I. DEMAND. A. REMAKE. Honestly, all the references to Outbreak in RE7 makes me hopeful. Also, I think the whole online play is very mainstream now so definitely worth another shot. I can already imagine it being quite popular to stream.
The opening of the first RE Outbreak is one of the best things to ever come out of the franchise in my opinion. The music, the imagery, the artistic value on the opening to this game alone is bigger than the entirety of some other franchises out there. I dunno why people don't mention it more, I think it's one of the best cutscenes ever produced for an RE game.
The best part about Outbreak is that it's canon. You can find a post Raccoon City news article written by Alyssa in 7 and people have seen a ton of references to the Outbreak police characters in footage of REmake 2.
@@shagohad3 there is an ending where everyone survives, but since none of these characters were referenced in later games it was assumed that the canon ending was them staying in the city to die in the explosion.
The Sorrow I’d want a remake tbh. What’s wrong with RE4 and the RE2 remake? They are amazing and the gameplay is smooth and looks so refreshing no matter how much you play of it
I remember renting Outbreak from Blockbuster back in the day. Before I knew that RE had spin-offs, I just figured it was the newest game in the series as a whole. That opening cinematic always got me so pumped up.
This was a really fun project to work on, and it was amazing to be able to experience it again! If I ever happen to do a video on it in my channel, I'm probably going to drag you back into it.
I agree with your criticism of the ad-libs, but you spoke so negatively. Don't you see what a great thing it was? It maintained REs atmosphere in an online setting. It's more good than bad.
This is going to be a lengthy post, because I feel this conversation is worth a discussion, because I am conflicted on it as well. Don't take this as a challenge to your opinion, I'm just merely saying my own. Design wise, at least in terms of a survival horror setting, I would agree. The lack of communication does facilitate a horror setting, and I find that really admirable that Capcom stuck to their guns. It's difficult, if almost impossible to horror scary in a multi-player experience, but Capcom did make it work. My focus on the negative is mainly because AvalancheJared had already focused on a lot of the positive aspects, and I didn't want to parrot him too much because that just makes more work for him. His views mostly reflect my own and we talked at length about the design while we are playing. He can tell you just how much I *love* Outbreak. That's not to say it's without major design flaws. The problem is that Outbreak is also an online game that requires a lot of cooperation, and Outbreak's scenario design absolutely depended on being able to communicate things not covered by the ad-lib. For example, the hospital mission I mentioned earlier. You need to communicate which floor you are going to because in order to get through the mission on the hardest difficulty, you need to split up, grab the different keys and make your way to the exit. More often than not though, you have no idea whether or not the other group had grabbed the other key without issues. You also can't really 'wait' because hanging around in an area too long is a good way to get attacked by the leech. It becomes a major source of frustration not being able to communicate with a partner that "I'm going to check out roof." Same with the hotel scenario. There are points where if you are playing on the higher difficulties, you have to split up or take on different tasks. Or a scenario shown in the video. While me and Jared were on the subway, we had no idea that our teammates were fighting a boss. So basically, we just sat there wondering where people were. Not because we lost them, we just didn't know it was time to fight the boss. If the game didn't want you to communicate effectively to keep the horror, I totally understand that, but the design has to account for that. The first Scenario, Outbreak, is good because it keeps everyone moving together but has micro-splits during that time. The second scenario also does a good job because while it does split things up fairly early on, it gives each person their own responsibility before the paths ultimately converge. Some missions though don't effectively handle that. The issue with that is that it ends up being more frustrating, and as soon as something becomes frustrating, it no longer feels scary. You never feel like you in are overwhelming odds as much as you do feel like the game has put you in a deliberately disadvantageous situation. It also becomes an issue is that the online component is very grind heavy. You effectively repeat mission after mission to unlock different things, which is what kept the online community going. High level play in Outbreak