Resident Evil Revelations 2 Reviews

I recently had the opportunity to play this title at a friend’s home. While it initially appeared promising, several aspects left me disappointed. Key Issues: Poor companion AI: Partner characters with firearms will fail to engage enemies, sometimes even positioning themselves between the player and the threat, resulting in unnecessary damage. Excessive difficulty: This is among the most challenging Resident Evil games I’ve played, despite having completed nearly every main entry (excluding mobile/handheld titles). Many hazards are effectively “trial-and-error” death traps, requiring prior knowledge to avoid. Ammunition for boss encounters is scarce, and certain enemies can perform instant-kill attacks. Unresolved narrative threads: The story leaves many questions unanswered, seemingly encouraging multiple playthroughs for clarity. However, the overall experience does not justify replaying. Spoiler Warning The storyline feels weak and disconnected, particularly in its attempt to link Resident Evil 5 and Wesker. These connections are poorly executed and lack coherence. Certain characters—most notably Moira—are frustratingly written, making them among the least likable in the series. While there are unlockable items such as Claire’s classic outfit, a katana, and a bowgun, obtaining them requires replaying the game. Moreover, the bowgun cannot be used to unlock the katana due to S-rank restrictions, reducing incentive for completionists. Conclusion: I cannot recommend this game. It suffers from subpar writing, frustrating design choices, and gameplay elements that hinder enjoyment rather than enhance it.

Неиграбельно, по сравнению с первой частью это позор, ресурс менеджмента просто нету, застрял буквально в начале прохождения из за того, что патронов на локации просто нету, хоть лутал я всё до чего мои руки могли дотянутся, но вместо патронов я лутал мерзкие и ненужные в этот момент прохождения гемы. Здравого смысла тоже в этой игре нету, бегая по локации в поисках патронов, пробегаю одну часть локации, и когда возвращаюсь в отчаянии без найденных патронов, в месте где я УЖЕ пробегал, только ранее в другую сторону, запускается скрипт и спавнится гидроцефал высасывающий из меня в последствии последние патроны, когда я ничего как игрок фактически и не делал что бы меня наказывать за неверное действие. Управление на клава-мыши просто мерзотное, добрая треть горячих клавиш не переназначить, сиди и терпи с тем что разработчики за тебя выставили. Ещё, почему то 1 часть выглядит графически даже лучше из за отсутствия мерзкого мыла которое здесь есть даже в ВОЗДУХЕ. Ещё хочу заметить что концептуально игра всё же хороша, много чего нового по сравнению с первой частью было добавлено, фонарь вместо сканера и для поиска лута теперь нужно вглядываться в местность? Да это же бред как круто! Когда в первой части напарник был рудиментом кормящим вас экспозицией, здесь он имеет практическую ценность, он доп. инвентарь и хранитель инструментов. Ещё много чего хорошего начиная от визуала, заканчивая возросшей динамикой, но я просто не могу представить как в это играть после 1 части, всё что было в 1 части хорошо, здесь жёстко проседает, и я не смог этого вытерпеть, учитывая то что играть просто неприятно, на клавиатуре как минимум

Need to use a remote share play app outside of steam (like parsec). Played splitscreen this way with a friend and it was okay overall (6/10). Unique asymmetrical co op is a plus, and would rate it higher if you have a second player that isn't as good at games (player 1 does the shooting and fighting). Would recommend resident evil 5 & 6 over this as the game play is much better. But if you've already played those then this would be a good purchase for you. About 8 hours overall for the campaign + dozens more hours if you enjoy grinding the raid mode. Final chapter is a bit BS in some difficulty choices (you get infinite lives, just a lower score when you die) Giving it a no due to it being worse than the older titles, even though it tried something new. It also requires a program outside of steam to be able to play the feature it lists (shared/split screen). Would give it it a mixed rating or a weak yes instead if possible

For a sequel to a 3DS game, it's got a pretty interesting story and engaging gameplay. Even though the way it's shifted from previous titles isn't really my cup of tea, it was still enjoyable. Probably only worth experiencing if you're a lore junkie like myself, but even then, it's probably not worth 100%'ing. I'm definitely not going to.

I enjoyed this game, and would recommend that any RE fan should play it. However, if you are new to the franchise, stay away, since this game is really bloody weird.

