Resident Evil has accumulated many titles in its franchise over the years. As a long-running series, Resident Evil games has been inconsistent in style, leading to a range of opinions from fans. While some fans thought that Capcom was losing its way in regards to the franchise, recent Resident Evil titles and remakes have pulled the games back into popularity.
[Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Resident Evil franchise's mainline games.]
Resident Evil is a survival-horror game that was first released by Capcom in 1996. The series started with the story of Spencer Mansion and Raccoon City, then branched out to more locations as games continued to be released. For awhile, fans felt like Resident Evil was moving too far from its core elements, but Capcom managed to return the franchise to its survival-horror roots, and it's begun to thrive once more.
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Just like how there are the worst Resident Evil monsters, the worst RE games players would be happy to never experience again. On the opposite end, there have been RE games that players would love to be able to forget just for the chance to experience them without knowledge of what happens again. From the worst to the best game in the franchise's mainline series, Capcom hasn't been afraid to take chances with RE. Sometimes those risks paid off, but other times, they didn't.
Capcom took a more action-oriented approach to Resident Evil 6, but the mesh of action and horror elements left the game in a position where it felt like it has an identity crisis. The environment and tone of each campaign being different doesn't help matters either. The story of RE6 also has a much larger scope than previous games,
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