Umbrella Corps Review (Ph0b0s)
Hooooooly shit. This one is the worst of the RE games, and anyone else who says otherwise is a liar. Umbrella Corps screams cash grab with an attempt at appealing to fast paced squad shooters. You might think its just Operation Raccoon City with just better stability and more modernized graphics, but you'd be wrong on that and for clear cut reasons you see right from the moment you start. I already heard of its infamy, I saw the videos and reviews, but I had to personally see it myself. With a heavily discounted cost to the game, the price of an energy drink and some cheap beef jerky, I can still say this game is hardly worth the money. Umbrella Corp at its basics is a squad shooter that wears the skin of Resident Evil. Don't bother trying to tie any relevance of the series to this game, you won't find much beyond some recreated maps from previous games and the fact you have bioweapons roaming said maps. The general game modes you have are objective based or 1-life last person standing kind of matches. If you're looking for a solo experience, they have one which is basically just about trying to clear the multiplayer objectives in the fastest time on your own; collecting samples from infected you kill. Gunplay is...awkward. The game's third person view leans hard to the right, which does give you a good view of everything in front of you but looks so weird compared to other third person shoulder angles in previous games i played. Crouching and prone doesn't seem to slow you down either, and as you already move pretty fast movement just comes off comical at best. With the infected inheritly unaware of you as a mechanic, its pretty easy to handle about 99 percent of any bioweapon no matter what the game type, making the only real threat is human opponents. Good luck with finding some of those humans by the way, the hardest thing in this game is just getting enough people for a match unless you got some friends and a strong enough rope to keep them from struggling free. The playerbase for this game wasn't even that large upon Umbrella Corps release date. So what we have in summary, is a primarily multiplayer, PvP centered game with half-assed objective modes and limited maps, anemic playerbase numbers, with no sign of any significant improvement since its release. This game was dead on arrival: do not buy.