Resident Evil 7: biohazard - Not a Hero

 PlayStation 4
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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 95 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 59 out of 95
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 95
  3. Negative: 13 out of 95

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  1. stryder26
    Dec 13, 2017
    1
    I'll keep it spoiler free,

    We have been waiting one bloody year for that??? It's not worth it trust me, thank god it's free. The only real satisfactory aspect it's the ending because many of us were looking to actually do what you are going to see happen. I was really looking forward to play it, and i was utterly disappointed. I hope you will all have a pleasant time getting    I'll keep it spoiler free,

    We have been waiting one bloody year for that???

    It's not worth it trust me, thank god it's free.
    The only real satisfactory aspect it's the ending because many of us were looking to actually do what you are going to see happen.

    I was really looking forward to play it, and i was utterly disappointed.

    I hope you will all have a pleasant time getting familiar with ''Redfield'' because to my eyes he will never be the real Chris Redfield ( even though he is )    … Expand
  2. Avoozl
    Feb 25, 2018
    1
    What an absolute disappointment. They missed the spring release and took almost an extra year because they realized their first attempt wasn't up to quality standards. It's hard to imagine whatever they had being more of a letdown than this. It's incredibly short, and does absolutely nothing to advance the overall RE story or bring in series regular characters other than to tell theWhat an absolute disappointment. They missed the spring release and took almost an extra year because they realized their first attempt wasn't up to quality standards. It's hard to imagine whatever they had being more of a letdown than this. It's incredibly short, and does absolutely nothing to advance the overall RE story or bring in series regular characters other than to tell the "story" of Chris chasing down Lucas. Nor is there a sufficient explanation of him working with Umbrella other than a short throw away document in his inventory.

    I loved the main game, even though I was a little disappointed that there were no appearances from Claire, Jill, Leon, Ada, etc. I can't remember ever being so disappointed by something that was free. I gave it 1 point instead of 0 because at least it is so short you won't waste too much time playing it.    … Expand
  3. TitaniumDragon
    Aug 7, 2020
    2
    Not a Hero is the free DLC expansion to Resident Evil VII. At that price, you can’t go wrong, right?

    Well… Not a Hero puts you in the shoes of Chris Redfield, an actual competent soldier with a more futuristic GUI interface. Unlike the main RE7, which plays like a horror game, this is very much a FPS. The game uses the enemies from the main game, but because you are much better armed    Not a Hero is the free DLC expansion to Resident Evil VII. At that price, you can’t go wrong, right?

    Well…

    Not a Hero puts you in the shoes of Chris Redfield, an actual competent soldier with a more futuristic GUI interface. Unlike the main RE7, which plays like a horror game, this is very much a FPS. The game uses the enemies from the main game, but because you are much better armed and equipped and are more “in control”, it doesn’t feel like such a desperate struggle for survival, but just a FPS type game.

    Indeed, the game doesn’t even try to disguise this fact; it’s very much more standard than the main game.

    Unfortunately, without the tension of survival, this is honestly not a very interesting experience; there’s not a whole lot of surprises here, as you encountered Lucas in the main game and thus know what he’s like, and while there’s a couple boss fights, neither of them was really all that impressive or felt like it was up to snuff compared to the ones in the main game.

    This took less than two hours to complete, and was about the right length for what it was, but what it was was a rather mediocre FPS. I wouldn’t really recommend it unless you’re really interested in seeing what happened to Lucas after the main game.    … Expand

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71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. GameCritics
    Jan 26, 2018
    80
    The new areas are a little more open than one might expect from the claustrophobic RE7, but they’re packed with enemies to blast with Chris’ new semi-auto shotgun, and the faster, more combat-heavy gameplay works just as well in first person as the main game’s slow and tense exploration does. There’s a about an hour of content in Not A Hero, including a boss fight and a truly jarring close-quarters battle that proved traumatic in VR. This is a stellar piece of bonus content, which has only one thing keeping it from being the definitive piece of Resident Evil 7 DLC – it’s not End of Zoe.
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  2. Digital Chumps
    Jan 2, 2018
    60
    Not A Hero absorbs Resident Evil 7's discordant third act and recasts it in the mold of a conventional action shooter. While a sharp focus (and a welcomed protagonist swap) aid Not A Hero's general coherence, it's a vision of a life the seventh Resident Evil chose to leave behind. A safe move isn't often the strongest.
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  3. God is a Geek
    Dec 20, 2017
    80
    Despite an excess of action, the final two DLC episodes feel like a love letter to both the original games and Resident Evil 7 itself. It answers almost every question asked, but leaves a couple unanswered, probably to keep RE8 a possibility.
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