effectively turns everyone into speedrunners, where you know the game so well that there aren't any scares. I mean, that's just going to happen naturally if you play the game more than once. And this is where the lack of communication really starts to hurt the play experience. Basically the game becomes less about effective cooperation and more about memorization of the level completely, and those that didn't know the level often got left behind. There wasn't a lot that the development team could do to solve this and keep that balance. I understand why they didn't want to add voice chat. It was expensive to implement for something that was effectively designed as sort of a budget experiment. Also, even if you had location based voice chat with filters to add the illusion of distance and talking through walls, having someone talk nonchalantly about what you need to do because they have played the mission 43 times would have taken people out of the horror setting. They couldn't design the levels to be linear because that would have made the game dull and not feel like a Survival Horror game. Really, the only choice they could of had is to make it optional, either as part of the way the servers handles (a story mode that had no voice chat and a free mode that did, which they almost had to begin with), or make concessions with the scenario design. Outbreak File 2 fixed some of these issues with more ways to communicate and a more effective ad-lib system, and I have no doubt that if we would have seen Outbreak 3, they probably would have perfected it. Either way, I don't envy the developers for trying to solve this problem. And a reminder that I *love* outbreak, I had over 200 hours into it when I first played it and put in another 20 or so when doing this review. I don't even mind the ad-lib system because now it's part of the game's charm. But it did have it's flaws and it's important to understand them, otherwise we'll never improve on it. That's the whole part about Gaining Experience and Building Character.
@@AvalancheReviews so do you plan to talk about resident evil trading card game or just leave that one subject alone xD cause u gt hero cards that happen to include the outbreak characters as a exspansion along side re4 re5 with re2 code veeonica re1 n re3 based cards thrown in
SoberDwarf I wanted to. Play with you and Jared but I had to head to bed that night but Jared and I running through the Zoo was too fun. I'm definitely up for another full party run sometime.
A lot of people may have already noticed, but in Resident Evil 7 when you're in the second Mansion there is a document in the living room that you can pick up and read, at the end of the document you see it was written by none other than Alyssa Ashcroft, making the Resident Evil outbreak games Cannon.
This is something I WISH capcom would try to revisit. It looked great for a PS2 title and would do well with an hd polish. In an era where capcom is obsessed with making a multiplayer RE game (RE5,RE6,RER,RER2,RERC,REUC) this SHOULD be the Resident Evil Online multiplayer game to bring back. I’m still holding out a small hope that they revive this series. You can even have different “Outbreak” locations other than raccoon city such as Sheena Island, or Terragregia.
I would be interested in seeing them take another crack at this, but I doubt they could resist giving it gameplay more like RE4. I would be shocked if they didn't include the over the shoulder view and faster paced combat.
Avalanche Reviews too true. However with its dynamic fixed camera perspective you could probably have a game that doesn’t need tank controls kind of like a eternal darkness. Why not have a third person fixed camera with dynamic movement, and then as soon as they aim it goes into a over the shoulder perspective like resident evil 3.5? There’s something about the fixed camera perspective that is very atmospheric and I think that atmosphere is robbed when it’s over the shoulder. However if they use the same lighting techniques they’re using in the resident evil 2 remake that atmosphere me yet still remain.
Alternatively, they could use the RE7 first person view. People are saying how RE7 allowed the Resident Evil series to return to its horror roots while giving the camera perspective a much-needed upgrade.
Steven Quast I’d have to disagree here, I would say the first person view would work better with hypothetical remakes of say the gun survivor series rather than outbreak. A good amount of RE fans didn’t care for the first person perspective for RE7 despite enjoying the title.
The Sorrow they are an honest gaming company. Why comment on every single thread saying the new re's are trash? Do you get off on being wrong? Capcom certainly knows they wouldn't get away with getting rid of the old gameplay, but you think they're the type of people to just blindly throw their fanbase in the garbage. Use your head.
