Anglerbe's Soundtrack of the Week

Resident Evil 4

Regenerator Theme

There are some people who claim RE4 is the best game in the series. There are others who claim that it was the cause of the downfall of the RE series. As for myself, it's my least favorite Resident Evil game in the realm of games that the RE title wasn't just slapped on to. It stays true to it's roots, but packs a little too much focus on shooting for my preference. All of that being said, I enjoy this game, and it's soundtrack is almost as good as the classic RE games. This particular track stands as the most suspenseful and frightening in the entire game. I'd even argue that Regenerators are the scariest enemies in the entire series. The paranoid intensity of this ambiance only serves to support this. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to investigate the hyperventilating coming from around the cor

Anglerbe's Soundtrack of the Week

Resident Evil Code: Veronica

Cliff Hanger

Resident Evil in general has a very memorable and excellent soundtrack, but this track, despite it's short length, is one of the most addictive, at least for me. Code Veronica is quite possibly the most cinematic Resident Evil game currently in existence (that actually deserves its title, anyway), and that epic tone is echoed in this theme. After losing hope with Steve and Claire, it re-instills you with the notion that you still have a fighting chance, as Chris is on his way. I think this was a great way to go about this transition. You really feel like a hero scaling a cliff, here to kick a*$ and save the day. Now we just need somebody to loop it for 10 hours or so...

Anglerbe's Soundtrack of the Week

I got the memo for posting extended Resident Evil soundtracks.
Resident Evil 2

Wreckage of the Mad Experiment
 This is an interesting track from RE2 for more reasons than one. Firstly, it only plays in one room, an experiment room that you can only access if you enter faked umbrella IDs as both characters in the laboratory. The room was apparently destroyed by an escaped creature (hence the name of the track). Whether this creature was William Birkin or something else, I am not certain. Another interesting  fact is that this track was later remixed to create Wesker's theme in Umbrella Chronicles. Regarding qualities, the track has a very ominous mood, in such a way that it prompts the listener to wonder what exactly took place here.

Anglerte's Soundtrack of the Week

This selfless person was generous enough to share an hour long version of this piece with the world. I find it difficult to narrow my list of favorite Resident Evil safe room themes down to one or two items, but I have to say, thanks to several influential factors (and this soundtrack is one of them), Code Veronica (X, if it makes a huge difference) is probably my second favorite RE, while the rest of 0-3 tie for third. Every aspect of 5 should be renamed to something unrelated to "Resident Evil", and 6 can pretty much burn. I haven't played Revelations yet, but we'll most likely be purchasing it for the Nintendo Wii U. Anyway, more relevant to this specific soundtrack, it basically translates the game's underlying theme into musical form; you're starting to get somewhere (granted, somewhere overwhelming, mysterious, unsettling and presumably horrifying in almost every aspect), but you've a long way to go before the full truth is uncovered, and it seems that new darkness is born every second that passes. For now, there is safety, time for reflection; but how long may that last?

10 Game Series that Went Down Hill

This list has been drafted to celebrate the release of Resident Evil 6. Before starting to read this list, let me confirm your presumptions; yes many of Capcom's games will be featured on this list. Because some of the items are on this list for apparent reasons, I'll try to keep the descriptions fairly short. Enjoy! (Note: I will be blaming the downfall of many of these once at least half-way decent game series on the mysteriously popular and very over-hyped games in the generic-shooter genre that currently seems to be one of the most popular (Yes, that does mean Call of Duty and Battlefield, thank you for asking). )

1. Resident Evil- While Resident Evil 4 was a revolutionary change for some RE fans, others didn't care to much for the new style. However, Resident Evil 4 stuck at least somewhat closely to the routes of the series. With the disappointing arrivals of RE 5 and  the recently released RE 6, both of which drained every decent element of the series dry (mostly due to the fact that they attempted to steer the game in a completely new direction, but turned too hard and drove off a cliff), I think it's safe to assume that Capcom used kerosine on this series.

2. Cabela's Big Game Hunter- Another game that left its routes (in this case, a hunting game, where you HUNT for your prey in medium-relatively large locations), tried to become a generic Call of Duty-like action shooter, and failed miserably.

3. Call of Juarez- Another game that left its routes (in this case, a western-fps, where you travel through various western environments and engage in various non-generic "missions" that are actually somewhat interesting), tried to become a generic modern, extremely mature, inappropriate, vulgar, and uninteresting Call of Duty-like shooter, and failed miserably.

4. Dino Crisis- It's like Resident Evil with dinosaurs. This includes that downfall of Resident Evil.

5. Devil May Cry- Honestly, has anything every gone wrong when Capcom tried to take a series that Shinji Mikami started and changed it to suit their own tastes? Of course not, so why not leap at the next opportunity to totally destroy and redo a series that no one wants to see recreated? Sure they could just try to make a decent sequel, but, with all this reputation, why even bother?

6. Lost Planet- I personally enjoyed what little of the first game I played; the idea seems fairly unique (at least to some degree), and everything seemed at least some-what cool, be it the gameplay, the design, the graphics, etc.. Then, all of that was dropped in the shredder, courtesy of Capcom. :)

7. Hunting Unlimited- While the series did adopt the tactic that Call of Duty has made popular, releasing a game every year and making very few changes/ inhancements, at least the game's formula worked. With the release of Hunting Unlimited 2011, it's probably safe to assume that this series took a heart shot.

8. Dangerous Hunts- Another game that left its routes (in this case, a survival, mission based hunting game) and became, at least after the second game, a generic shooter that tells a boring story and offers very little entertainment, mostly due to the lack of elements that made the first one (and in some ways, the second) so great: hunting, fear, suspense, action in mild doses, mystery, etc. Let's blame Call of Duty for this one.

9:  Metal of Honor- Same old Call of Duty story.

10: Ratchet and Clank- To be honest I've never played this one, but Porpoisemonkey recommended it for this list, so I'll just assume it belongs here.

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