Poll: Resident Evil 6 Turns 12 - Does It Really Deserve Its Dire Reputation?

"It's a good action game, but not a good Resident Evil game"...has always been its most apt description.

@Magician agreed. If you go into it expecting survival horror you will be confused and disappointed. Its a great action game though, especially in co-op

I know a super RE fan who says it's very good. Not RE4 brilliant, but still. So yeah, that resolves the issue

It's very repetitive and not scary at all.

But it has some entertaining dialogue and it's fun to play in short bursts.

@Zuljaras Thanks for that observation, I now cannot unsee that 🙈 Serves me right for checking Google images I suppose haha

Having played all mainline RE games and remakes… even though they are not the best entries… 5 & 6 were one of the best cooperative experiences I played in that era. 6 wasn’t that great but still tons of fun.

Come on Capcom, bring 2&3 Classic to Switch. Last time I played those were during the GameCube days.

I loved it when it first came out, went back to it recently and absolutely hated it.

Outside of Zelda and Mario Resident Evil is my favorite game line. Personally I loved 6, the Co-Op was great fun and the branching storylines worked really well. Yes it's not as horror bases as earlier games, much more action fed, but doesn't mean it's a bad Resident Evil game.

I don't really get the idea that its not a good RE game, but is an ok action game. I only managed a couple of hours of Leon's campaign and about 30 minutes of Chris'. But it was just so dull. Everything was slow, encounters seemed to have no real design to them.

Maybe I just did not get it. There was a bit pretty early on where I died maybe 4 times becasue a car kept hitting me. I just had to find the right place to stand so that it didn't. It was no fun and utterly pointless.

It's biggesst flaw is not that its not scarey it's that its terminally dull.

I stopped on the RE series after the 3DS efforts which I thought were good. RE4 will always be the favourite.

@Yoshi3 2’s eventually gonna come to Switch, because it was on the N64. As for 3, though…

After the crazy opening hour, it improves a lot. And there are different campaigns, depending on the character you choose to play. Some are more old-school slow, and some more action focused.

But sadly most people seem to drop out, during that first hour.

But it's interesting, that people don't have a problem with RE4, mostly turning into a action game, in the second half 😂

Maybe it's not necessarily brilliant, but seeing as that's the only positive option without backhanded fine print... your fanbloid habits leave me no choice, NL.😜

It's not great, but it's also not that bad of a game. Playing solo, I had more fun with 6 than I did with 5.

The fanfic story and awful characters dragged this title down. And to top it all off, nothing made sense. You could skip the cutscenes and you'll be fine. Still, the game looks amazing after all these years.

@Zuljaras I think that interpretation of the logo is basically what this game is for the fanbase. Especially if Capcom is the giraffe and the person the fanbase in this analogy.

I would say it’s underrated. It’s a really fun game in local co-op, much better than RE5 in my (and my wife’s) opinion.

RE4 Wii Edition is an all time fav of mine. 5 & 6 don't feel like RE games but non-scary action games (as someone has kind of pointed out already). They're okay.

Its always been a great bombastic action game particularly with Co-op.

As a main line resident evil game however its just extactly what you don't want it to be.

Went back to it again about a year ago and was having a surprisingly good time. Then I got to the Deborah fight. Hrrmm...

I played Resi 4, 5 and 6 back to back for the first time so by the time I got to 6 it was a nice change of pace and I really enjoyed the story, despite it being seen as fan-servicey in places.

Oh it does, it absolutely does. Dreadful game. Even the decent parts are lackluster.

Felt like something you’d come up with in English when you’re 13 and on a transcendent first three Resi game bender.

I think 5 has aged worse, to be fair. Call me over-sensitive but it’s setting doesn’t sit right with me, that and it’s a shallow husk of a Resi 4 regurgitation.

I think RE4 struck the perfect balance between action and horror. RE5 was more of an all out action game, but I still kind of like it mainly because Wesker is such a wonderfully over the top villain. 6 just went completely off the rails. I've tried to replay it several times over the years, I just haven't been able to.

Played the demo of it on Switch. It glitched out as Chris went through the floor. I decided not to try the full game...

The game is funny as ***** it's worth playing co-op just for the absurd experience. But yes, the game is as bad as its reputation.

If there is a worse game in the series it would be Village, but even then I would probably say Village is the better game by technicality.

I first played it last year and didn't like it. I disagree with the "still a good action game" comments as I found its combat to be clunky and unsatisfying. Some story elements were okay and I did like the idea of bringing together various characters from the series (such as Leon, Sherry, and Chris) for one big story, but the gameplay and design just frustrated me.

I'd say RE5 fits the "decent action game despite its problems" descriptor much more accurately.

This one is hard. After the too short, action-heavy letdown that was RE5 I was very skeptical of this new game. However, the insane control options were pretty innovative IMO. Really gave you a lot of movement options. Also, the different storylines all offered different RE gameplay styles from games past. I give it a 7. I give RE5 a 4. That says it all.

