9 Great Video Games That Did Not Deserve The Hate
1. Resident Evil 6
If there is one thing Resident Evil fans will gripe about, it is that Resident Evil 6 is not survival horror. But it never tries to be. From the first moments of its bombastic opening sequence it was clear that fun was being placed before fear.
And that is no bad thing.
Its four campaigns, from Ada’s stealthy sniper sections to Chris’ Call of Tight-arsed shooter to Leon’s survival horror throwback to Sherry’s melting pot of a bit of everything, mean that players will inevitably find something they like and a lot of what they didn’t think they would. Novel enemy types abound, like the new J’avo, whose ad-hoc mutations produce a swarm of clacking, spitting, exploding havoc that has to be seen to be believed. There’s excitement, with missile spewing gunships, and motorbikes jumping over said gunships. There’s intrigue, with a crooked, horribly creepy politician and the most stylishly dressed genocidal femme fatale you’ve ever seen. And if that were not enough, you wade through all this mayhem using a fighting system that allows you to pop professional wrestling moves.
Resident Evil 6, simply put, is tremendously entertaining. Capcom knew precisely what kind of game they wanted to create – a fun, over-the-top, lovable buffoon of game that gleefully throw common sense right out the window. And they succeeded: look to Steam reviews, which remain consistently positive even years after release and you realize that Resident Evil 6, with all its wonderful, hammy dialogue, heroic sacrifice, genuine tragedy and blind stupidity, is not a bad game, but a stroke of genius.