Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

An enjoyable Spin-Off with 4 players co-op campaign, lots of multiplayer modes and great fanservice. Graphics and AI could be better.

Some diehard Resident Evil fans may be disappointed by Raccoon City for sapping the survival-horror soul out of the series. But the game's satisfying blend of gunplay and teamwork, coupled with its cool references to past Resident Evil games, make revisiting the perilous streets of Raccoon City worth the trip. Even with its failings, Raccoon City keeps the action rolling along; just make sure you bring some buddies to help you slaughter all the undead.

Obviously, Raccoon City is not the best Resident Evil game. It's a third person shooter with poor AI, clunky gameplay and standard production values. Its campaign is quite short, but its multiplayer modes provide hours of zombie fun.

None of it feels much like Resident Evil. [Issue#84, p.85]

The forgotten chapter that should have stayed unwritten. [May 2012, p.84]

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is everything I hoped it wouldn't be: a mediocre shooter hoping to be bolstered by the Resident Evil name. It takes what is arguably the series' best setting and wastes it, forcing players to plod through generic underground facilities and the occasional, oddly vacant street from one boring encounter to the next.

The intelligent use of horror, intensity, and most importantly, subtleness has gone. While this game is only a diversion until Resident Evil 6 arrives, Capcom have done an amazingly awful job. Resident Evil used to be the trendsetter, the series everyone looked up to, now its identity has been de-constructed in a major way.

This game got way over criticized to the point I think a lot of gamers are becoming as disillusioned as IGN, because its actually a fun game with a pinch of Resident Evil nostalgia set in a what if universe and the game is like a cross between gears of war and left 4 dead, so maybe its a tad bit buggy, but its still a fun game and if you paid 10 or so bucks then you got moneys worth for sure, so don't pay attention to all the haters, because they probably drink the Bill Gates kool aid.

Could be a good game but wtf is up with the garbage sponge enemy's they soak up bullets like there immortal good game but something wrong with the collision detection sadly crapcom will discard all errors and questions regarding this game could have been a great game of the problem was sorted out

Olvidense del terror en este juego...como juego de acción desenfrenada es bueno, tiene bastante acción con guiños de resident evil 2, pero esta lejos de ser parecido a los grandes resident. Resumen: como resident evil es MALO, como juego de acción es DIVERTIDO.

operation raccoon city is really not fun and i have no clue how this is backwords compatible on the newer consoles very bad overall just not fun at all

This action spin-off of the main series would be fun if it didn't feel so odd to play and actually gave some progression as far as story. The control in the game just feels so floaty, and for me that is easily the worst part. Everything about this game just seems half-assed. The characters seem like they could be cool, but you never really get to learn anything about them. The story tries to intersect the plots of the main games but really misses the mark. The idea of this game was really cool but it really didn't work out. Fans of the series will be hugely disappointed but non-fans may find a somewhat enjoyable game here.