Resident Evil 6 for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

After (finally) toiling through the final campaign and messing around with a new game mode, I can say that this is one of the finer co-op games to be released in this year.

With seven playable characters and a story that integrates through four five-chapter campaigns, Resident Evil 6 looks perfect on paper. Though the "OMG" moments are more action than horror these days, RE6 still manages to get the blood pumping. The inventory system is a little clunky, but a little improved over 5's, and you no longer have to share ammo or item drops with your partner. Even so, especially in Leon's campaign, the chapters can really drag on and checkpoints aren't as close together as I would have liked.

The co-op really stands out in this game. Your partner can join in with you over XBox Live if you don't have one sitting next to you already, and if that weren't enough, the seven playable characters overlap at certain points in the story, meaning three to four people at once are playing in your story at the same time.

If there are any cons to find with RE6 (other than that logo... what's up with that?), it could be that there's just so much going on with so many characters that it's tough to keep up; almost as if Capcom couldn't decide which story elements worked best, so they threw it all in. This is only a minor complaint, though, as when the story DOES finally work, it works beautifully.

When you're done splashing around in the campaign, two extra modes should keep you occupied for awhile longer: Agent Hunt and The Mercenaries. The latter should be familiar to fans of the RE franchise, but Agent Hunt is a new mode that introduces some competition and danger. In this mode, you get to join someone else's game as a zombie or j'avo and attempt to kill the player. In most cases, the player(s) have a humongous advantage just in mobility, but finally getting a kill on another player and impeding their progress is fulfilling and just plain fun.