An Outbreak like multiplayer is something I was hoping for in RE Remake HD. Imagine if you and a friend played as a security personnel and a scientist during the original mansion incident, before STARS showed up. Everything is going to hell and you need to get out of the mansion. You can even have special abilities, like the security guard deals 10% more dmg, takes 10% less dmg but only has 6 item slots like Chris and while the scientist has lower maximum health, he can also hold more items, can use herbs more efficiently for 1.5x or 2x effect. The little nuggets of easter eggs and tidbits that you get in Outbreak would be perfect in that case. It's not stuff that's required but for the super hardcore, they'd love just a little bit more world building into a game they love. If you're not into multiplayer or don't care, you're not missing anything essential, since the original story is still in the regular mode. But it gives you a little dessert if you still want more after finishing the main quest.
Outbreak was the narutal evolution of the old school gameplay It included alternative movement to the tsnk controls, movement during aiming, and command melee moves like the Kevin's kick
I had no choice but to play this on single player and it was very difficult to resist the urge to shoot myself. The partner ai was awful. I really wish they'd remake it in the revelations engine.
The partner A.I. is unfortunately what ruins this game. It's a team-based game that you can't win on your own, which means that if the online servers were going to be shut down and you would be forced to do single player, you would need really reliable A.I. Outbreak doesn't have that.
I wouldn't say it ruined the game, but it made it very frustrating. I basically had to use team mates like portable item chests and hope they didn't die too quickly
Yoko was my main character, being able to hold 8 items was the selling point for me regardless if she was weak, she was the most valuable. "Look at all of these items in my Awesome backpack" this is what you need for survival. Zombie outbreak rule always have a backpack!
Justin Bennett seriously!!! Yoko was a big favorite of mine. I seriously loved how they all had their own special abilities. It always made me want to try out different characters in different scenarios
I personally liked Cindy the most because she was moderately fast and could dodge enemies attacks fairly easily in my opinion.Just had to read enemies properly an time your dodges right to take little to no damage,not to mention she could heal allies an store herbs in her herb kit.I personally liked how she could help injured teammates by holding them but still able to dodge easily and just grab them again to continue guiding them somewhere in file 2.l loved the zoo level an the last level but was wondering why they never tried more zombified animals like in the raccoon city zoo.
Yoko a lot of times seemed to be a necessity on the later 2 scenarios in the first Outbreak(never got a chance to play file 2) just because you will need the inventory space. George was also pretty much needed if you were playing single player during the Campus run, due to ot being the longest scenario and you will be needing extra viral pills.
File 2 is ridiculously difficult. I breezed through Outbreak on Normal difficulty eventually cranking it up to Hard to get more unlock points. File 2 had me playing on easy the whole time because normal was no normal. Also, my boy Kevin is the reason I loved this game. It's also where my username is from. Made me feel like I'm part of the canon.
Gotta love how Kevin is able to change his firing stance, so he can deal twice the damage with handguns AND MAGNUMS! In Easy and Normal modes, his .45 Auto can instantly kill an ordinary zombie when using his stance change.
Playing this online back in the day is one of my dearest gaming memories BUT only because I had 2 personal friends to play with. We would do a 3-way call, plug our phones into their chargers, and have voice chat. I can appreciate the desire to preserve the atmosphere but playing with randoms where our bootleg "voice chat" wasn't an option was an exercise in frustration to say the least. I would LOVE for Capcom to remaster 1 & 2 and enable online functionality w/voice chat on modern consoles. Kinda surprising this hasn't happened yet, honestly.
