14 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 76.7 hrs on record (15.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: Feb 25, 2015 @ 2:51am

Ok first and formost this is the most fun Ive had in a RE title in years. RE6 to me was nothing short of a absolute disaster. And RE5 was just gears of evil. While I did enjoy Rev 1 it had its moments that had me just annoyed and frustrated (on both 3DS and PC) but I LOVED raid mode.

That said...

I have been Loving REV 2.

So far Ive only completed Clairs story and will knock out Barry's soon, but I had to dive into Raid mode and to my surprise I loved it even more.

So Campaign is a kind of shout out to RE roots with a shot and being atmosphirc and scary. Now while the scares are really just jump scares it has a very Evil Within feel to it and Im fine with that. Now as I played threw the story I did get a few of these framerate drops but they were few and far between eachother and by no means made the game unplayable. As for the AI its back with all of its stand in everything stupid glory. I found doing the game on survival Difficulty was borderline impossible due to the AI having their own Health this time around and being very adverse to shooting a freaking gun. That said I dumped down the difficulty and just sat back and steam rolled it to a pleasent start to a decent story looking foward to the rest of the episodes.

Now Raid mode

It is sooooooo much better than Rev 1 first and formost the Maps. They dont just throw you into locals from the single player game no they toss you into locations spanning from from what ive seen so far RE2-6 which I love. The character progression is seperate this time around and the skill tress add for a nice addition to leveling up (btw Hunk SOOOO OP) the fighting is far more fluid and while the aiming took a bit to get used to Im pleasently happy with it as I havnt had any issues with getting Head shots. The Gun customazation has been awesome. Instead of just basic pierce and knock down you can add elementle affinities to your weapons (all the old stuff is still around) which again adds to a deeper custimization than the first.

All in all im 100% happy with my purchase and cant wait for Online to come out in 4 weeks so I can tackle raid mode with my friends. The AI is trash but that has been the case for years now nothing new to the RE series there (ashley was the only "decent" ai) Also Ill say the facial graphics leave something to be desired as when they talk their mouths just kinda flop all over.

So if you were a fan of REV 1 id recommend this absolutly. If you only enjoyed Raid mode with friends id say wait till all 4 episodes are out up to you but for sure pick this one up.
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