Review – Resident Evil Degeneration (iPhone)

I jumped onto Gizmodo about an hour ago to be instantly angered about the reveal of the Zune phone rumors being a big joke created by an Apple fanboy. Then i realized, Who needs a ZunePhone (ZPhone? Phune?) when i have a soon to be old iPhone 3G, especially when Resident Evil Degeneration has just been released!

General idea here is an iphone version of a game previously released on the N-Gage (yes, it wasn’t a nightmare, they were real.). The plot is paper thin. Even when compared to the movies already light story, it comes down to: You are Leon S Kennedy. You kill zombies. You kill zombies in airport. Though the plot, or rather lack thereof, can be easily forgiven, as it is a 9MB iPhone game. However, because of the fact that it is an iPhone game, the controls are iffy. By far the best Ive experienced in any off rails shooter on the platform, but if your used to other RE games, ditch the default inverted Y-Axis, because when the zombie flight attendents come knockin, the backwards controls…just plain suck. Bottom line here is that it is an iPhone game. Its a Resident Evil game. Those two together sound scary, but the game is good. Rather or not you believe it to be worth the 7.99 it costs is up to what you think iPhone games in general are worth. However the enjoyment is here. The game is worth the buy, but real RE fans will likely already have it by the time they get around to reviews.