Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

The Good
I refuse to write anything here, it would defy my existence as a human being.

The Bad
Um... where to start. There's so much bad about this game I could throw up. It's fascinating how Capcom can make a game series so much worse with each game. The voice acting is still horrible, and is actually worse than the prequel. The storyline... oh, I really don't want to even mention it. Read my review about the prequel, read what I said about the storyline there and multiply it by ten, then you got my opinion about the storyline in this game. The tradition of insanely simple puzzles is enforced very well, it's now more crappier than ever and has now descended to the level of being mere open-door-with-key-"puzzles". It can now truly be called a mere action game, you start with an M16 which was seen as a super powerful game in the prequel (where which you only had the weapon in the last moments in the ending) which is absurd thinking that a revolver in the first game was blessing to have. And the zombies are now everywhere, but they just go down like flies.

There's more bad things to mention, but I don't see the point, a bad game is a bad game, simple as that.

The Bottom Line
Okay, in the two last prequel's review I said the games could be enjoyable to a degree. That has completely ended now. This is no game which you could enjoy all in all. Yes, there is actually some very few good points, the music isn't bad, the new costumes you can get through a secret is cool, and the graphics isn't that bad. But that's it. There's absolutely no other nice thing about the game. It's crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, and utter craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap! The wierdos who loved RE1 and 2 to death and see Resident Evil as a religion will perhaps like this game. All other persons should scream at sight with this game, and eat all copies of the game so no one can behold how completely awful this game is. There's no word in the dictionary which can sufficiently describe how much I hate this game.

The Good
Resident Evil 3 was a great game! The graphics are pretty decent for its time. The game is full of mystery and suspense! And the new feature that was added was great too. This feature allowed you to choose what you wanted to do in cut scenes. The story line is full of different endings and that makes good for replay value! The story-line is great! The whole mishaps with Umbrella unfolds in this installment.

The Bad
The games sound is just crap. The BMG's in this game are more funny then scary. The sounds of the zombies sound like old people. Nemesis voice sucks too. The game will have you running in circles and will get you frustrated. The game really is good over all.

The Bottom Line
Well I think the game is great! Its just the sound and the puzzles that take away pleasure from this game! Perfect for any Resident Evil fan/Horror game fan.

The Good
It's Resident Evil! Jill's back from the first game! Zombies are still loose in the streets of Raccoon City! If you liked the first two games, what's not to like?

Oh, and still heaps more story... RE3:Nemesis happens roughly simultaneously with the events of RE2 (Jill even visits the police station where most of RE2 occurs, in fact), but THIS time, she's being hunted by the Umbrella Corporation's relentless inhuman assassination machine -- the Nemesis, a sort of tentacled undead Terminator thing, who pops up periodically in the game to kick the living poopie out of you as you try to escape the doomed city...

The Bad
What? Only one character? The previous two games let you play either of TWO characters. True, at one point you do get to play Carlos (the Umbrella Corporation mercenary who helps Jill out occasionally), but it's not the same thing.

The puzzles, which were loads of fun in the first game, and only slightly out of place in the second, now become remarkably intrusive. Why does the downtown park fountain in Raccoon City operate on a gear puzzle? First the mansion from the first game, then the police station and sewer in the second game, and now the entire downtown area is based on puzzles? What the hell? Is Raccoon City infested with puzzle freaks, or what?

The game's creator, perhaps wishing to add more complexity and depth, introduced an element where, by using a loading device and "gunpowder A" and "gunpowder B", you can make different kinds of ammunition for your various weapons. It's an unnecessary complication, really, and a waste of space and memory that could have been used better.

Despite being a considerably newer game, the graphics haven't gotten any better, since this was the last RE game created for the original Playstation... sigh

...and since it's a PS1 port, get the gamepad peripheral out if you want to play this one on the PC. Otherwise, you WILL have control problems.

The Bottom Line
Third-person zombie shoot in downtown Raccoon City. The original RE was largely a horror movie... whereas this one goes more for the action/shootemup style, sacrificing any last vestiges of spooky atmosphere for the kind of scares you get when something horrible leaps out of the closet at you. This isn't necessarily bad... but it's not what made the first two great, either.