Typewriters dotted around the levels enable you to save your game enemies vary between the traditional zombies through to mutant dogs and even weirder flesh-based monsters that defy description (in part because the animations are less than pint-sized, natch) levels require exploration, back tracking, and some mild switch-throwing puzzles to proceed and ammo is rationed out like its caviar during World War Two in a bid to make battles tense and tactical.įrustratingly, however, the execution disappoints – despite the fact that all of the Resi saga's key elements have been successfully regurgitated.Ĭombat is a pseudo turn-based affair that renders encounters with enemies fairly staccato and, when they aren't being deathly dull, hugely frustrating. Playing as one of the two in alternating chapters, you explore both the inside of an exploded science facility as Naomi, and also find a way to escape while playing as Tyler.Īll the series' devices are on hand and implemented. Taking the famously gory PlayStation zombie saga and compressing it down from 3D to 2D, Confidential Report File smartly contains all the hallmarks you'd expect to find in a horror-cum-action game, especially one in the Resident Evil series.ĭivided into two distinct storylines, one focusing on rookie security guard Tyler Hamilton and the other on special agent Naomi McClain, you're charged with investigating the outbreak of a virus that has turned average citizens into brain-guzzling, flesh-chomping zombies. Treated? Or should that be tainted? You see, Resident Evil Confidential Report is a bit of a poisoned chalice. Xbox 360 slash-em-up Dead Rising has already been a big hit – and now we're treated to a mobile phone version of Resident Evil. The vacant look to the eyes the aloof, couldn't-care-less plodding the blood-soaked lips that appear like smeared lipstick – already hot on the catwalk, it's a look to die for. Pocket Gamer may not be Vogue, but boy do we know a trend when we see it.
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