There are also a few unusual features such as climbing gear, to help try and get a literal drop on the enemy, and the ability to just peek through doors instead of slamming them open.Īlthough given the maps are so small there’s rarely much opportunity to employ any real cleverness, as you’re thrown into fights almost instantly and with little chance for forward-planning. Although the axe melee weapon is so overpowered it makes a lot of the other choices largely irrelevant. There are three predictably ordinary class types to play as, but some decently interesting upgrade options for your weapons and gear. all the weird monsters that aren’t zombies) but your main enemy is simply the other team, who are presented as a rival corporation attempting to retrieve secret research after the collapse of Umbrella (the evil corporation behind all the strife in the original games – in case you were wondering what the game had to do with fighting in the rain). There are also other BOWs (bio-organic weapons – i.e.

Once you do the zombies will suddenly turn on them, which can be highly amusing if they’re bunkered down in what they previously thought to be a safe camping spot. Unless, that is, you shoot the thing off an opponent’s back. Umbrella Corps (PS4) – a footnote in Resi historyīut the game’s most interesting feature is that both three-man teams are wearing a ‘Zombie Jammer’, which makes you invisible to the shambling hordes.

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