New UC screenshots

[Dot50Cal]

Gamespot has some new screenshots from Umbrella Chronicles. They aren't very exciting but they do show off some more of the menu's in the game.

Umbrella Chronicles Screenshots

I've also posted the video I spoke about earlier. Those of you who downloaded it already from Gamespot and the like should just ignore this one, its just for completion purposes.

http://www.the-horror.com/download.p... Trailer 3.mp4

It seems that Capcom decided not to show the long rumored new Resident Evil 5 trailer at the Tokyo Game Show, which was a pretty big disappointment. Hopefully they wont wait until another trade show to release it.

[BLSR1]

Menus, JOY!

[News Bot]

Kotaku also posted their impressions (for the third time) of UC.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/tgs07/resident-evil-the-umbrella-chronicles-handson-again-303230.php

There's something about Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles that just makes it difficult to get excited about. I think the most glaring problem is this: it's not fun. There's little sense of danger or feedback from the game that you're unloading hundreds of rounds on hordes of the undead. It's very sterile.

In short: It fails. Hard.

I really hope this gets ported or something. I'm not shelling out on a Wii for this one piece of shit. Story details or not.

[Ridley W. Hayes]

Along the way, we unceremoniously shot stuff, often confusing one another's reticles for the other's, resulting in loads of wasted effort. The same was true for the last minute evade moves, ones that require rapid button presses or really frantic Wii-mote waving. Eventually, we realized we were standing on the wrong side of the screen in relation to our players and switched spots. It kind of helped.

That's quite dumb.

Anyway, I must wait to play it to say something of value about it, but for now it catch my atention.

[BLSR1]

Kotaku also posted their impressions (for the third time) of UC.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/tgs07/resident-evil-the-umbrella-chronicles-handson-again-303230.php

In short: It fails. Hard.

I really hope this gets ported or something. I'm not shelling out on a Wii for this one piece of shit. Story details or not.

I'm sorry, but every day it seems more and more likely you work for sony.

[Stu]

It seems that Capcom decided not to show the long rumored new Resident Evil 5 trailer at the Tokyo Game Show, which was a pretty big disappointment. Hopefully they wont wait until another trade show to release it.

I'm not sure where anything about showing off a new RE5 trailer at TGS came from, but it's loooooong been confirmed, and confirmed, and confirmed again by the guys at Capcom that right now they're more interested in pushing stuff that's closer to release. We won't be seeing RE5 again for sometime now.

In short: It fails. Hard.

Are you saying in short, that review thinks it fails...or are you just saying (once again) that it fails "hard"?

[News Bot]

I'm sorry, but every day it seems more and more likely you work for sony.

Me hating on one game somehow makes me completely Sony-biased how? It's no secret that I detest the Wii for everything it is and stands for, aswell as 99% of the games on it (lol mini-games). But that doesn't mean I hate Nintendo as a whole. They've just dissapointed me the past..two generations. It's more or less a $200 gimmick. Umbrella Chronicles is a different story though, it's just complete bullshit through and through. If you're going to make a game supposedly so important to the story, don't fuck with it to the point where you just rip the gameplay from House of the Dead, hire some shitty voice actors who sound worse than the original RE1 acting, reuse everything from previous games, insert cutscenes that have absolutely nothing to do with the series canon and slap a big "IF YOU DON'T PLAY THIS YOU WON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT THE SERIES" sticker on it. They're mostly not even using new music, so far almost everything has just been a bunch of rehashes (bad ones at that) and remixes of previous songs (although the remix of the RE2 track in the latest trailer is pretty cool). Umbrella Chronicles just looks more and more like a cheap cash-in. Capcom are going to bullshit their way into getting more money. Which has been their buisness strategy since RE4.

Are you saying in short, that review thinks it fails...or are you just saying (once again) that it fails "hard"?

Both. For the lulz.

[Stu]

don't fuck with it to the point where you just rip the gameplay from House of the Dead,

I wasn't aware that House Of The Dead was the very first ever on-rails shooter! Thanks for the nugget of knowledge!

hire some shitty voice actors who sound worse than the original RE1 acting

That's just your (wrong) opinion though, just over-exagerating something to get your point across. They are nothing like as bad as they were in the first game, and you know this. Resi has always had piss poor voice acting...why change now?

insert cutscenes that have absolutely nothing to do with the series canon

So you've seen all the cutscenes available in the game, and so can comment on their relevance?

