This is why RE: Operation Raccoon City has me torn. While the yet unreleased game's existence is old news, I found a recent IGN preview in which the author, Richard George, complains that the game "fails to find a sense of gameplay that feels right, and can't even seem to recreate the atmosphere and environments that millions have come to love over the past 15 years," and that "a game this flawed has warning signs all over it." He has only played the first four levels of the game out of an unknown amount, and the game won't go gold for another month, but still. It's worth noting.
So before I go off on my little dissection of about what he's complaining, I'll get the obvious bullet points out of the way, just to get everybody on the same page:
