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Resident Evil: Deadly Silence
- Nintendo DS
- Price: $34.99
- Genre: Third-person shooter
Common Sense Media says
Same gore and quirks as original -- adults only.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this is a remake of a survival horror classic game, and that it brings all the gore of the original to the DS. Players shoot, stab, incinerate, decapitate, and otherwise destroy scores of monsters. The monsters slash, vomit on, and devour humans. Players will see graphic gore, including partially eaten bodies and wounds that ooze blood. Some knifing action takes place from a first-person perspective.
What's it about?
RESIDENT EVIL: DEADLY SILENCE, a remake of a PlayStation title, is the first Mature-rated game for Nintendo's DS system. An elite police squad is sent to a seemingly abandoned mansion to investigate the disappearance of other members of the team. Before long, the team is blasting zombies, demon dogs, spiders, crows, giant snakes, and a variety of other mutant monsters as they piece together a story of secret experiments gone horribly wrong.
On DS, the action plays out on the touch screen and the upper screen displays a map. A new "Rebirth" mode puts the features of the DS to use: Players solve puzzles using the system's touch-screen and microphone. They also engage in some fun first-person battles in which they must knife monsters to death with swipes of the stylus. (Players can also play a "Classic" mode, which is very close to the PlayStation original, without touch-screen interaction.)
Is it any good?
The zombie killing action gets intense and exciting at times, but this version only half-heartedly updates the 10-year-old gameplay and lacks the truly creepy atmosphere of newer installments. At its heart, this version is like the original. It's still one lightly armed cop against an army of mutants -- and beasts could be lurking around any corner. The violence is still intense: Players blow off zombie heads with guns, incinerate mutants with flame grenades, knife sharks to death, etc.
Players also run into familiar frustrations, such as clunky controls and odd camera angles. Nevertheless, there is a reason the Resident Evil series is legendary, and mature fans of the original will probably enjoy the remake.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the role of gore in horror games. Do games need to be gory to be scary? Families may also want to discuss violence against monsters and violence against humans. Is violence more acceptable when it's directed at fantastic creatures instead of people?
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I lost six brain cells reading this
The game is good for ages maybe 10 up to 100. The language isn't that bad (not as bad as Call of Duty 4)the sexual content is not an issue and the blood and gore just remind your kids its fake (the game) and that if someone got hurt there that could happen. Also the drugs they should know smoking is bad and the beer and drinking they see that on tv (commercials for bud light.
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IT RULES
I love resident evil i think it shout be T no M and more like 14+!
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good
i liked how there was some blood but not too much u have to get this game!
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I loved it !
It has lot of little puzzles and take advantage of the DS's ablitys ! and a good game plot !
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Talking about the good points
The good points:
Yes this game involves fighting through rooms with one to four zombies in them but it is not as much shooting violence as one would think. Much of this game is very puzzle orientated involving thinking not just blasting through killing all the zombies in site (like most of todays video games excluding resident evil up to RE5) and in the rebirth mode (exclusive to the ds version) all though there is more action there is also more puzzles to compensate. Also many of the character's are good role model's who try to assist as many of the people as possible and they are police. However there are also some characters that as the game progresses become evil. There is very very little language but now lets get down to...
The Bad Points:
I hope this section is noticeably shorter and now we can talk about why this game is bad. In cutscenes some bloody scenes are shown but in game the blood although noticeable is so restricted by graphics that it is taken out as a factor because it serves more as a reminder that this game is not a real thing. There is head shots which will make the head of a zombie just magically disappear so its ot that bad because all you see is a headless zombie. And if you are still concerned with blood as a parent you can change the color f it to red blue or green. So that is the extent of violence in this game as well as blood in an indeoth review and i hope this helped.
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| Platforms: | Nintendo DS |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Third-person shooter |
| Developer: | Capcom |
| Release date: | February 27, 2006 |
| Price: | $34.99 |
| ESRB rating: | M for Blood and gore, Intense violence |
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