Resident Evil RE: Verse (2022)
A quick recap here, this was meant to be the multiplayer companion RE game to Resident Evil Village. A similar strategy Capcom pulled with Resident Evil: Resistance to Resident Evil 3 Remake. There's a few major differences though. Resident Evil Village was the better game, it should be. Also some of the stuff they added for Village quickly made a lot of people forget about RE: Verse.
Yes I do plan on reviewing Shadows of Rose soon after a second playthrough. Back to this, unlike Resistance this was free for all style. Slightly more players just by one, six players. It felt like they wanted to cash in on stuff like Fortnite but it's notably down scaled from those games. Not to mention, this was meant to be an anniversary RE game but got delayed beyond the original date.
So it technically no longer an anniversary game. Yes they are planning to add stuff to the game. I might come back with a final review in the near future. I recently gotten all the achievements as of today in fact. Speaking of those, it felt Capcom wanted to gift them out rather make you really work for it like in Resistance's case.
I will say adding in Crossplay does makes matches even more repetitive at times. I only got to play that enabled through the entire achievement process. We don't even know if they plan on adding in more achievements or not. If they don't add any, I'm already done achievement hunting the game. Sadly, there's isn't much to discuss about the actual game.
The changes done from the beta are slightly notable I say. For me, the big improvement if you can call it that is both Tyrants are slightly tougher. In the beta, you could easily kill both Nemesis and Super X with an handgun. There isn't many characters as well as creatures in the game you play as either. It's a small but somewhat interesting roster for what it is.
Characters
Chris
Claire
Jill
Leon
Ada
Hunk
Creatures
Fat Moldy
Hunter Gamma
Jack Baker
Super X
Nemesis
I should point out Fat Moldy is the default creature choice if you didn't collect any viral canisters. It's random for the other two tiers which creature you get. Personally, I still think Tier 1 with Hunter Gamma & Jack Baker still the best overall. Of course, minus Fat Moldy most creatures do have an instant death move.
You may have to attempt it a few times within matches. Most matches lasts a little over five minutes thanks to editing I know that. I confess a few days I played off stream. During that period, I did get Chris in 1st place once. There isn't much actual strategies either. You can easily play without increasing or changing something else in some way among your play style.
I do like you can get more points as well as collect additional points from multiple challenges. Tutorial is surprisingly short but it does explain the game well enough to help get you started. Currently, there's no campaign of any kind in the game. Sadly, this seems to be the last RE game Xbox One is getting. Considering RE4 Remake isn't coming to the console.
Honestly, in that regard what a disappointing conclusion of an RE game library on a game console. I still need to buy dlc for RE: Verse on the side. Despite that, some animations I felt needs to be fixed. For example it's possible to counter someone's attack with another character's attack if done correctly. This also a major issue with instant death animations.
You could be a little while away, all of a sudden you see your character getting instantly killed. Hell they could seem to be a little off yet you still die. So that's something Capcom needs to fix. Also a huge disappointment there's no option to play this with teams. Now that alone would've went a long way if it were included from the start.
I felt stuff like that coming afterwards with not many people playing the game. It's almost like Capcom already gave up on the game even before it's release. Which further bags the question why save the game Capcom? It's also kinda weird we already given two very different Chris skins in the game too. In the beta, you had RE7 Chris model.
They changed that to an additional skin you can use points to get. Now his default skin is that of Village, a good idea. I will be honest, this doesn't even compare to stuff like Resident Evil: Resistance or Operation Raccoon City for that matter. I am so disappointed with the actual game. To make things worse, the real reason it got delayed was because the same team also working on Silent Hill f.
Yes you heard me correctly, the same team responsible for developing Resistance and RE: Verse. Who also ported RE2 Remake, RE3 Remake and RE7 to newer platforms is making an Silent Hill game. Thank you Dead by Daylight for causing the one thing in horror game I personally don't want to happen!!!
There's currently two maps, they are planning to add Village map to the game soon. It gets rather boring with so little maps. I felt I do better at Baker House map. If you end up in the top 3, you technically one of the winners of the matches. A lot of online multiplayer games doesn't do that concept. To me, the game felt largely as an after thought.
You want an unpopular opinion, well here it is. Dead Rising 4's Capcom Heroes mode is way better than this!!! RE: Verse is meant to be this cash in RE game. It clearly shows yet at the same time will never live up to our expectations even back when it originally got announced. The fact this is meant to come with Village is a major insult to us fans.
I don't recommend giving this a try, you will be more thankful if you don't. The game tries to sell the fans on something that just isn't what it's stated to be in the first place. RE: Verse is only a little fun for a little while before you quickly switch out games. Honestly, there's plenty of decent RE games including a few worthy spin off games way better than this!!!
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