It's probably canon that at least George, David, Yoko, and Alyssa got out alive. Alyssa has a hidden cameo in RE7 and then of course George and David are both in scenarios where people escape with the cure, and then someone has to have testified against Umbrella later on
Resident Evil Outbreak was the only game I played most than any other PS2 games I have. As each character can interact with other NPC's to receive other stuff. Such as Yoko on Bellow Freezing Point. She can talk to one NPC who does recognize her, and gives her an item. Other characters can't get the item. And many other key items. Alot of those stages during Outbreak does link up some close relationship to each of the characters. Such as Cindy having a locker on Outbreak that she can only open, but also having her own opening on Wild Things (Zoo level). Even Alyssa who are somehow connected to Flashback stage (won't spoil it), and many more. Every time you play a different character. You might find new things that is personal to them. Or notes that you can read but it belongs to someone else, or a special note that doesn't spawn to any other character themselves. Like another Example: Desperate Times. Kevin can only find the note for Leon in the office. I could sit down and talk about Outbreak File#1 and File#2 all day. But there is so much more to see rather than explained.
This is a love letter to Resident Evil Outbreak. I'm so happy the community is still running strong for the game. I plan on trying this out but I only own MAC computers :( I hope I can try it. I own the US release(s) of the Outbreak Series. Now I must hunt for the Japan(ese) version.
I watched a podcast recently with Alyson Court, she explained that there were over 40 scenarios for outbreak that unfortunately were never brought into the games. And she gave some very interesting backstory to some of the monsters that you do encounter with the scenarios that were allowed to be fully realized. -She considers it her favorite Resident Evil, and was heartbroken to hear just how much had been ripped away from what was one of her favorite passion projects.
I would say that after so many complains about RE6 they started working on the best reboot they could, and even before they could release RE7 they had to start the long awaited RE2 Remake, and seeing how much effort and dedication were put in those games, it seems like a good explanation to me. Now, even before RE2 releases, people is asking for all the old titles to be remade, so there's a chance, a small one, yes, but still…
@@illusivekennedy me too, it's more than clear now that the setting worked, otherwise the franchise wouldn't have survived this far. I don't know what they fear, honestly, the remake would have been amazing with at least an Outbreak style camera, if they didn't want to go all fixed.
@@ajhhc Exactly, but I guess they don't want to give up that easy casual money. You don't know how many current RE fans I hear or see just instantly put off by the look of fixed cameras. Or they give up saying it's too hard after 5 minutes. If people would just try, they'd see how good these games are. The perspective really adds to the experience. It's a shame there isn't more online games like Outbreak.
@@illusivekennedy I beat the games fix camera angles is just annoying to me even when I played great games like omnimusha and dmc didn't mind it on ffx guess cause that's turn based
The teleporting zombies isn't a connection issue, its actually a desyncing issue between emu players and console players, and this problem gets worse the longer you play and the more doors you go through. You will not encounter this problem at all if you play with console players exclusively, if you're a console player l, and if you're an emu player, sticking with other em7 players will eliminate this problem entirely.
It happens on console too, the group of friends I played/play with are all on console. Even when I played with two of my own systems on different screens with a guest, it still happened.
lol I played the game back when the official servers were up. The zombies still teleported. I'm pretty sure it's just the net code was poor. Though with todays fast connections it's bound to be better.
Having played it back in the day, it was an issue with teleporting zombies as well. The net code wasn't that great, with the game taking a lot of approximations and then trying to fix them with the 'host' (aka, the person who started the lobby). It would try to get the information from the host, then send it to the other players, as opposed to running an instance of the game on the server and then giving that data to all the players. If the host did not have the data needed (aka, wasn't in the room), then it would go to whoever had that data instead (sometimes you, sometimes the first person in the room.) A lot of PS2 games did this. You aren't wrong, it is a desyncing issue, but it's also a connection issue. If the host had a bad connection to the server, it would lag out, not just for zombies but also for opening menus as well.
I loved this game & I wasn't a Resident Evil vet. I watched a friend play some of RE3, but Outbreak was the first I played in the series. I wish Capcom would remaster this. At the time, I didn't even know this game was 2-player.
I remember playing this solo in middle school on my ps2 waaaay back. Lowkey used to scare me, but I had so much trouble trying to beat any of the scenarios by myself. I dont think I was able to appreciate it for the masterpiece it was because I never played it online, but hopefully I will get the chance to do so once I get it on PC. Absolutely amazing reviews man. Ive literally been watching your videos all night. Awesome work keep it up! Also, I see you with that VTEC background on your PC.
