've seen. then it does this whole 3D transition, i think they could of done a little better on that, maybe a bit more to the 3d textures. but besides that, the games graphics are just plain out awesome. you'd think you were playing a totally different game. but no. you're playing a brand spanking new contra. and you gotta love it.
Gameplay
okay let me tell you about this game play now. It's amazing I love it. It's as hard as ever, which i'm a fan of with the contra games. anyway, it's a difficult task to get anywhere into any contras, but if you have, then this game will fit your fancy. I've said it 3 times now, the game is a a run and gun. Just blast your way through and don't leave any of them alive. kill them all or you're next. ...if you don't dodge correctly. There is one thing that kills me about the game. for multiplayer, you gotta have 2 Contra 4 DS cartridges. I was saddened that it couldn't be played over download play. but that's alright, i'm sure the game would be extremely shortened with it. i'm actually going out to get a second copy with my bro so we can kill this game. I love the game play it's damn beautiful. If you're going to rent this, don't. Just buy it and make sure you have a dedicated Contra partner.
Final thoughts / Rating
The game is very fun, the story is a bit crappy, but it's a contra game. I didn't expect much, but I dunno it seems like they didn't even try to hide the fact that there is no story behind it. anyway the graphics are damn good I love em'. The game play keeps me going back to the game all day. I'm actually playing it as I write this review. everything is fun it really has you sit down and concentrate on being faster then the enemy themselves. I love that and I am a happy person. This game is a perfect sequel to the ever growing contra saga. Lets just hope Konami doesn't have us buy games that bare the contra name in it, but totally suck ...again. I rate this gaameeee!!!!! 8.5 out of 10
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