I wonder if they will bother to remake 5 and 6.
Especially since they are working on remakes for Zero and the original instead. Code Veronica also seems to be getting one.

@B3RTAY
I completely agree. After waiting for 5 years, I was expecting the follow-up of 4 to be a lengthy, survival-horror masterpiece with my boy Chris in the leading roll. I didn't have XBOX Live at the time, so I rolled it alone. After pre-ordering the game, my hype was fever pitch. What I got was a short luke-warm action title that hurried the "final" confrontation with Wesker. At least 6 is a meaty adventure. I sold RE5 week after buying it. Probably the biggest let-down in my time as a gamer. And I pre-ordered Superman 64....

In my opinion it's a good game that many people tend to hate on because they let themselves get influenced by other opinions and aren't able to admit that they feel different. The kind of game that people say "I enjoyed it despite of it being a bad game " or "it's not that bad, I had fun". I mean, jf you had fun, which is the main objective of a game it's not sounding like a bad game. If you consider that it's polished, had great graphics for it's time and improved controls over the most beloved RE (4) it's even harder to fathom why it's considered bad.

It does have a bad story. However, I've played RE games since the start and the bad story part and them falling into action at some point (usually at about the last third part of the game) is a thing in most of them. I do agree that this game has worse atmosphere than most entries (RE5 is worse) and that it does have even more action than most, but this series has always being ridiculous and really not that creepy once you were past 10 aside from RE7. It really isn't that different from past entries, specially once RE4 changed things.

This is one of the few RE games I have yet to play. I bought the RE6 Anthology for the PS3 back in the day which came with 1-5 download codes. I then worked my way through the whole series but by the time I got to RE6 I was burnt out and then given the negative reviews never felt motivated to go back. Perhaps this spooky season this will be a fun game to dive into.

I think it is sort of telling that there was a many year gap between RE6 and RE7. I think they really had to rethink what they wanted RE to be at that point.

What's funny is that RE6 sold quite well, so its not like it didn't sell and I feel like if this was another company they would've just done RE6 again for RE7.

At the end of the day, Capcom actually realized the error of their ways after 6 and course-corrected the series. 7 & 8 were back to the roots.

I’ve bought it 3 times now, it’s fun in co op for sure and pretty camp in places, Piers constant lusting after Chris is a good laugh, some great Bosses like the shark and I would choose it over 0, 5 or CV any day
It’s janky as hell tho in places though a solid 7/10

From my point of view re6 main problem is that is not a re game, it's a below average action game with re setting and characters.

Definitely one of the weakest entries in the RE series (but really, just a bad RE game for the lack of horror elements and by any means, not a bad game in general). I treat this as a guilty pleasure. Leon's campaign is probably my favorite and much like RE5, RE6 is better off being played co-op than solo.

Maybe the Best way to describe it might be “messunderstood”?

It's weaker than the likes of RE4 and 5, but still a decent game. Pretty cool how they incorporated zombies back into the series while still having the plagas enemies from 4 and 5.

Also, 6 has the best mercenaries mode.

I played this first on a friend's ps3 with splitscreen. on Switch i played local co-op using 2 switches. Lots of fun. That's how this game was intended.

There's been an attempt at 6 revisionism to try and critically reevaluate it. People trying to claim that its a bad RE game but a good action game. I must say I disdain that attempt. It's just not good. Even as far as third person shooters go it isn't very good. The truth is that a guy chasing you around a dinner table with a shovel in RE7 is a million times more intense than literally anything in RE6.

6 is terrible, granted, I’m not the biggest RE fan out there, but still, it’s awful.

People that said it’s “absolutely awful” don’t know what an awful game is. It’s flawed but no way is it close to awful.

It’s absolute rubbish.

Resident Evil 6/10 is what I call it. See also: Driv3/10er.

The more truthful reviews gave 6/10 to Resident Evil 6.

Very few action games have split screen, even on Switch, and thats where this one truly shines 😎

I read the…less than positive reviews of the game before playing it, on release day way back then. So I knew what to (not) expect.

For me Resi 6 has been a game that I always have had an urge to revisit, so I have replayed it to completion (all campaigns) 3 times since 2012. It definitely has problems, but I think the 4 campains and how ambitious it is makes it so damn compelling. It’s incredibly massive in scope and ambition, even today it actually looks kinda good and it’s incredible how much they crammed into this game. Definitely quantity before quality, but somehow 4 ”pretty good campaigns” makes for a nice whole, to me. Whenever I replay it it’s fun to start in another end then I did before, and to see how the story (which is honestly totally bonkers, but in a charming way) is different depending on what you know/don’t know from the other campaigns.

So yeah, I guess I really do like Resi 6. Not all games you like have to be masterpieces without flaws. Resi 6 just feels special, in a weird way.

Hey, I enjoy it. Nuff Said!

It's garbage and I couldn't stand it