Resident Evil: Degeneration

[slitchfield]

It's the first N-Gage first person shoot 'em up and it involves killing large numbers of zombies in a wrecked airport. But is it any good? Find out with Ewan as he goes a-blasting in Resident Evil: Degeneration. Along the way he finds the game design too 'square', the default controls too frustrating and the graphics too limited. Yet, despite all this, he still recommends it overall as 'fun' for all would-be zombie vigilantes...

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[aatifsumar]

okay two things.
firstly, i play a lot of first person shooters, and i don't get HOW anyone can play this WITHOUT strafing(moving left and right while still looking straight). the 1 and 3 buttons were PERFECT for strafing but strangely are for moving diagonally left and right. you think there is any chance of an update of some sort to fix this??

secondly, WHY is reset generation the only game with an actual online multiplayer???

Asphalt, WSOP, One, Crash Bandicoot, and even this could all have multiplayers. if reset generation can, then why not these?? thats the MOST addicting part about the game.

[Tzer2]

secondly, WHY is reset generation the only game with an actual online multiplayer???

It isn't the only game, Pro Series Golf has online multiplayer too. It's turn-based, but then so is Reset Generation.

To answer your question properly though, it may be to do with how early on this is in the new N-Gage platform's life. The original N-Gage took almost a year to get its first multiplayer game (Tiger Woods), so the next gen N-Gage is doing pretty well by comparison.

I totally agree multiplayer would be great on more games, especially now that most compatible phones have Wi-fi so they don't have to worry about lag.

to aatifsumar:
resi is not a first person shooter, its a survival horror. i think you will find it controls more or less like resident evil 4, which i love.
This game is one of the best on n-gage by far, it maybe short but mercanaries makes up for that. must have along with one, mgs and reset gen

[viipottaja]

aatifsumar, the games you mention are all pretty high speed, action packed ones. Doing real time multiplayer online over phone networks for them may be technically almost impossible (latency, perhaps also the amount of data that would need to be moved around). Reset Generation and Golf are a completely different story as they are very slow paced in comparison. I am a bit surprised and disappointed that games such as pool do not yet have real multiplayer. Also, I would have thought games such as backgammon, chess and checkers would have come out faster, offering good online multiplay (even if only as Java ports).

[Tzer2]

Viipottaja, totally agree that all turn-based games should be multiplayer, and also agree there should be some multiplayer board games on N-Gage too. I will be very disappointed if the upcoming monopoly title doesn't have multiplayer of some kind.

But as almost all the N-Gage compatible phones have wi-fi, it should also be possible to do real time action games as multiplayer too, as wi-fi doesn't suffer from phone network latency. You could only use wi-fi at home or at hotspots, but I think a lot of people play online that way anyway.

[aatifsumar]

@viipottaja

what about POKER??
i know people who play online poker all night.
who wouldn't want online poker on their phone?
and yeah for fast paced games, there can be a disclaimer saying that its preferable that u play this over wifi not 3G, but we should at least have the option.
and i CANT wait for WWP!

[Tzer2]

I think online poker would be a huge hit, hopefully one of the two upcoming N-Gage poker titles (Million Dollar Poker and Dchoc Poker) will include multiplayer...

[junchao8]

What kind of graphic is that?!?

Pretty sure a gameboy can do better.

[Emo185]

Originally Posted by junchao8

What kind of graphic is that?!?

Pretty sure a gameboy can do better.

Gameboy NAH, Gameboy Colour NAH, Gameboy Advance - maybe (Doubtful), DS Yea.

The game itself seems to look better on the phone rather than in pictures, but the whole game is rendered in 3D. The original Resi games were 3D Characters with Artistic set pieces (thats how you could easily see which items could be moved or not). thats why the original Resi games might look bit better than this, but in a sense they are sort of on par with each other.

Its a good game, espically for mobile device - both in terms of gameplaya and graphics.

graphics wise though (atm) it would be PSP -> Iphone -> DS -> N-GAGE But at the end of the day its all about enjoyment and thats what Resi Degen brings.

[Tzer2]

The N-Gage platform is fairly similar to the DS graphically, which is pretty good for a phone. Things like Bounce or System Rush could easily be DS games.

But when you're playing on a phone (or indeed a portable console) it's not important to have the best graphics. If graphics were most important, the PSP would be the best-selling portable, but it isn't.

[sandy_1988]

I think this one is a fairly decent shooter. Graphics is a bit letdown, but still, it's not that bad. And the gameplay is decent, and you can enjoy the game, unlike MGS, which, I feel, lacks cohesiveness in terms of gameplay mechanic. In terms of gameplay, MGS fails as a stealth game, but RE should win as a survival horror/shooter.

Worth mentioning too to new readers that the new SDK release should hopefully allow developers for N-Gage to build in more comprehensive multiplayer options this yr, in addition to improved graphics for phones with hardware acceleration, and possibly the use of the accelerometer & GPS too to make some very interesting games to make the platform stand out.
What a long sentence that was!

[Tzer2]

Thanks for that robg79, hopefully the new SDK will come out soon so developers can get working on the new features.

I think its a pretty good game. I had no problems with the buttons moving around and shooting using my n95 and i never used 1 and 3 buttons. Plus i was the first person on ngage.com forum to finish the game, 0phil0.