The only reason I bought this game was to play it with a friend. Spent more than a hour in the game only trying to join each other and still didn't succeed

nice game, is part of resident evil series, but is kinda buggy and the bad think is the partner mecanic, but in overall is a good game to play

Resident Evil Revelations 2... The story begins and it seems relatively interesting, however within each chapter the tones shift quite quickly, Such as getting to the end to finally confront Alex and it's over within minutes, not even a fight, I found this so disappointing. So the story is interesting to say the least, It's episodic again which I feel on release it worked because you were slowly working your way through a episode, learning it, perfecting it and doing all the grindy stuff like all the difficulties/Invis and Countdown modes. However playing 12 years after release all episodes are available and doing all of that feels like a huge grind. I do like how the story is told via 2 perspectives and it makes you feel like Barry is just 1 step behind most of the story until the tone shifts. Gameplay is probably the strongest point of Rev 2, the guns are all impactful in their own ways subweapons are useful and are bottles this time around which I like as it signifies the Russian aspect of the game I find. The fluidity of the combat is what I like most about the Revelations games, they tried something new for the action genre and it worked and it wasn't bloated like how 6 is with too many things to do with the controls. Enemies are quite diverse, not overly however such as the afflicted and rotten they may aswell be the same thing, they're both useless enemies that don't do much. Revenants are the most unique enemies in the way you have to find the weakness using Natalia and then switching back to Barry to target the weakpoint, or r brute force it and shred them limb by limb. Other than that the enemies aren't all that diverse and most of the others are basically Left4Dead rip offs. Boss fights are lacking also there are only 2 that I can think of in the whole of the Game and that is Neil and Alex and they're both super shit fights, all you have to do is walk backwards and shoot, when they raise and arm or go to swing dodge backwards and woop you've won. Environments in the game are good however I feel like there's no real continuity to them for example in Ep1 you use the same facility and radio tower and go different ways as the 2 characters which is good and at the end they meet and end in the same place, the same goes for episode 2. Episode 3 this pattern changes and Claire goes to a factory/sewer whilst Barry goes Sewer/Abandoned mine and so on they then go separate ways and the storyline seems to shift objectively at that point. The achievements are the worst I have ever seen in a Resi game, this is one way to make you hate a Game by making you have to play a chapter 10 times over until you have achieved all of the chapters medals, it seems almost impossible to get all 10 medals in one run you have to do them over multiple runs and you will get sick of the same areas, cutscenes and dialog. It wasn't a good idea only to then make it even worse by making you then have to run the game on a timer adding stress to the situation and most of the time the dialog scenes go off whilst the timer is still running causing you to walk towards a much needed hourglass and then when you get to it you aren't allowed to attack it because your in a dialog scene...not well thought out. Then to make it even even worse they added Invisible mode which I also believe is on Hard mode. Enemies are sponges, invisible and hit like fucking trucks, oh and they moved the spawns for enemies such as Glasps which OHKO you if you walk into them so they're always fun and they're much much faster in this mode forcing you to go so much slower... I love Rev2 and always have but the story mode has become so stale after running it countless times to get all the achievements. Raid mode is the best however I haven't touched it this time around as there isn't a need to do it. Overall Rev2 on release deserved a 8/10 for how well it played and brought back old characters and new gameplay elements, however in 2025 and after grinding the same story over and over i've gotta give it a 6/10 it get's so boring so repetitive and you can't skip almost anything to progress faster.

FYI, I'm currently playing all the Resident Evil titles on Steam in preparation for RE9 Requiem. I'd only recommend Resident Evil Revelations 1 if you're into that style of game. I'm not hugely into it, but I played it anyway for the story, less so for Raid Mode (which I might try someday). The story is average but improves towards the end. I think the main boss fights are quite good, as is their design. However, I don't think Revelations 2 is better than the first instalment. While the graphics and writing are improved, the execution wasn't as strong in my opinion. It's not a bad game, it's more like 'extra content' that isn't essential for understanding the RE lore. I'd say get it on sale, but not at full price.

I WANT A REVELATIONS 3, this game most definitely has it's up and downs, yes the game play and mechanics could be smoothed over and polish but i honestly think it's really an enjoyable game, and it honestly has it's own place in the RE universe <3, same with Revelations 1, the way they are able to play off the nostalgia of the RE games while still being it's own thing is impressive, and honestly i find the revelation games to be a refreshing take on the series, i hope capcom decide to give these games some more love bc i feel for them the way i do the main series <3