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By Sterling McGarvey published 13 April 2012

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Relive the horror

Relive the horror

With the Wii hitting its last legs, many publishers have taken one of the genres that benefitted most from the new hardware the on-rails shooterand translated those Nintendo-driven hits to Sonys Move hardware. Capcom has taken a queue from Segas ports of House of the Dead and brought its Resident Evil light-gun games to Move. We got hands-on with the first levels of both games at Captivate.

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A recap for the unintiated...

A recap for the unintiated...

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How does it handle?

How does it handle?

Our session with The Umbrella Chronicles went smoothly. Capcom provided us with Sonys Move Shooter peripheral to play the game. It felt intuitive to use, and in co-op, it works well, as we used the Move button to slash our knife and stave off enemies. Shooting works quite simply and easily.

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What did we see?

What did we see?

We played through a train section of Resident Evil 0, in which Rebecca and Billy fight through leech creatures. All of the trappings of light-gun shooters (shake the peripheral to reload, shoot items to add them to your inventory) are intact.

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In case you missed the second one...

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It's still a work in progress...

The build of Darkside Chronicles indicated that the HD Chronicles are still a work in progress. While its visually in great shape, its still being tested out, and we encountered some bugs involving the Move hardware. Do we expect that to be a problem at its June launch? Not really. We just hope that we can try out another update thats a little more stable.

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To sum it all up...

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