4/5 ★ – ColeTrain's review of Resident Evil Code: Veronica X.

Before you ask no I'm not addicted to RE but maybe I'm  just in denial , I'll let you decide that for yourself. So the story of this game puts  you in the shoes of Claire Redfield again three months after RE2 . She infiltrates an Umbrella research facility in Paris still searching  for Chris however  during  her search she gets found out and is captured by Umbrella's security forces who send her to a remote prison in a place called Rockfort Island. During Claire's  imprisonment there's an outbreak of the T virus in the prison turning prisoners into zombies so a man named Rodrigo captain  of the security  force that captured her and imprisoned her there lets her go free   Claire asks him why he's letting her go  Rodrigo  tells her That it doesn't matter as she probably  won't  survive long anyway and says everything's finished. Claire then decides  to leave the prison , find out exactly where she is and see if she can get in contact  with  Chris somehow.Time to talk gameplay  now well it's  back to the more traditional style  of gameplay of RE with the tank controls  returning from the first  game  so you'll  have to get readjusted  to that again. However it's a bit different  from RE remake  in that you  get into  position  with right trigger and then shoot with X  this definitely took some time for me to get used  to.Time to talk about the weapons so there's obviously your standard pistol which kinda sucks  at first  but you can eventually  find parts that allow you to upgrade it which  allows  you to fire it in bursts rather than just a single  shot this makes it much stronger and a more viable  weapon  later on. There's  also the shotgun which is  a pretty solid gun it'll take care of just about everything  you'll run into. The Bow Gun which is like a Crossbow the regular arrows of which   you find plenty for it are pretty garbage it can take I think about 13- 15 shots to kill even  regular  zombies.There's one redeeming quality of it however and that's if you find bowgun powder and you mix it  with the   regular arrows you can create explosive  arrows.These are pretty awesome as they'll kill most enemies  in one shot it's worth saving these for some of the tougher enemies you'll come across though. Somethiing  new to Code Veronica are the Dual SMG'S  these guns are good at filling  zombies full of lead in a hurry. There's  also  the knife for really  desperate  situations where you have no ammo . that's just to name a few of the weapons.  There's still puzzles  in this game of course and one I found interesting for example is in the prison there's  a section where you need to put an eagle shaped object into a gate in order to open it so you have to go to a desk in one of the buildings around the prison open a drawer and take the object however  there's a metal  detector that won't allow  you to go through with it so you have to find  the 3d duplicator which is like a 3d printer and then put the eagle into it but it needs material to use in order to make the replica so you then have to find a metal case in the back of a truck and unlock it you'll then find that the  case was holding a special  alloy that can't  be detected by metal detectors.You then  have to take that through the metal detector put it in the duplicator and put in the eagle then use the duplicator to make a replica of it then take  that replica through the metal  detector  and place the replica eagle object in the indentation where it's  supposed  to go then you will be able  to open the gate and go through to the next section you need to get to. Somethiing else interesting  and different is that the camera  is not fixed and pans along with you as you go from area to area but the positioning of it is somewhat similar to RE Remake still . Now the good and the bad I liked the setting  of Rockfort Island  it was interesting going to all new location I hadn't seen before. I liked the storyline I found it very interesting. I really liked Claire a lot she's  such a great character  really well done such a kind and sweet person and willing to help others in need I liked her progression in this game as well she's  more experienced but not so much to a ridiculous degree. I liked the later parts  that gave some Transylvania vibes kind of a nod to dracula type stuff especially as you progress there's some other great locations as well. I loved the dual weilding  so much  that made me just say "woah !" I was so surprised  by it. I liked that zombies  were a bit less stressful  to manage, no Crimson Head's to deal with thank god,  no burning of corpses  needing to be done . You also don't need to go for headshots to kill zombies you just need to shoot them until a pool of blood appears under them and they will be permanently  dead  , it just felt nice not to have to be super accurate to permanently kill a zombie for a change. On to the bad this game really doesn't give you enough resources to handle the threats you're  going to  encounter and I understand the genre is Survival Horror  with limited resources and whatnot but come on some of the bosses are almost (and in some cases completely) unbeatable without using certain ammo which means if you used really strong stuff like the Explosive Arrows early on in the game  and didn't have that kind of power for later boss fights you're just put up shit creek without a paddle so you'll have to restart and be more greedy with your good ammo on your restarted file which can mean losing hours of progression which can be really REALLY frustrating the first game didn't do that so why does this one ? Another thing is having  to use Ink Ribbons can be annoying too especially if you've made lots of progress  only to not be able to save the game then dying and having to do a really  hard part again made me feel a bit demoralized  in some sections of the game. One last gripe is that the game will sometimes allow you to put the wrong  items  in the wrong spots but if you do that you can't  take the item  out of the wrong  spot you put it in to change it and correct  your mistake completely  screwing  you from progressing .overall though I enjoyed my time  with Code Veronica quite a bit however I feel like it would greatly  benefit from getting a remake to improve on some of the more frustrating aspects of the game.