Spin-offs, as a general rule, aren\u2019t very good. Unfortunately, the reviews out of the gate seem to indicate that Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City won\u2019t be the exception.<\/p>\n
Slant Six, the Canadian developer responsible for the game, has taken the time to respond to the somewhat lackluster reception.<\/p>\n
Talking to Eurogamer, producer Mike Kerr said that although the scores are disappointing, he still feels that the studio accomplished the things Capcom wanted them to.<\/p>\n
“It’s challenging. A lot of people put a lot of time and effort into the game and obviously we’d like to see the review scores be a little better than they are right now.”<\/p>\n
“In the end, I think our position on it is that we read every review and we try to pull out all the constructive feedback that we can so we can learn a little about what people liked and what they didn’t.”<\/p>\n
“Then we look to what our internal goals were and what Capcom asked us to do and I think we accomplished what they wanted to do – we took the Resident Evil franchise in a different direction,” he continued.<\/p>\n
“And we’ve had a lot of really positive feedback from fans of the franchise – we’re getting a lot of positive email.”<\/p>\n
“So, there’s good and bad, but that’s to be expected with every launch. We’d obviously love the review scores to be a bit higher, but we’re really happy with the fan response.”<\/p>\n
Kerr elaborated on the difficulty of having to jump right into a well-established IP, but does say he enjoyed working with a big publisher like Capcom.<\/p>\n
“There’s always a challenge to picking up a new IP or an existing IP, especially one that is so ingrained in the industry and one that has exclusively been produced internally by a big publisher like Capcom,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“But we enjoyed the entire experience – it’s been really, really good working with Capcom. They’ve been great to us and allowed us to express our own creativity within their franchise, which is great.<\/p>\n
“As with any new publisher, it always takes a project cycle to get the communication pathways down, so there’s definitely challenges there, but overall we’re very happy with the experience we had with them.”<\/p>\n
Have you played Operation Raccoon City? Let us know your experience in the comments.<\/p>\n