However, nothing's perfect, and this game series has a shit load of imperfections. In the last part of this series I covered my loves of the games. This time around, I'm looking at my hates. And here they are.

Alright! A New spin off game...
and they seemed to have not put any fucking effort into it.

I was damned excited to play Resident Evil: Survivor, especially after the kick ass fun I had on Nemesis. Finally I rented it for five days, and in that five days, well...my hopes where crushed. They changed it to a first person shooter, with characters that seemed to mean shit. The effects sucked, the controls where weird and I don't think I could have ever run out of ammo or died, meaning there were glitches. Most recently, I tried Resident Evil Outbreak 2 and went in with an open mind. It wasn't nearly as bad as Survivor, but close. The multi-character option was neat, but I had no idea what the fuck to do or where to go. Having a zombie elephant was a cool concept, but how the fuck does one kill it? All in all, I'd say they simply made the spin offs as a means to get a cheap buck and not at all to add to the storyline or characters.

I smell rot, and death, and fear...and love?

I know that one of the most famous plots for stories is love blooming in a scenario where it shouldn't. I can let it pass that two people can find a connection while the world is full of blood thirsty zombies. Too bad the RE games have love happening in ways the defy logic. Take game 2 for example: Leon and Ada, despite the fact that Ada keeps secrets and in the end turns on him, Leon cares for her, and there still seems to be that interest in game 4. In game 3, it's Jill and Carlos, who after first meeting, pimps how he uses his accent to score with woman. So you're falling for a player Jill, you could have done better with Chris. In Code Veronica, its Claire and Steve, who treats her like shit and tries to kiss her in her sleep. And to top it all off, in RE 4, Leon has a flirtatious relationship with not only Ada, but with First Daughter Ashley and Hunnigan (who looks like she's doing an office secretary in a Naughty America scene). Leon be pimpin it up. I don't mind a love story, but do it right!

In the first game towards the end, the mansion and lab are turned into a ticking time bomb as due to the facility going to hell in a hand basket, they had a failsafe destruction device. It worked before, and it's works again, but not again and again and again and...again. In the second game, the lab below the Cop Station has an emergency explosion device, as well as the train that the mutated William Birkin is on in the second half of the game. Did they really need a failsafe detonation underneath the city, and below a haven for cops of all places? Nemesis was more understandable as it was a missile fired to wipe out the whole city and prevent any more risk, but there were also explosions in Survivor, Code Veronica, RE4 and I'm assuming RE0 and RE 5 (which I hope to get if/when I get a PS3). Someone should tell Umbrella that going out with a bang doesn't really mean making things go boom.

I don't give a shit how gruesome some scenes were, I don't give a shit how awesome the SFX were and I truly don't give a shit how hot Mila is and the fact she's willing to get naked. The movies, like so many others before and after (no thanks to Uwe), are an insult to the series. I liked them when I first saw them, but I was in my teens at the time and looking at them now, they're about as loyal as shit. For the first film, they only had three of the monsters from the game: zombies, zombie dogs and Lickers, and they alone killed about four people total, the AI killed most of the humans with a laser. Sorry, but I'd rather watch the zombies kill more then HAL with a Little Sweet Sally voice and image. The second film wasn't much better; it only added the Nemesis which didn't even have its tentacles. Jill Valentine was far less memorable then her video game counterpart and the STARS unit was a joke. I've yet to bother wasting time with the third film, and I don't know if or when I will. Silent Hill at first was said to simply be ripping off RE, yet its movie adaptation is easily the best VG film to date. Weird how these things work out.

I know I haven't played it but I don't care. The second I heard about Resident Evil 0 and its plot, I was not happy. Let's run through this: Rebecca Chambers was originally part of the Bravo team and found by Chris inside the Mansion and together, they overcame some hellish odds to survive. What Chris didn't know was that for some reason, Rebecca had survived just like this prior to their arrival with an escaped convict in another secret laboratory and acted like it never happened. OK...they wanted to make a prequel to the RE1 game, I can understand that, they wanted to make a game focusing on Rebecca, I understand that as well, but did they really need to fucking combine the two?! This totally fucked up the time frame of the storylines and made no sense on the whole. If they wanted a game with Rebecca as the star, they could have easily adapted one of Perry's in-between books, Caliban Cove, which stared her and had a damn good story. Or they could have had someone else during the incident. Again, I've never played it, I don't care how awesome the action is or the monsters or the visuals, this game fucked up the timeline and story, this really didn't need to happen. The only good thing to this game is it shows how Wesker is alive and now more then human.

So there's the good and the bad. Next up: the weird.