While Lost in Nightmare fails to instil the kind of dread and tension like the original Resident Evil game it can be of good value to those who want learn more about the origin story or to those who want to relive the past in full HD glory
Capcom recently released the Gold edition of Resident Evil 5 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and keeping with the tradition, it has the original game plus a bunch of additional content. While we did not get our hands on the complete pack, we did get to sample one of the bonus episodes from the pack, called Lost in Nightmare. The Gold edition contains another bonus episode called Desperate Escape, four new costumes and eight new playable characters with new weapons, as part of a revamped multiplayer mode called Mercenaries Reunion.
Extending Evil
The two additional episodes allow one to play through parts of the main storyline which were only available as cut-scenes in the original game. “Lost in Nightmare” takes the player way back to the time of the original Resident Evil, when Jill and Chris make their way into the infamous Spencer Mansion.
The first few minutes of this episode is spent exploring the upper levels of the mansion where the player is made privy to the game’s back-story through a series of scattered journal entries. Eventually, the duo finds themselves in the lower levels of the mansion where they are stalked by some badass enemies. The main objective here is to lure one of the larger enemies into a trap, which not only gets rid of the monster, but also gives you a piece of the puzzle that is necessary to progress. This process needs to be repeated a few times till you get all the pieces of the puzzles and in all honesty, it gets fairly annoying towards the end.
After gathering all the pieces, it’s off to an encounter with Wesker, in what appears to be the mansion’s library. Wesker is incredibly quick and his attacks cause a lot of hurt. The key to “defeating” Wesker is to constantly dodge his attacks and then move in for a cheap shot when he is dazed. Compared with other encounter in the game, this one requires a fair amount of patience and persistence.
After landing enough blows on Wesker, the game plays the concluding cut-scene and we all know how that ends. After beating the episode once, Jill Valentine becomes playable for subsequent play-through. Lost in Nightmare fails to instil the kind of dread and tension like the original Resident Evil game did. However, the episode can be of good value to those who want learn more about the origin story or to those who want to relive the past in full HD glory.
Rating: 7.0/10
Details
Genre: Action, Survival Horror
Studio: Capcom
Publishers: Capcom
Distributor: Milestone Interactive Software
Platform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Price [Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition]
PlayStation 3: INR 2,499 (All additional content available on the disc)
Xbox 360: INR 2,499 (New content needs to be downloaded)