By the time Wesker’s son jumps a motorcycle over a helicopter, you’ll be numb enough to the game’s ridiculousness for it to become charming. If you accept it for what it is- Resident Evil by way of Michael Bay-then it’s only half bad. Look, Resident Evil 6 isn’t a good game, but it’s sure an underrated one. There’s enough going for RE5 to keep it from bad game territory-especially if you’re playing co-op-but it’s still the weakest of the franchise. The gameplay ranges from clumsy to tense as hell: at its best, RE5 improves on the arena fights of its predecessor at its worst, it’s pseudo- Gears of War with inferior boss battles. This is still action-era Resident Evil, though, so you also get Chris Redfield punching a boulder into a volcano. From a story perspective, it’s off-the-rails dumb, but there’s a touch of anti-imperial sentiment beneath the surface: bad guy Wesker is a eugenicist now, and the evil corporation’s plan hinges on exploiting Africa for resources. Sheva is from the same region of Africa as these villagers, but you couldn’t tell from looking at her.įrom a political perspective, no game in the franchise has aged worse. The game even dabbles in colorism-just look at the difference in skin tone between the infected Africans and your sidekick Sheva Alomar (who’s introduced with a shot her of butt, by the way). It comes down to ignorance more than hate: to inform their depiction of Africa, the Japanese developers turned to American media (namely Black Hawk Down, which is racist), picking up stereotypes along the way. In turning African citizens into bloodthirsty, subhuman monsters, RE5 dabbles in imagery that’s dehumanized Black people for centuries. Its race problem is complicated and probably inadvertent, but that doesn’t make it any less racist. Let’s kick things off with the worst Resident Evil game in the main series: 15. This list includes remakes and the remade, as well as the two Revelations titles. I then used foolproof, indisputable science to rank them from worst to best. To celebrate Resident Evil shambling across the 25-year mark, and to prepare for the upcoming release of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, I played every mainline game in the series back-to-back. Where the mainline games are concerned, there’s not a single bad entry in the bunch-not even the one you’re thinking of right now. It’s also one of the most consistent: from the 1996 original that gave survival horror its name, to the recent Resident Evil Village, the series has maintained a surprising level of quality. Resident Evil is one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.

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