This is a game that should definitely be re-released nowadays, it was a bit ahead of it's time for what it was trying to do, but, like, nowadays with how internet is a bit more better, it could be fun, to be fair it'd be a very niche market, but still, we can still play it sorta online with emulation shenanigans as you showed, of course, my PC can't emulate it perfectly (yet), I mean, it is a waste of their money, there's no guarantee that people would buy it, but I know for sure that i'd buy it, if it was like, an ''Outbreak File Extra'' or something that includes files 1 and 2 merged. I mean, it's a better idea than Umbrella Corps ever was. If that's what it's called, i actually confuse the name of it a lot.
Cause it's also a probably waste of money, I mean, they ''didn't'' know that was gonna be bad right? competitive games was a big market when that hit shelves, Resi has this sorta way of reflecting the era nowadays, Even Resi 2 remake seems like it's surfing the amazing Yakuza remakes in a way. Sometimes it pays offs, sometimes it doesn't, truth is, there are new people born every day, and as much as it's nice to get things to please us old fans, we all are going to die eventually, so will the market for that nostalgia, so a new direction isn't all bad, when done well, i just usually hope more for a funny disaster than a boring one, or with some luck, an extremely awesome game like RE 4 was, it was a disaster in the making that one, but, at the end of the day, sometimes the pieces just works. I mean, it'd be fun, but, it's a too small of a niche, I know i'd buy it, and you'd buy it, but 12 year old tommy prolly wouldn't, since he neither knows enough of the old school Resis to understand the little fan services Outbreak has, nor he has adapted to the clunkyness that we love so much right? Overall, there's just a word for it, ''It's risky'' , also the bloody original files are probably lost forever so they can't just port it or something like that, maybe reverse engineer it from the Isos if that's possible (Heck, as far as i know, that's what they did with DMC HD), but boy would they still need to remake assets from the ground up, so it's not as easy as it'd be to say port Merc 3D, or maybe they burned those files too, still bloody wished it came to pc, bollocks.
I watched a video from you about RE7, and I think one for SH. I watch a lot from a lot of people, so who knows. Outstanding stuff, though. I really miss Outbreak. I played it for 2-3 years straight, and I love seeing it referenced--like the article in 7, written by Alyssa. I've since subscribed to your channel. Thanks for this trip down memory lane. :)
The slow awkward movement and the A.I. ruined Outbreak for me. It had so much potential but the frustration was too much for me at least in 2003. I should give it a second go now that time has passed.
It can be a bit awkward, but the online experience I think makes up for the shortcomings. I used to play only single player, and there's definitely a bit if drag to the controls, but I was able to get used to it.
The computer AI is garbage. The game was meant to be played online with other people. You'll have a way different, and much less, frustrating experience playing with randoms. It makes a world of difference when you have a human Mark blocking off zombies for you, as opposed to getting chain grabbed and begging you for help.
I remember playing this game during it's glory days, I was one of the lucky ones. I think the craziest thing to think about, is how this game had no voice chat when it was released. And now you can't imagine the gameplay without it. But I remember all the creative ways players used to communicate with eachother through the adlib system
It's crazy that not a lot of people played it. I think i was around 13 or so when my brother left me the PS2 when he left home. I only played outbreak on it. I was a noob team mate though. There was only a handful of maps I knew what to do on because most people would blow through all of the others, and the only time we could communicate is pre and post game with the ol' playstation keyboard. Also connecting online was kind of a pain I remember.
Ah! Finally! In my experience I never gone online with the game finished OBfile1 and 2 only with bots and I gotta say besides the bad AI in RE5 and RE6, the AI's here are more intelligent, except for those NPC's that you try rescue. My go to character is Kevin for gun at hand from the start and Yoko for healing and extra item slots and I think this is the first RE title that features the melee combat. Capcom really went downhill later on the survival horror, heck this IS the best survival horror multiplayer online experience to be exactly honest, where there is tension and dread even if you got a buddy with you and l promised myself last time if you make an outbreak retrospective I'll sub so you got a subscriber here.
