10 Failed Video Games That Had So Much More Potential

Now, here’s a curveball of an entry. As franchise fans will know all too well, Resident Evil seems to have lost its way of late.

The fantastic fourth entry marked a real paradigm shift, from a slow-burning and super tense survival horror to a gung-ho shoot-a-rama, in which the player lets off more rounds than Arnold Schwarzenegger does in the last half an hour of Commando (which is a lot).

Of course, shooters always have been and always will be a huge deal in gaming, and there were many fans who were totally into the more TPS-like angle that Resident Evil 5 and 6 took. For those fans, the ill-fated Umbrella Corps. really could have been something special.

In this spin-off, teams of mercenaries from around the world battle to take possession of what remains of Umbrella’s deadly work. It’s a multiplayer-based squad shooter, with the action taking place in various iconic Resident Evil locales. All of the vital fanservice elements were there, in short, and this could’ve been a real hit.

Sadly, it just wasn’t fleshed out enough (the single-player content in particular was very lacking), and was a step too far into generic shooter territory. This budget release had some real potential, it had been expanded upon.

In the end, though, it met much the same fate as the similar Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City: judged as mediocre and largely dismissed.