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Frantic, Flawed, and Still Fun
dbarry_22 - wrote on 07/06/2012
Even though it has several flaws, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D has enough in its arsenal for fans of the series to have a lot of fun. This game brings a fast paced, kill as many zombies as you can before the time runs out mentality to stages from Resident Evil 4 and 5. There's no story, no real objective to complete, just pick a stage and rack up the points.
Depending on the stage, the amount of points scored determines what rank you obtain. That's pretty much the only motivation you have to do well, trying to get a 'S' on a particular stage. Unfortunately, in order to score extremely high, it takes a specific strategy. Whenever you kill a zombie using a melee attack, you gain 5 seconds more to kill more and more zombies. The game ends up being how fast you take out your …