Nice review. I remember playing this game back in the day and thinking "this is amazing! but so frustrating at the same time". Mainly because of the tech. I live in Chile and in those days internet sucked so much. I always thought this game was a generation ahead. I hope one day capcom give it another try tho this type of resident evil.
Was ur user AVALANCHE online? I started playing this a few months ago off and on and i ran across AVALANCHE a few times that would be awesome if it was you, and for anyone that would want a video guide instead of the steam guide, ide recommend Dear Yoko's guide on youtube, his link has a zip with everything bundled.
Yup same here, im so glad i actually got the chance to play with you! i wish i would've known then, my name was Jaco and i almost always played as Cindy, what a pleasure!
Man, the greatest crime of Outbreak Is being TOO ahead of its time. Imagine how perfect it would be if it was released at the PS3/Xbox360 era? Actually, remastering the game as a PSN game would be neat idea, with the 2 games In 1 and also the lost scenarios (there are a few that would come In a “File 3”). And also it should come with voice chat option.
I NEED a clone or mod of this game set in Lovecraft country in the 1920’s. Viral meter- horror meter. Antiviral- morphine. Zombie- nyarlathtep affected. Licker- dimensional shambler. Hunter- deep one. Plant 42- shoggoth. Tyrant- star spawn. Yawn- yig. Elephant- whately. Snakes- children of yig. Levels: Downtown arkham from the police station to arkham asylum to Miskatonic university. Innsmouth from the gilman hotel to the gold foundry to devils reef. Dunwich from the abandoned town square to the wizard whately’s house to the hilltop ritual mound. Kingsport from the back alleys to the underground sewers to the cultists’ catacombs. DLC bonus levels include Beneath The Pyramids in egypt, Mountains of Madness in antarctica, call of cthulhu in the risen city of r’yleh in the south pacific. Weapons include numerous melee and craftable melee, thrown objects, and era appropriate firearms like: Pocket pistol (activates when you are grabbed by an enemy). 1911 .45 auto, with one character having the ability to wield a second 1911. .45 carbine that uses the same ammo as the pistol but grants higher capacity, range, and damage at the cost of inventory space and rate of fire. Tommy gun with 50 round capacity that you find later in a mission to trade in your 1911 for a larger, fully auto boss weapon. 9mm luger pistol and 9mm machine pistol that both have access to a higher capacity snail drum for players to argue over. A variety of shotguns from early game double barrels to end game slam-fire,rapid pump-action shotguns that all use the same ammo. .30 cal powerful bolt action rifle that will later be exchanged in favor of the fully auto 20-round BAR. A flamethrower that is very powerful against groups and bosses but is very large in the inventory slot and has very few fuel packs to scavenge. Use your imagination for the rest.
@@coldstuff9784 RE Outbreak is advance beyond it's time. When you got a gun equip and it has bullets a zombie grabs you, you can shoot the zombie on the head. Unlike main line RE titles where there are sub weapons RE1 remake and RE2 remake, RE4, RE5 and RE6's qte escapes and RE3's resist and escape.
Yeah i own both outbreak 1&2 for ps2. It is indeed fun and difficult at the same time. Playing online was good but the lack of solid communication was a bust.... if only the made an outbreak file 3 on modern consoles id be game but ill just stick with single player and the Dumb down AI survivors. Excited to see the reviews for Revelations, kinda ironic you saved those for last, hints the name!
This is my second favorite RE game after RE4. Hard as hell when played solo, but it really feels like "survival horror" cause you're playing as normal people and not trained special ops agents with unlimited shotgun ammo.
