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Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is an action-oriented title where players can choose any of eight playable characters to shoot, explode and melee their way through swarms of enemies. Featuring re-mastered…

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Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 2 June 2011 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2011. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is an action-oriented title where players can choose any of eight playable characters to shoot, explode and melee their way through swarms of enemies. Featuring re-mastered stages from Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5, the game is a race against time as players try to defeat as many enemies as possible before the countdown reaches zero. The experience is available both as solo and multiplayer, where gamers across the world can team up and enjoy two-player co-op.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Resident Evil series

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is the 68th of 190 entries we hold in the Resident Evil series. The next entry was Biohazard Revival Selection in 2011. Its critic score of 64 is 10 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Resident Evil 4 at 95.

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How it was received

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D launched on 2 June 2011, within three weeks of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Terraria. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Terraria.

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When did Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D come out?
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D was released on 2 June 2011 for Nintendo 3DS.

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