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Summary: Stars? Tasty.
Review: Mrs. Perry has done it again. Given the rather minimal plot line of Resident Evil: Nemesis game, she has turned it into a rich narrative, with a beautifully developed villain that you (pardon the cliché) love to hate. But then, could we expect any less?
As with all the other Resident Evil novelizations, Mrs. Perry has held mostly true to the plot of the game. Some of the puzzles are skipped, but they would be annoying to describe and add needless complication to the plot (water sample puzzle, anyone? Over 800 possible combinations! And there's no clues! I spend 3 hours on that damn puzzle! AHHHHHHH!) and there is the strange but smooth insertion of the character of Mr. Trent into the background of the tale.
It was nice to finally see someone offer up a decent theory to the Nemesis, and its origins. The game said nothing about what it was supposed to be. While playing the game the closest I could figure it was a Tyrant that had a run-in with a G-Virus carrier, maybe Birkin himself. One of the problems with the game was that it didn't really make sense in the game that after you shot down this belligerent giant (who was trying to hunt you down and shove a tentacle thing into your mouth and out the back of your head) you ran from his unconscious body. The smart thing to do against Nemesis would be to find some gasoline or some other flammable substance and set Nemesis's body on fire after knocking him out. However, the whole flee-from-the-downed-monster-without-finishing-him-off thing is rationally explained away by Mrs. Perry's superior story-telling powers. Yay! Remember: he twitched, and Jill lost her nerve. Yup.
Niccolai was THE bad guy. Oh joy! His motivation was unclear in the game. All you knew was a little about this "watchdog" program and that Niccolai had set himself up to kill all the other watchdogs and steal their "data," whatever that happened to be. Mrs. Perry gave him a radiant psychotic personality, just as she has with all the other Resident Evil villains. In short, he's a psychotic control freak.
And for those of you that didn't read the footnote thingy about how the events didn't match up, don't complain. ...The Resident Evil 2 novelization was written long, LONG (actually not that long but who cares) before Resident Evil: Nemesis was released, so Mrs. Perry couldn't have known about Jill staying in Raccoon.
Now what I would have really appreciated was SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAINING THE ORIGIN OF THAT BLOOD-SPLATTERED BAZOOKA THAT NEMESIS IS LUGGING AROUND! PLEASE! WHERE DID HE GET IT FROM, AND WHERE DOES HE KEEP IT WHEN HE'S KILLING BRAD? AND DURING THAT PART ON THE CLOCK TOWER WHEN YOU ELECTRECUTE HIM AND HE FALLS OFF HE'S NOT CARRYING THE LAUNCHER BUT LATER HE SHOOTS THE HELICOPTER DOWN WITH IT! WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN? AHHHHHH! *SOB* *SOB*
Anyway I really enjoyed reading the book and playing the game, yadda, yadda, and um...
Oh, yeah.
Stars.
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Summary: This thing is awsome!
Review: This is going to be th best RE game yet!
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Summary: Resident Evil
Review: I think this book is really awsome.I have played the Resident Evil games and read a few books.I want to read all of them.THe book and the game is really sweet..
Rating: 
Summary: Good details and Explains things game didnt...
Review: This was the first of the Resident evil books i read. Since I played the game first, this book explained many things that the game didnt. Really realistic based on the game. Gives Jill a better character and Carlos the same character as the game but with more atitude. Not a really scary book but good storyline and details. For those who like the game Nemesis, this is the book for you.
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Summary: the best book in the series so far
Review: this is probably the best book in the series. mrs perry did a wonderful job describing the events in the book .I've only read a couple of mrs perrys books but i know that this was her best one .Her descriptions were so good it actually felt like it was real life. If your a resident evil fan you have got to read this book.
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Summary: sweet
Review: If you like residant evil than this is the book for you.
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Summary: not as good but good none the less
Review: it wasnt my favorite out of the series but it wasnt my least i still gave it a five because i liked it alot. is there a sixth one?
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Summary: Nemesis review
Review: Being a fan of Perry's work in the Alien novels, I picked this book up because I love the Resident Evil video games. I finished the book today and it only took be about 24 hrs. It kept me riveted through the end, and I wanted to stay up all last night to finish it. This book is excellent.I recommend this to anyone who likes horror novels, and for anyone who likes the RE video games or books.
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Summary: This isn't S.D Perry's best work I hope
Review: I like the book but S.D Perry didn't really describe the envierment of where Jill is. And Brad is to far up in the book.But over the book is good.
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Summary: Another "Resident Evil" book (sigh)
Review: I will start off by stating that this is the best book of the series, but thats not saying much. If you have played the games, you might enjoy this expose into the world of survival horror based entirely on your love of the video game. However, if you have not played the game, or are looking for a well-crafted novel, you will be disapointed. Again, Perry fails at bringing to life the dark, terryfing, and threatening aspects of the enviroment. She relies too much on the fact that you have already educated yourself on the RE story through the games, and offers little imagination beyond what the games have already established. You are left with little feelings for the characters, and you rarely get the "feeling" of the atmosphere they are in. Mostly lifeless and too much like the game (thus repetitive), it still offers some extra insight on the characters, but, unfortunatly, not the monsters.
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