I have no hate towards this game at all, I love both the outbreak files and bought them both for my PS2. I love how each character has their own special trait that could help out with surviving from the incident of Raccoon City. This game is fun period.. They should of remaster or remade this instead of giving us Umbrella Corps....... Also I was really invested because game's premise is based literally on the same time line as RE2 and RE3. Hopefully with the success of RE2R and later down the line or RE3R, we can (with lots of hope) get a remake of the outbreak files to play with our friends and strangers.. lol. I seriously enjoyed how the new RE engine is working, and I can see this game working wonderful with it. Please CAPCOM!!!
Pfft, you didn't even get the true experience because you were voice chatting. That wasn't an option when the game came out unless you finagled it via alternate means (which is probably what you did anyway). When this game came out, all you had were the presets. Getting people to do anything was hilariously difficult, but that was part of the experience. When you did the route splitting, you just had to sit back and pray that the other fireteam was doing well and that they'd get their objectives complete while you did your own path. Nothing was worse than wondering if the other guys were getting ravaged by Hunters. I know this is covered in the video, but it's a huge point on why this game didn't work for a lot of people.
I remember playing this online for the first time at my best friends house when I was in 5th grade (2005) My teammates left me to die by falling of the ledge that you have to jump to the next roof from the 1st level. I miss this game.
Bought this title the first day it came out. Came with a red water canteen labeled biohazard from GameStop. I never was able to play it online. I was so frustrated with the incompetence of my AI teammates, I just stopped playing. What a weird customer is my favorite lines.
Wow, imagine if this were re-released today with some modern enhancements. Throw in mod support and/or mapping tools, and I can see this becoming popular again
It really could be! I heard they recently took out a copyright on the Outbreak name for a website, so maybe we'll get to see it come back at some point.
I'll be honest, I played the first one for 5 minutes, and then an AI ran up some stairs away from a zombie, got to the top, turned around and ran straight back down the stairs and then died to the zombie still waiting at the bottom. Then I turned it off and traded it in...
I love the og games first level. I think of each level as its own game. But yes i do think this for hc vets. I still havent finished file2 two last scenarios. But so far ive only gone through 3 levels without help from yt.
I enjoyed this game even 100% solo. I played through all scenarios, all difficulties, with all characters. It was very replayable. It holds up incredibly well and its my favorite RE game.
I wasn't this game remade, with a Multi Split-Screen mode..! How fun would that be?! Imagine re2 Remake, except you can play with friends! Oh, sweet lord that'd be fun! One can hope that Capcom hasn't abandoned this game. Fingers crossed? I want a split-screen Resident Evil I can play with a buddy or two. Am I the only one? I probably am. But I don't care.
Recently I reacquired Resident Evil Outbreak File 1 and 2, and it's just my personal opinion that file two is much more difficult, even with the new features. Though they both have severe drawbacks when you use it exclusively on the PS2, lugging that brain-dead AI floor by floor, door by door, can be a little taxing.
agreed, i feel like most of the scenarios in 2 are for more unforgiving. *Looks at wild things* But since i play it on custom servers, replace Brain dead AI with people who don't understand how to properly use their characters special items or actions or straight up greifing. I find myself going back to File 1 more since it's far more forgiving and newbies have an easier time going through scenarios.
@@espio329 while I've got you I was hoping that we could both come to an agreement that Cindy is amazing, sure she may be a fiend snatching up every last piece of pot on the map, but she's the only woman to survive a zombie outbreak in heels, and a slit skirt, with a high ponytail. Legend.
FINALLY! My girlfriend has been WAITING for you to review this. 😀 By the way, thanks for getting her into Parasite Eve again. She watched your retrospective on PE and now she wants to play the game after only having cursory knowledge of it all this time. 😂 Back to RE Outbreak, I have HOURS of fun playing File 1 and File 2 with my friends. I played as Kevin and Mark, mostly. My girlfriend played as Cindy almost exclusively. My girlfriend and I want to play this again and am hoping for an HD remaster of File 1 & 2 on the current generation consoles with the proper adjustments for multiplayer in the modern age. I.E.) Text/Voice chat I'd also like local offline multiplayer for it, but that's unlikely.
