

You'll get more acquainted here with dodging out of the way of attacks and switching between all your various sorts of weaponry. New character Jake Muller would seem to be the wild card – his entire demo sequence is a single boss fight, so it's tough to know what his levels might play like when he's not fighting a major enemy.Ĭhris' action-packed sequence finds him running across the roofs of buildings, trying desperately to fight off hordes of zombies and make his way to a rendezvous point. But if you decide to play as Chris Redfield, the demo section is an all-out guns-blazing action film. Playing as Leon Kennedy, Resident Evil 6 feels like a slow-paced traditional horror game with an emphasis on exploration and fighting a small number of enemies. It's going to have three separate single-player campaigns, each of which stars a different character and each of which, at least based on the E3 demo, plays quite differently. 2 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, seems to be making an attempt to be all things to all people. So any reversion to the classic gameplay style would mean a separate, possibly larger contingent of fans complaining that the Resident Evil they enjoyed is missing. But the run-and-gun slaughterhouse action of Resident Evil 5 made it the single biggest-selling game in the series. If you're an old-school fan of the plodding games that started the "survival horror" craze, you probably don't feel like the fast-paced shooting action of recent Resident Evil games is truly what you want. LOS ANGELES – "That's not Resident Evil."Ĭapcom probably gets this a lot.
