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Yes, the mechanics are the same as the base RE5 experience, which means you still can’t move and shoot and you are still stuck with an annoyingly dimwitted AI companion by your side. Lost in Nightmares is a true return to the series’ origins in the survival-horror genre. As you walk about the mansion, you will be swept away by a nostalgic sense of familiarity, yet at the same time still feel like you are exploring uncharted territory – and there really is new territory to see as the chapter unfolds, including a decrepit prison area below the mansion.
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The first thing you’ll notice in Lost in Nightmares is the striking resemblance Spencer Estate bears to the Raccoon City mansion from the original Resident Evil, from the open main hall to the dining room to the narrow winding hallway where the dogs crashed through the windows as the original’s first real jump-out-of-your-seat scare moment. Lost in Nightmares chronicles the events leading up to this fateful confrontation, putting you in control of Chris and Jill as they explore Spencer Estate before their encounter with Wesker.
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If you’ve played through the RE5 storyline, you should remember the flashback sequence to the night when Chris and Jill take on Wesker at Spencer Estate, a fight ending in what Chris thought was Jill’s demise as she and Wesker crashed through a window and fell into the darkness below. However, with Lost in Nightmares, the first of two downloadable “lost chapters” in the RE5 storyline, Capcom takes us on a brief trip back in time to when Resident Evil was still about survival-horror, and although to some it may come across as a painful tease of what RE5 could have been had it stuck to the series’ roots, it is an exciting tease nonetheless.
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Resident Evil 5 is an awesome game, but for those of us who have followed the series since the beginning it is simultaneously disappointing in many ways because it simply isn’t a survival-horror game, it’s more of a clumsy attempt at a fusion of traditional Resident Evil concepts with the action-oriented mentality of Gears of War.