First take: Resident Evil 7 breathes new life into a dying franchise

Jan25

by Sindy Cator on January 25, 2017 at 1:45 am

You’d be forgiven if you were to assume Resident Evil 7 was worth skipping. Resident Evil 6, in my opinion, was a disaster that left hardcore fans of the survival horror series wondering if we’d seen its best days. The amalgamated blend of intense action scenes with never-ending firefights, driving sequences, and a convoluted storyline that saw seven protagonists weave a tangled web of intermingled plot lines was, to put it mildly, a departure. It’s not that the game was terrible, it’s just that Capcom proved definitively that bigger doesn’t always equal better. Resident Evil thrives on strategy and atmosphere, not over-the-top action…