Resident Evil 3 Remake review: Are we ready for pandemic nostalgia?

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  The Resident Evil series' Nemesis creature. Just what we need during these dark times. [credit: Capcom ]

A few months ago, Resident Evil 3 Remake sounded like a slam-dunk idea for a good video game. Take everything that made last year's Resident Evil 2 Remake a gorgeous, haunting surprise, then sprinkle a dash of RE3's exclusive, terrifying "Nemesis" character into the formula.

Of course, nobody could have predicted how on the nose RE3's plot, derived from the 1998 PlayStation 1 original, would feel at the dawn of spring 2020. As in: prior games' viral zombie outbreaks, which were mostly contained inside of classic environments like mansions and police stations, explode into the streets. A city panics. A government responds.

Hmm.

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