Product Description: A rookie cop and a resourceful young woman in search of her brother venture into Raccoon City on the very night that a horrifying viral outbreak has transformed every man, woman, and child into one of the living dead.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Great reading for my teenage son
I've never read them, but I love the Resident Evil series. My son teenage son does not like to read, or, at least, I can't get him to read anything. And then I found these books. Something he can read and enjoy, and it's meant the world to me. I've been buying all of the books in the series just because I've finally found something her can read and enjoy.
Rating: - A great read
Like The Umbrella Conspiracy, Perry did a fantastic job with City of the Dead. City of the Dead is based on the video game Resident Evil 2.
Of the books Perry written on Resident Evil, City of the Dead is probably the most detailed and longest. I literally could not stop reading City of the Dead. Page after page, the suspense and action was non-stop. One of Perry's big plus with this book is character development. You really felt and understood all of the characters - Leon, Claire, Ada, Sherry, Irons, the Birkins, and everyone else. Perry did a wonderful job in presenting all of the characters without confusing the readers. Many times in the book, the plot switches between Leon and Ada to Claire and Sherry. Normally, that would be messy and confusing, but Perry really did a thorough job in keeping the flow while telling two different aspects of the story.
Another positive point about this book is Perry didn't get into unneeded details. In The Umbrella Conspiracy, I felt Perry trailed off a lot with details of puzzles. In City of the Dead, Perry stepped away from that approach, and instead concentrated on key details of the plot, characters, and environment.
I highly recommend this book to any Resident Evil fan.
Rating: - The best of the entire series
When it came to votes on forums, the game version (Resident Evil 2) is one of the best when it came to game play (not counting Resident Evil 4). The book version is the same.
Rating: - It's ok
The book started off great,and really pulled me in.Towards the end though there was too much switching back and forth between stories and I lost intrest.Worth reading though if you like the series.
Rating: - One of the few good video game novelization
I've never really played any of the games, but i just got this book a few months ago and was really impressed. This is the fourth novel based on a video game I've read, the previous three being the first three Halo books. Perry does a great job with showing the imagery of a city overrun and the rush to sive lives. Perry also shows the dilemmas in the minds of the main characters.
I recommend this novel for fans of zombie books or fans of video game novels.
- Great reading for my teenage son
- A great read
- It's ok
