13 Most Anticipated 2021 Video Games Ranked - Did They Live Up To The Hype?
10. Resident Evil Village
Resident Evil Village was so close to being a great game but, like a slasher movie villain who isn't quite dead yet, Capcom's worst instincts leapt out to ruin everything in the final act.
The signs were always there - the trailers for Village promised a more high-octane installment in the franchise than the wonderfully menacing Resident Evil 7 - but for the first 2/3 of the game it seemed Capcom had managed to pull off the delicate balance between horror and action that typifies Resident Evil at its best.
Castle Dimitrescu felt like classic Resident Evil in all the best ways, and the PT-inspired horrors of House Beneviento offered the kind of skin-crawling dread that's usually assosciated with Silent Hill. Sadly, all this good work is tarnished by the game's tedious final act - a stupifyingly ponderous slog through a labyrinth of gunmetal grey corridors, filled with achingly dull battles against bullet-sponge cyborgs.
It's undeniably a testament to the strength of Village's opening acts that it manages to make its way into the top ten of this list, despite forcing 2021's worst level on the player. But Capcom, if you're listening - mech suits and survival horror do not make good bedfellows.