Since we inherently don’t have a body in VR, the devs have gone the extra mile and (along with the character’s hands, obviously) given each a unique HUD watch, each with a slightly different design and color scheme to match the character’s personality and costume pallet, as well as unique knives. This version features Leon, Ada, and Krauser from the campaign, as well as two guest characters: HUNK (from Resident Evil 2) and Albert Wesker, and they’ve all been translated to VR with their own charming little design quirks to make them recognizable. It’s fun and exhilarating, and following up on the objectively misnomered version in Resident Evil Village, it was an absolute joy to return to these classic rules in VR.
Chaining together kills multiplies your score, and bonus time can be found across the map to give you more breathing room to kill.
Selecting a Resident Evil hero or villain (each featuring a unique weapon set and melee moves) you’re tasked with surviving an endless horde of enemies against a limited timer. If you’re unfamiliar, The Mercenaries is perhaps Resident Evil‘s best-known bonus mode, included in some form in almost every numbered release in the series, and even taking on a life of its own in a few mobile/handheld spin-offs. While it would’ve been easy enough to just leave it at that, the team at Armature and Oculus Studios have gone above and beyond yet again to not only deliver one of the richest takes on the mode since 2011’s The Mercenaries 3D, but to offer a tremendous amount of brand new content never before seen in Resident Evil 4. Just like the main campaign, The Mercenaries is the original classic mode from 2005 (complete with all five characters and four maps) rebuilt entirely for VR. Well, that’s partially been taken care of now thanks to the release of The Mercenaries as a free DLC update! To be clear, the base package of just Resident Evil 4‘s original campaign but fully supported in VR is far and away worth it, it’s just a fact that it is missing the additional content from every other release of this classic. If there was any one genuine knock that could be made against it (aside from some very clunky censorship) it would be that it wasn’t feature complete. I’ve since put tons of additional hours into it after finishing my review, and it continues to be one of the best VR adventures around, not to mention quite possibly the best official remaster of any Resident Evil game to date. It’s been about half a year since the release of the, quite frankly, nigh-perfect Resident Evil 4 VR for Quest 2.
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