This game introduced mechanics new to the franchise (and I dont just mean multiplayer mechanics). For example, you could ‘brace’ a door by having your character lean against it - to temporarily prevent zombies coming through (they will eventually manage to break through and cause you to stagger), for that matter, zombies will only temporarily stay dead, depending on your difficulty, necessitating the need to brace doors. A player could brace a door to give the other players time to loot a room. Also, as you mentioned in this video, you could shoot open doors. And theres obviously the infection meter, different characters had different infection speeds.
Absolutely loved this game. Played it regularly until the servers shut down. Way ahead of its time but it's a shame that the hardware and network weren't up to it. Left4Dead, Dead Rising, 5 and 6 and so many of the "revive your buddy" games that came out after borrowed heavily from it. Blew people's minds when you could use a F-aid spray as a weapon and heal your 3 teammates in exchange for not healing yourself. Also Rita best waifu.
I think Capcom is in the process of producing a new Outbreak game. I hope its a complete overhaul and original game and not a remaster of the original. Speaking of Leon and Claire teaming up, it'd be awesome to play as them both with a partner in the RE2 story. Someone should mod that in.
What the hell is wrong with people like you. I make a simple constructive subjective comment and suddenly its trolling. I won't be editing anything for I stated NOTHING wrong or offensive about anything. Hell I don't even know what you're referring to, the Outbreak or the RE2 co op? What the hell is your problem.
Well let me tell you that you are 99% wrong. Capcom recently registered a domain for Resident Evil Outbreak. www.residenteviloutbreak.com/ Which gives credence to Capcom developing a new Oubreak game.
Pierangelo Tartari What about RE4, RE7? Those games are just as good as 1,2, and 3. I loved RE4 and idk why so many people bash it just because it has an OTS view. I prefer the OTS view compared to the fixed camera so much more. The fixed camera feels cheap.
yep, i prefer the third person camera too, resident evil 4 it was ok, but wasn't a true resident evil (or canonic) if you prefer. But Resident evil 5, 6 it was just trash.
Pierangelo Tartari Not Russian and you're a fucking idiot it doesn't matter how you feel cuz 4,5 and even 6 are all RE and canon so go cry with your answer
Honestly... as much as I hate the current trend of multiplayer centered games and even games as a service, I gotta be honest the outbreak game(s) would be perfect for the modern day. Image remaking Outbreak files 1 and 2 as one game. Like a full modem remake like the new re2. Revamp the scenarios. Better flow, better puzzles, teamwork etc. Then since the original games were already full of alternate outfits and alternate characters, they could do more as dlc/microtransactions. Then if it's successful even make new scenarios/expansions. And with the extra decade plus of RE content that has come out they'd have alot to pull from, imagine a scenario set on the Baker's farm, or the Spanish village from re4 etc. Im honestly surprised they haven't attempted this since this series of games I think would fit really well into today's gaming market.
I remember playing this game and being taken aback by the uniqueness of each character. Making everyday people with limited/no experience in anything special and have to work together to survive. This game could do exceptionally well just as the RE2 remake did. Updated graphics and maybe even add stuff that couldn't be done in the original due to graphics limitations
This game was so ahead of it's time. I think if they'd waited until the Xbox 360/PS3 generation to release it, the game would be remember as a classic RE game and probably still played today. Time was not fair to this game, I wish there was still an easy way to play it online these days.
Man these games were epic...the Leech Man used to haunt my fuckin dreams😂😂 lol if Capcom was ever thinking about remaking Outbreak, now would be the time! A New gen Outbreak would be insane lmao
God i really really wish Capcom remakes this game. What with the release of RE 2 Remake and it being bangin' hopefully just hopefully they'll consider remaking this.
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