Resident Evil: Degeneration is a movie based on the characters from Resident Evil II. For people who have never played the game, they won’t get the same appreciation for this movie as the people who played this game, or other Resident Evil games. Every time I saw Leon or Claire jump on the scene, I was roaring and hollering because I loved them. Out of all the Resident Evil characters, they were my favorites.

The plot is about a pharmaceutical company who starts developing the T-Virus, and some of the vials are taken by a terrorist group. As we all know, terrorist groups are irrational, so they start releasing the vials in different locations. Claire is visiting friends in India when one of the vials is released in the airport. The action scenes were amazing, and every time Claire and Leon went vigilante style on the zombies, I was screaming with excitement. I actually rewinded some of the parts a few time. It gave me such a feeling of nostalgia, and I felt like grabbing someone’s Playstation 2 and playing the game.

The only flaw was that they focused on a new female character more than they did on Claire. The chemistry between this character and Leon didn’t work, and I was a little annoyed that she got way more air time than the lead female protagonist Claire.

Other than that, the movie was great. As I said in the beginning, I can see people who have never played the Resident Evil games to really not care or get this movie. Therefore, I say that this movie is definitely more for the gamer who has followed this great series.

Resident Evil: Degeneration is a movie based on the characters from Resident Evil II. For people who have never played the game, they won’t get the same appreciation for this movie as the people who played this game, or other Resident Evil games. Every time I saw Leon or Claire jump on the scene, I was roaring and hollering because I loved them. Out of all the Resident Evil characters, they were my favorites.

The plot is about a pharmaceutical company who starts developing the T-Virus, and some of the vials are taken by a terrorist group. As we all know, terrorist groups are irrational, so they start releasing the vials in different locations. Claire is visiting friends in India when one of the vials is released in the airport. The action scenes were amazing, and every time Claire and Leon went vigilante style on the zombies, I was screaming with excitement. I actually rewinded some of the parts a few time. It gave me such a feeling of nostalgia, and I felt like grabbing someone’s Playstation 2 and playing the game.

The only flaw was that they focused on a new female character more than they did on Claire. The chemistry between this character and Leon didn’t work, and I was a little annoyed that she got way more air time than the lead female protagonist Claire.

Other than that, the movie was great. As I said in the beginning, I can see people who have never played the Resident Evil games to really not care or get this movie. Therefore, I say that this movie is definitely more for the gamer who has followed this great series.

Don’t get this Resident Evil movie confused with the Paul W.S. Anderson produced series starring Milla Jovovich. This here is the genuine Capcom franchise, complete with some familiar faces to fans of the video games. So already you know it’s got to be a hell of a lot better, right? Well, sort of.

When it comes to giving fans what they love, Degeneration definitely makes a better attempt to deliver than Anderson’s trilogy. Staying true to the series, the film actually takes place in the world of the games – presumably between Resident Evil 4 and the upcoming Resident Evil 5, and seven years after the events of Resident Evil 2. That’s always a good start, unlike what Square tried to do with Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Stylistically, it makes more sense to make a CGI film based on the franchise, especially when attempting to differentiate from the (horrible) live action ones. That being said, I was actually disappointed with how the film itself looks. Compared to how good RE5 looks, Degeneration feels more like a one and a half-hour long cut scene from a last-generation game. After awhile it’s bearable, but at first it was overly noticeable. Again, not as bad as the live action trilogy.

Another gripe I had was the often wooden voice acting, which was often bogged down by cheesy one-liners and too much exposition. Instead of acting showing additional scenes – which they seem to do for other, less important scenes surprisingly enough – characters tend to talk and talk about certain things that have little bearing on the actual plot. Guess I should have figured, being a Japanese-made film and all. I’m wondering if the Japanese voice acting is any better though.

Overall though I kind of enjoyed Degeneration. It’s a bit like Dead Space: Downfall in a way – an animated adaptation of a game meant to appeal to fans of the series (in Dead Space’s case to help market the game) rather than be a real work of art on its own. It wasn’t a bad experience though, and I’d honestly like to see more films like this in the future. Having decent CGI films made by the actual producers of the games are better than shoddily made live action adaptations made by people who’ve probably never even played them before. You go, Capcom.