So there goes one reason to play the game. Except for one single moment – anyone that’s played the game will know what it is – the game doesn’t even attempt to be scary, which is absolutely on purpose as Capcom mentioned that people found Resident Evil 7 too scary and so they toned things down.

The main problem is that rather than being a survival horror Resident Evil Village is really just a first person shooter, a really slow-paced, extremely easy first person shooter with only a handful of different monsters. Except, because it’s an unthinking computer with not an ounce of artistic talent, it just came up with a faded copy that doesn’t understand any of the reasons that the originals were so good. Village feels like the sort of sequel that an AI might generate if you plugged in all the features of the series and told it to concentrate on Resident Evil 4 for the tone and setting. It may not be some kind of Cyberpunk 2077 style disaster, but it’s so completely lacking in imagination, variety, and scares that I consider it the most disappointing game of the year. Although compared to Resident Evil Village it’s an all-time classic.īut I am here today to argue that Resident Evil Village is objectively the worst game on the list.

Deathloop and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart definitely don’t deserve to be there, and while Psychonauts 2 is quite good overall it doesn’t play well at all and is hardly the best of the best of anything. 2021 may not have been a classic year for games, thanks to the pandemic, but the list of games in contention are very far from the best we’ve had in the last 12 months. The one award that is given proper attention is the Game of the Year one, which is what I really want to write about today. Especially as everyone’s only there for the trailers and yet the majority of those are nothing more than a logo and a bit of CGI. It’s so American I’m surprised it hasn’t got bald eagles flying around the auditorium and it’s one of the most crass examples of vapid consumerism I’ve ever seen. And what is The Game Awards? It’s a gaudy advertising event for future games, where half the awards aren’t even announced onscreen and 90% of the others are revealed as quickly as possible so that they can get onto the next advert.

Resident evil 4 poster