For many longtime Resident Evil fans, Project Resistance‘s announcement has been somewhat of a disappointment.
The upcoming title is a spinoff of Capcom’s illustrious franchise and represents a drastic tonal shift for a variety of reasons, chief among them being the introduction of multiplayer. Unlike the mainline games, which have, by and large, been traditionally single-player affairs that task you with surviving a living nightmare on your own, Project Resistance is, well, the opposite of that.
The premise is simple. Using an asymmetrical format similar to that of Dead by Daylight, Resistance pits a team of four survivors against a single human-controlled opponent, the Mastermind. The survivors’ job is to escape a series of increasingly difficult scenarios filled with zombies, Lickers and puzzles while their opponent does everything in their power to prevent their success. Choosing enemy spawn points, triggering environmental effects (e.g. turning out the lights...
The upcoming title is a spinoff of Capcom’s illustrious franchise and represents a drastic tonal shift for a variety of reasons, chief among them being the introduction of multiplayer. Unlike the mainline games, which have, by and large, been traditionally single-player affairs that task you with surviving a living nightmare on your own, Project Resistance is, well, the opposite of that.
The premise is simple. Using an asymmetrical format similar to that of Dead by Daylight, Resistance pits a team of four survivors against a single human-controlled opponent, the Mastermind. The survivors’ job is to escape a series of increasingly difficult scenarios filled with zombies, Lickers and puzzles while their opponent does everything in their power to prevent their success. Choosing enemy spawn points, triggering environmental effects (e.g. turning out the lights...
- 9/23/2019
- by Joe Pring
- We Got This Covered
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