![]() That was different in Outbreak, you can effectively split up from your friends both by choice or by sheer accident due to elevators, covering more ground and finding new routes. With modern horror co-op, you can’t really explore freely and you’re forced more into a linear approach of moving through the game with a friend. ![]() At first it was simply for the fact that we were playing the first ever four player co-op Resident Evil game, but then over the years after playing each sequel in the main series and playing other co-op centric horror games we realize that Outbreak - and its sequel, File 2 -did something far better that later co-op horror games just can’t do, it was that sense of discovery you get by exploring a haunted place together. My high school friends and myself played that game so much so that a lot of it is still engraved in our heads and we reference it from time to time as being a great horror game. It was a way the series could have continued before it made a far more drastic change just a year later in 2004 with the action centric Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube.įor me, Resident Evil Outbreak will always have a soft spot in my heart, it introduced me to online gaming and actually got me used to it as a teen. While some of this may sound anchoritic now, at the time it was a revolutionary leap in Resident Evil game play and console online gaming in general. On top of just having four player co-op, you could also barricade doors, hide in lockers and under beds, shoulder an injured teammate, if gravely injured you can crawl on the floor, zombies can follow you room to room, there is an infection meter and if that goes up all the way you too can become a zombie! There was even a unique talking mechanic that used the right stick and left trigger on the Dualshock 2 to make the characters talk with each other in an era where using a mic on a console was unheard of. At the height of it’s popularity, it took what made classic Resident Evil and up the ante of it to eleven. While yes, Resident Evil Outbreak by today’s standards is pretty dated in terms of presentation. You’ll never get the same experience twice! Photo Source: /Capcom And let me tell you for an early online game, Resident Evil Outbreak was one hell of a fun time with so many outcomes and possibilities with each play through. Here you still picked any of the eight survivors but are teamed up with three other human players as you all go through any scenario/level you have unlocked. The other mode was the game’s selling point and that was the network mode, which featured four player online co-op it was the first for the zombie franchise. It featured two key play modes, one was the regular single player mode with random bots that lets you pick and play as any of the eight survivors and take them through five different scenarios/levels, each unlocked upon the completion of the previous level. Originally released in 2003 for the Playstation 2, it featured a story that occurs during Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, following not the regular heroes of the series but instead the regular citizens of the doomed Raccoon City and their escape from that famous zombie outbreak. ![]() Resident Evil Outbreak was a multiplayer game ahead of its time in an era that was just starting to get familiar with online console gaming.
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