I was looking forward to playing this game after playing the remake of resident evil on the game cube but when i played it I thought that it took a step backwards.
Yes you could control 2 people at once and they did away with the item boxes allowing you to drop items.

The problem I had with this game was the cut scenes, in the resi 1 remake the cut scenes were rendered in game which went some way to keep me involved with the game as the graphics were the same.  With zero the cut scenes were FMV and not good FMV either it destroyed my involvement with the game as the pause in play while the scenes loaded it was like going back to playing it on the ps1.  I think the main problem with this game is that it was originally an N64 game and when porting it to the game cube they forgot to do something about the cut scenes.

I also found the story dull but I'll save that for now

Resident Evil Zero is just more Resident Evil. Item Boxes didn't make a whole bunch of sense, that's why they dropped the concept. Putting stuff in one box, and it magically being in another box across the country.

well it DID go back in numbering instead of forward, so sure, you could say that.

I agree, the game does have some jarring transitions between the FMV and the gameplay but I think the game itself is incredible.

How very thread necromantic of you, birdflu, but I just had to comment because strangely enough I'm playing through this game right now. I'm loving it and it's my first classic style resident evil game I've played. I've only ever played 4 and 5. Strangley I think I might prefer this style.

" How very thread necromantic of you, birdflu, but I just had to comment because strangely enough I'm playing through this game right now. I'm loving it and it's my first classic style resident evil game I've played. I've only ever played 4 and 5. Strangley I think I might prefer this style. "

" @xyzygy said:

" How very thread necromantic of you, birdflu, but I just had to comment because strangely enough I'm playing through this game right now. I'm loving it and it's my first classic style resident evil game I've played. I've only ever played 4 and 5. Strangley I think I might prefer this style. "

The Resident Evil remake will blow your mind if you're enjoying Zero. It's pretty much amazing all around. "

" @Melvargh said:

" @xyzygy said:

" How very thread necromantic of you, birdflu, but I just had to comment because strangely enough I'm playing through this game right now. I'm loving it and it's my first classic style resident evil game I've played. I've only ever played 4 and 5. Strangley I think I might prefer this style. "

The Resident Evil remake will blow your mind if you're enjoying Zero. It's pretty much amazing all around. "

Sweet, good to know! How are the RE2 and 3 remakes on the gamecube? "

Boooo! Code Veronica was awesome. 

I derived no enjoyment from this game.  But thats true for all pre-RE4 RE games.

I really liked RE0, even though I played REmake first and a few things didn't quite make sense canonically. Being able to leave items anywhere was good at some points and poor at others (grappling hook, anyone?). I don't remember having too much of a problem with the cutscenes though.

Funny this topic should come up now. I've been on a Resident Evil kick lately, just re-bought the remake and RE0. It's been several years, looking forward to playing them all again. I'm currently going through RE2.

I'm going back to try to finish it now, since I just finished REmake and it's awesome.