Capcom should do a Resident Evil: The Mercenaries as a full release. Everyone playable. Tons of maps to pick from. Enemies spanning the entire series. And of course, Hustleman being the guy hosting the shop were you purchase unlockable content.
Chris Redfield
Jill Valentine
Barry Burton
Rebecca Chambers
Brad Vickers (playable as a zombie mwahaha)
Albert Wesker
Billy Cohen
Claire Redfield
Leon Kennedy
Ada Wong
HUNK
Carlos Oliveira
Steve the worthless guy whose last name I don’t even remember
Jack Krauser
Sheva Alomar
Anybody I’m forgetting here? Maybe a few cross-series cameos?
Chris can do the neckbreaker. Shoot an enemy in the leg, then run around behind them and melee. He does a neckbreaker. If playing as Sheva, she will slit their throats.
I think you covered almost everyone, but if you’re tossing in someone from Re3 what about Nikolai? Or wouldn’t his weapon set be similar somewhat to Hunk ?
Edit: Include Mikhail. I forgot about him as well.
The fact that the single player experience is marred by some horribly implemented (and just generally horrible) AI, makes RE5 a huge disappointment for me. Capcom planned on having this as the last game with the RE4 gameplay mechanic so obviously they should have focused on brushing up any issues with it that were in RE4 (there really weren’t many). Instead they went for some halfway point between keeping the old system and trying in some misguided attempt to innovate. As a result they completely fucked up the single player experience essentially making co-op mandatory.
Maybe the assholes will try to sell us “DLC” that gives you back the attache case, make it so that your partner isn’t a liability, and actually makes it the game an improvement on RE4. Fucked again by Crapcom.
The single player would be just as great as RE4 had they not done one thing: add a partner that is a liability.
By adding this partner there’s a two significant problems.
She can die.
The inventory system is now FUBAR.
They should have just left the attache case alone from RE4, and made it so that Sheva can’t die IF they really wanted a partner to be in the game that badly.
I would have preferred they had not added in any partner at all, but making a partner with liability but then making it’s completely fucking retarded is just frustrating at fuck.
Honestly my dog could play Sheva better than the AI, it really is that bad.
I have been running through the Garden stage to farm money by killing lickers for the Lionheart gems. Each run through from the beginning of that stage to the elevator gets you $13,400 and takes only about 10 minutes.
Well…once the lickers attack she JUST FUCKING STANDS THERE!!! Even when she is set to ATTACK instead of COVER…she just STANDS THERE!!! ARRGGGGHHH!
That is really the only part of the game where she lets me down, for the rest of the game I treat her like a walking attache case and things are fine. Most of the time I don’t even give her a weapon…lol…
But for the lickers, I gave her the HYDRA shotgun and she would only fire about once every minute…so disappointing.
Other than that one aspect, which is only a problem in very specific parts of the game, I LOVE THIS GAME.
Co-op is where it’s at on this game (RE5). I know that isn’t really fair to single players, but I tell you true - get a friend. Me and a buddy of mine are loving this game so much, and a good reason for that is, we’re playing together!
Can’t say much about the single player though. All I hear is how bad Sheva’s AI is so I’m not likely to experience that by choice
See that’s how I’m treating her but there’s a couple problems…
First if you treat her like an attache case, you have to forget she’s mobile, like a pack mule…a fucking retarded pack mule that likes to stay as far away from you as possible and get itself molested by zombies.
Second if you give her a handgun she’ll get owned repeatedly, it’s a true test of patience to play on veteran with her considering she’s a pain in the backside if you give her shit because she’s never there when you need her or she’s a pain in the backside if you don’t give her shit because she just dies over and over.
The inclusion of partner AI and lack of the RE4 style inventory and purchasing system are the only flaws in the game. For me they’re large enough to mar the entire experience.
