resident evil: umbrella chronicles
Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles Ships A Million
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Since going on sale last fall, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles has shipped over a million copies. That’s worldwide. The rail shooter was developed by Bullet Witch developer Cavia and, well, Capcom. Folks sure love those Wii RE games, don’t they? Biohazard UC Shipped Numbers [Famitsu] More »
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Umbrella Chronicles Outsells Zack & Wiki 3:1, Tears Stream Down Our Faces
2:58PM Luke Plunkett | As part of their quarterly financial results, Capcom have announced sales figures for some of their more prominent titles from Q3 2007. Zack & Wiki included. Surprisingly, it managed to sell 300,000 copies; not much in the grand scheme of things, but for a puzzle game featuring new IP and no Western advertising? It did OK. Until, that is, you look at 10-hour snoozefest Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, and see it sold over 950,000 copies. That gasping, gurgling sound you hear behind you is the death of justice. Also revealed is the company’s hopes and dreams for Devil May Cry: they’re planning on shifting 1.9 million copies in the final quarter of the fiscal year, which multiplatform or not, is a big ask for a game pitched at a (relatively) niche, hardcore demographic. More »Zero Punctuation Takes on Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
7:40AM Mark Wilson | When Capcom released a rail shooter as their next installment to Resident Evil, it was almost asking for a once over by Zero Punctuation’s Ben Croshaw. All in all he’s pretty fair to the game and the concept, though thank goodness for black boxes covering cartoon privates. Favorite line (abridged): “Do you remember what those villains from Captain Planet were like, how they’d steal an oil tanker and deliberately crash smack into a beach just to teach the sea lions a lesson in complacency …well that’s basically the Umbrella Corporation.” Zero Punctuation: Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles [theescapist] More »
