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Basics
“Suspension of disbelief” was never more of a problem with this video game. Leon is somehow
now highly trusted by the president. He is the sole person he trusts to dispatch to a remote
town in Spain to rescue his beloved daughter, Ashley. If you haven’t guessed it yet, the plot is
pretty thin here. Playing as Leon in this third person shooter you ruthlessly slash and shoot your
way through countless bloodthirsty killers to rescue ungrateful Ashley and run into a few interesting
old friends along the way.
Opinions
Am I famous for anything else other than shooting off my big fat cursing mouth? But I digress. I hate
mindless first person shooters. This video game is a mindless first person shooter. This is cruelty, karma
for all the many, many, many countless bad things I have done in my life. Regardless of this game being
brainless, it was still incredibly fun to play, and I was jumping up and down going nuts with friends cursing
and having a grand time of it all. El Largo among other nerdy things had become a running gag with some
friends (I was so drunk and laughing so hard I had a tough time with my first encounter with the beast).
All in all, this video game is damn fun to play. But if it was not a Resident Evil game and did not have Leon,
I would not have played it. This is a step down for Resident evil. A big step down. Resident Evil used to
be horror camp in video game format, it was wildly original and wickedly fun. Oh, how the mighty hath fallen.
An innocent theory
Perhaps the true reason why Leon alone was trusted with the job of bringing back the president daughter…
was because the president didn’t want her back at all! Think about it. The most powerful man in the world
sending a lone solider to bring back his precious cargo. NOT LIKELY, people. NOT LIKELY. The president
hates his daughter (with good reason) and was very excited when she was kidnapped. When he first
received notice of her disappearance he wanted to find the man who did it, shake his hand and give him a
metal. To save face, he sent one man to bring her back. He probably took one look at Leon’s pretty face
and said, “Yeh…the pretty boy wont survive." Unfortunately for him, however, Leon was more competent
than he looks.
And unforgivable…
Ever since the Matrix came out all dull boring derivative action movies squeeze in some slo-mo and bullet
time scenes to compensate for the boringness in hopes to emulate the hardcore-awesome that is that movie.
This video game tried for the same. Subjecting poor Leon, and poor Resident Evil, to such low, ugly,
embarrassing gimmickry is a sin. A sin!
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