UK reviewers are horrible

And both of the UK reviews have finally been released today.

Here's a summary from rehorror.net:

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-There are files and diaries about the early history of Umbrella.

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-Like other reviews they both say real-time item management is a total hassle for an action game.

UK gamers can't handle tough games.

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-With online, pressing pause only pauses your player's movement. The game will carry on and enemies will still attack you.

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-If your online buddy hasn't unlocked a certain weapon you cannot give him it or its ammunition.

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-The friendly fire option was apparently scrapped. Shooting your partner will still send them into a "flinch" animation and stop them from firing but they will not lose health.

What were they expecting? Inflicting massive damage with a headshot and then punching your partner to the other side of the room?

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-Both players must press the skip cutscene button for it to skip. At the shop screen where you select your loadout, one player pressing confirm will activate a 60-second countdown for the other player to finish up.

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-Each chapter has its own online leaderboard for completion times and rank awarded. A good rank will unlock a figurine.

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-A records screen keeps track of your hit/miss ratio for each weapon, your deaths, enemies defeated and more.

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-There is a level select menu.

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-Mercenaries co-op is unlocked at the end of the game.

Awesome.

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-A "History of Resident Evil" section contains detailed profiles of everything that appears in the game.

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-Josh was Sheva's mentor.

Who?

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-When Sheva is AI controlled she will shout out hints that tell you how to progress to the next level.

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-Screens show Sheva facing four Lickers at once, on her own, during one of the mandatory split-up moments.

RE2 enemies are back. Excellent.

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-The last quarter of the game has you facing mostly Majini armed with guns, including AK74s. The contextual cover system is heavily prevalent in this section.

Halo and Gears fanboys will have orgasms.

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-You cannot manage items when in cover.

It makes sense.

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-In the later sections the "ethnically diverse" Majini disappear.

FUCK YEAH. No more irrelevant Jews and Europeans in Africa.

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-Regarding the final boss battle, the reviewer says "The final encounter is a huge disappointment. Don't worry, I won't spoil it for you, but it's meant to be a massively important battle that definitively brings certain parts of Resident Evil's story arc to a close. But the frustrating difficulty and the fact that it's almost impossible to work out what you're meant to be doing makes for a crushing finale that's a joy to see the back of for all the wrong reasons."

Ok, it's a fact. UK gamers really suck.

OPM gave the game 8/10 and Xbox World gave it 81%.

Faldio wrote:

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-You cannot manage items when in cover.

It makes sense.

Not really.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

Faldio wrote:

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-You cannot manage items when in cover.

It makes sense.

Not really.

5:57-6:00: 'cover' system displayed.



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Weapons being placed on the characters' backs.



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Reasonable.

Presumably item management isn't just changing weapons? Even so it could be that you choose weapons in cover, and change weapons immediately after leaving cover. Given the real time item management, it'd make a whole lot of sense to be able to use the cover system alongside it.

I don't see any problem with not being able to switch weapons while covered (in RE4 you couldn't even shoot while in cover). You can easily change it after leaving.

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It just seems inconsistent. Can you open the item menus at all while in cover?

Since I could open it when I was climbing ladders and jumping off windows -but still I wasn't able to change weapons-, I assume so.