10 Video Games That Had No Right Being This Good
4. Resident Evil Revelations
Resident Evil 4 is renowned as one of the greatest video games ever made. It certainly has its flaws and foibles (the questionable dialogue, for one thing), but it hit a fantastic compromise between action and survival horror. The two games that followed it definitely upset that balance.
What the series needed, with 2012’s Resident Evil 6 being such a mixed bag, was a title that reminded long-time fans of the golden age.
That same year, Resident Evil Revelations released. A distinctly smaller-scale Nintendo 3DS release, it flew under the radar of many, but perhaps delivered just that.
Revelations, with its third-person, laser-pointer action, was mechanically similar to the Resident Evil titles of its era. It was rather slower-paced, though, and concentrated more on building an atmosphere than on blasting waves of foes and dramatic set-pieces (not that such things were absent).
Proceeding cautiously around Queen Zenobia as Jill Valentine, in particular, felt like Resident Evil as old fans remembered it, albeit less clunky, which newer fans also appreciated. It was surprising that the 3DS, of all systems, was the original home of such a title.