There’s more life in a month-old corpse.
First, there’s the pain. Swiftly followed by the rage. And finally, wondering where you can find some brains. Nope, it’s not the zombification process, just what you experience playing this dreadful Resident Evil team shooter spin-off. Despite the series’ course correction we’ve seen from Beginning Hour’s teaser for Resi VII, this inexplicably squirms onto PS4 offering nothing that anyone – let alone fans of the series – wants.
Umbrella Corps is a series of bad design decisions. At a glance, it’s a simple third-person shooter, but the camera’s so close to your shoulder that your character takes up a third of the screen. This obscured perspective means a zombie could dash at you from the left, but you’ll have a hard time seeing it coming. And it’s an issue compounded by a ropey cover system. In a shooter this fast, quick reactions are a must, but latching onto and breaking from tacky cover is a sluggish act that directly leads to deaths.
This story is from the September 2016 edition of Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition.
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