Umbrella Chronicles just looks more and more like a cheap cash-in. Capcom are going to bullshit their way into getting more money. Which has been their buisness strategy since RE4.

Who'd have thought it eh? A business wanting to make money!!

Both. For the lulz.

Well then i'll be up front about it. You're UC bashing is getting really fucking tiresome now. Sure you don't like the game, fair enough, but don't bash it for the sake of it, just making shit up as you go along. Especially when it's for something as downright petty, and as irrelevant to the game as possible like the quality of a jpeg image!

[News Bot]

So you've seen all the cutscenes available in the game, and so can comment on their relevance?

I'm pretty sure Jill and Chris were not working together in the mansion. Nor was Carlos with Jill for 99% of RE3. Nor did Jill get a zombie between her legs. And Billy has Barry's magnum how?

Who'd have thought it eh? A business wanting to make money!!

A buisness wanting to make money by bullshitting it's fans into buying the game. Excellent practice.

Well then i'll be up front about it. You're UC bashing is getting really fucking tiresome now. Sure you don't like the game, fair enough, but don't bash it for the sake of it, just making shit up as you go along. Especially when it's for something as downright petty, and as irrelevant to the game as possible like the quality of a jpeg image!

My UC bashing is my personal opinion. You don't have to take it to heart. If you're going to bitch about my..bitching, atleast try and counter it with something relevant. Atleast when I do it, I do it with a genuine reason/complaint.

like the quality of a jpeg image

That was referring to the actual face model, not the image as a whole.

[BLSR1]

I want to play UC because I LOVE house of the dead.
I am a a big resident evil fan
I want to play it even if it isn't canon.


You seem to miss the point of playing videogames, TO HAVE FUN. Not to be like "ZOMG Jill and Chris together! I must go online and ruin the game for everyone else!!"

UC is a light game that is supposed to turn the monsters, locations, and characters we love into one streamlined fun shoot 'em up experience.

Resident Evil 4 was a great turn for the franchise. I still love and want the old fixed camera, but the new perspective and enemies gave a new sense of panic.

I have a wii and it has replaced my gamecube. I play RE4 and RE:remake almost every day on it. RE:UC will probably be the first game I actually buy for my wii instead of renting.

The cut scenes you have seen of Jill and chris are probably from an early build (we haven't seen them in new clips together for awhile.) or they are only together for a short while.
Even if they stay together I DON'T CARE. I want to play it.

[News Bot]

The cut scenes you have seen of Jill and chris are probably from an early build (we haven't seen them in new clips together for awhile.)

Latest trailer still shows them together etc.

But I do realize i'm being a bit cynical here. Forgive me for that, i've got a cold and it's totally screwing me up mentally xD.

[Rancid Cheese]

It makes sense for the two survivors in each game to be together. Otherwise how would they explain the co-op? Given the fact that in the original RE whichever of Chris or Jill that you didn't play as, was never to be seen again until the last 10 mins of the game, it has no conflicting issues with the canon and/or significant events of RE1. In fact this way makes MORE sense since it's always been recognised that the events of RE1 take key ideas from both scenarios, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. Having read the Kotaku Hands-on I gotta say I'm not swayed one way or the other by it since this was obviously at the game show where I'd doubt you can get properly into the feel of any game in such a setting, given how public and unhomely the surroundings are. This has all the makings of being the first RE game you can pick up and play when you've got some friends round that doesn't involve the age old problem of one playing and one(+) watching . . .

[BLSR1]

that doesn't involve the age old problem of one playing and one(+) watching . . .

Thats actually fun. I like watching. Sure is scarier than the RE movies.

[Ridley W. Hayes]

UC is a light game that is supposed to turn the monsters, locations, and characters we love into one streamlined fun shoot 'em up experience.

Exactly. I coudn't say it better.

[News Bot]

I exposed you, bullet_math

Wtf?

Also, if you think the music is bad, you fail hard at life. This is not a matter of subjective opinion, if you consider the remixes rehashed, you're completely batshit insane. Period.

...By rehashed I do mean remixed. One and the same thing. And yes, I do think that the music is bad, I haven't really heard much, but so far it's not making my ears proud.