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Resident Evil: Outbreak | 
 enlarge | From: Capcom
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  157 reviews
Sales Rank: 4263
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: CAZX9
Model: 26027
UPC: 400088059301
EAN: 0400088059301
ASIN: B0000TSRA6
Release Date: August 7, 2006
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| Features:
| | Events span from Resident Evil 1 through 3. | | | Character choice dictates player abilities&scenarios. | | | Cooperative&competitive gameplay. | | | Real-time 3-D graphics. | | | Multi-player: 4 player in online mode. Requires Network Adapter. |
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Product Description
Resident Evil Outbreak retains the signature Resident Evil storytelling, visuals, and bone-chilling audio that Capcoms survival-horror fans demand. The game introduces an all-new story, an assortment of new characters, anda large number of non-player characters (NPCs). Scenarios are generated for the player by the game with storylines branching off in new directions based on decisions made. Players can enjoy each characters own storyline, as well as communicate with others. Resident Evil
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| Customer Reviews: Read 152 more reviews...
 Great item! September 19, 2008
Kathryn Chernesky
Game was delivered promptly and was in great condition at a resonable price. Thank you.
 Amazing Graphics! terrible game! April 30, 2008
Adam Prentice (KANSAS CITY MO)
The graphics of out break were with out doubt quite possibly the best ps2 has ever seen. But you cant change camera angles you cant move quickly all in all the game sucks! it's like watching a bad movie. i loved the resident evil games! but this one seems like they spent way too much time beefing it up and for got that keeping it simple is always best!
Sorry 2 stars.
Easily One Of The Best Resident Evils; Great Horror Game April 15, 2008
Stephen B. O'Blenis (Nova Scotia, Canada)
With a wide cast of playable characters, and taking place concurrent with events through several of the 'main' chapters of the Resident Evil series, 'Resident Evil: Outbreak' takes a diverse bunch of citizens of Raccoon City and has them thrown together by fate to face the horrors of the city's zombie outbreak. In all of the game's scenarios, there are four characters per team, the player handles one character and the computer takes care of the rest (in the 'online' version multiple players can join up). I love a game where there's a team scenario, whether it's multi-player or the computer controls your allies, and it works really great in horror games. Here, considering the computer controls 3 team-mates simultaneously but working together is essential, everything comes together surprisingly smoothly. You can call for your teammates, ask for help, share items, etc., and they do the same where you're concerned. The computer-controlled characters act as if they have ideas on their own, and individual personalities come out well (ex. some characters are more 'team players' where others are more self-oriented; some more bold and agrressive; some lack confidence and hesitate at bad times; etc) You can have your character talk to others by pressing buttons, but each time they, for example, call out for help it's not necesarily phrased the same way, alternating between several possible lines. Occasionally, the dialogue from the computer-controlled characters is not especially relevant to the situation, but that turned out to be a plus in an unexpected way - sometimes the timing of different lines comes out very funny. Each character also has special skills - some have better fighting moves, some excel at constructing makeshift weapons, some are skilled at healing themselves and their partners and one can even avoid zombies by playing dead!
As the game progresses, new challenges instead of just battling the hordes of the undead will crop up, including a good number of weird monsters. Puzzle-solving remains a part of the overall Resident Evil makeup. Going through different stages, there's also the element of discovering new and disturbing secrets, which is an important part of pretty well any horror game.
For the view you get a good camera angle that sees the characters and action from slightly overhead, letting everything be seen in good detail from the texture of the envirornments to the characters to the well imagined monsters. With up to four characters, plus enemies and non-character 'civilians' on the screen at some times the individual characters are usually smaller in scale (to the screen) than in most of the Resident Evil games but it's never confusing or lacking in detail; they did a really good job making sure you got a nice clear picture and can appreciate different aspects of the game. The controls work well and each character has quite a bit of stuff they can do, not just run/shoot/heal-with-herb.
I enjoyed a lot of the aesthetic aspects of the game. The opening credits feature some of the best, most haunting music ever in a video game and they way they combine the swelling uplift of the music at one point with a representation of the T-virus transforming everything gives it a chilling, apocalyptic feel. Darkly beautiful. The graphics on a creature like the leech-monster are really impressive, everything constantly moving and writhing, really well done and distinctive.
The characters: instead of it being pretty much all elite STAR-type commandoes, the focus is split. You do have one in that traditional mode, the police officer Kevin, plus a similar character in Mark, an older security guard who draws on Vietnam combat experience. Mark is probably the physical powerhouse of the group and one of the best characters. Other characters include a waitress (Cindy) from the bar where the zombies first attack, a doctor (George) and a deliveryman (Jimmy), and their personalities are pretty diverse. Yoko, a university student who from the start seems like she might have some hidden backstory to her, is one of the best characters to play, partly for that reason. Cindy, without there being much really overt, is just one of the sexiest characters in a video game, both in the way she's animated and the voice, as well as the fact that she just comes across really nice. Like Mark, she's one of the most helpful characters to have around, and one of the best to play. Yoko seems shy but nice, but there's that undercurrent there that 'is there something else going on that may not be as trustworthy, or not?' and that helps make her even more interesting. On the other hand, David, while possessing one of the best skills in the game (makeshift weapon constuction) comes off as something of a jerk a lot of the time, which kind of adds something on. Not all of the Raccoon City residents who end up banded together are necessarily going to be instantly likable.
This is one of the best of the Resident Evil series, and possibly the scariest; and there aren't a lot of games in the horror genre with this 'co-operative team' setup (quite a few you'll get a pair working together, but not a fairly largely group). Incidentally, you can unlock other characters to play as the game goes along and you achieve certain things, and though they closely follow the patterns of the main characters, it's still a great bonus. A must-have for fans of horror games.
 A good edition to the resident evil series March 19, 2008
Ryan
but not good enough to stand out from the others. First ill start off with some of the goods. There are weapons everywhere so if you run out of ammo for your gun, the steel pipe makes a good substitute. If you run out of item space then your partner can carry some of your items and they wont throw away the key items. The same good old resident evil monsters like hunters, cerberuses and even a new tyrant look even better than ever. Graphics are amazing and sound is too. Now for the cons. The puzzles are still frustrating and a lot of backtracking is needed to progress from one scenario to another. The inventory spaces now are cut down to 4 instead of the usual 6 or 8. This can be really frustrating because you have to think very strongly about what to carry. ive only named a few of the pros and cons but if your not a fan of the resident evil franchise and are looking for one to try out i would recommend resident evil 4 or 3 instead of this. This isnt to say that it isnt good, Im actually planning to buy the second outbreak but 3 or 4 would probably be more enjoyable to soeone who hasnt played resident evil before.
 Killing Spree March 19, 2008
B. Bollen
This resident evil is pretty good, but at first you just have to get used to the controls. Otherwise its buy!
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