Sequences are occasionally shot in unrealistically steady first-person. Leon goes into a soliloquy about how to conserve ammo by going for head shots on zombies. There's a bit too much self-referential foolishness. Kohler: The fact that I kept thinking that we were watching a videogame play itself wasn't just because of the game-quality animation or the thin plot. The storytelling was not good enough to hold my interest. As someone who's just casually interested in Resident Evil games, I found Degeneration's plot to be entirely insubstantial, a paper-thin excuse to shoot grotesque zombies. The plot follows characters from the games, Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield, as they attempt to put down yet another outbreak of a manufactured virus that turns people into zombies. Kohler: I suppose it does do that - the plot of the film leads directly to Resident Evil 5, so die-hard fans will likely scrutinize every last detail.

After all, that's one of the selling points of this movie - that it ties directly into the plot of the games while the live-action films do not. Snow: Regardless of what it looks like, the main question that fans will have is how this film advances the story line of the *Resident Evil *universe. It's not simply that they're not detailed - they don't move realistically, and the lip-syncing isn't that hot either. Kohler: Yeah, I don't know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't the same kind of plasticky, unrealistic digital actors that populate every next-gen videogame on the Tokyo Game Show floor.

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