Resident Evil: First Hour

[Reston]

I don't know if anyone noticed this but Machinima (the company behind the Mortal Kombat webseries) has started a new webseries called Resident Evil: First Hour.

I'll copy and paste the description,

Resident Evil: First Hour Episode 1 (Live Action Fan Film)

Episode 1 of Resident Evil: First Hour, a new web series exclusively on Machinima.com!

Series Description
Resident Evil: First Hour is a re-imagined prequel to Resident Evil 2, and follows Leon Kennedy as he and two other police officers find themselves trapped on a farm outside Raccoon City, fighting for their lives against an undead horde.

Episode 1 Synopsis
Fresh from the academy, Leon Kennedy turns up in Raccoon City only to make his first mistake and turn up at the wrong station. Unperturbed he makes a routine call to a farm outside Raccoon with his fellow officers, only to find something more horrific than he could ever imagine...

Directed by April Choi and Ross Peacock

Written by April Choi

CAST
LEON KENNEDY.......................James Whitwell
SGT. RICHARD CAMERON.......Jeff Mash
DEP. PHILIP JACKSON.............Kevin Millington

[alexdz]

Machinima didn't produce Mortal Kombat Legacy, just hosted it on their Youtube channel.

As for the video, I thought it was all right, nothing really remarkable about it.

[Scream]

Is it just me or do those officers look extremely gay whenever they look at Leon..

[Deus Flux]

The biggest complaint I have is that the master volume for the video is way too low. I had to crank my volume settings high as they would go and still had trouble hearing certain parts.

[Spera01]

As for the video, I thought it was all right, nothing really remarkable about it.

This.

It's cool that they're doing an RE webseries, but so far it doesn't seem like anything amazing... Who knows though, maybe they'll turn it around in the next few episodes.

[Det. Beauregard]

That was... weird.

I'm always interested to see someone's take on the RE franchise, but so much of that just seemed... wrong. Leon looks like a teenager, and he sounds like one, too. He may have been a bit green in RE2, but he never acted like that. His uniform looked ridiculous, like it was made from felt or something, and his hair looked all wrong. The scenario involving the farm was different and somewhat intriguing, but I felt that there was far too much RE4 influence (the shots in the car, the camera work when Leon was walking in the barn, the music from RE4, the whole farm scenario in general, etc.)

I loved the Ennerdale Street bit, though. Good to see that the people making the webseries are at least familiar with Raccoon's geography.

[PennyReporter]

This was ok I guess. Interested to find out how this story will develop.