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Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Wii)

from: Nintendo

November 30, 2007
The umbrella chronicles is an attempt to turn the resident evil franchise into a more action oriented game and while they have put the effort in, it falls short in most areas. The game follows the storylines of resident evil zero, 1 and 3 (in an attempt to get nostalgia-bias in it's reviews but apparantly avoiding the best entries in the series) in the style of a lightgun game. However, i would not reccommend this to any fans of lightgun games as it has an extremly slow pace (to pad out the length), and the gameplay seems more relied on luck than reflexes, as your weapons are severly underpowered, and zombies show little reaction to being shot, still continuing to attack you. It also has an awkward control scheme which only functions if you ... Read More: