★★ stars I enjoyed this game quite a bit, but the final part - the choice - ruined it for me. I will explain why in a spoiler-free way, so don't worry if you have not played the game yet. First let me say that the choice was not necessary in any way - it is presented after you have completed more than half the game and the game mechanics have already been established, namely: you solving puzzles, using your guns, and watching some cinematic advancing the story. Still, the choice in itself isn't bad, in the last few years games with choices have grown in popularity, and Capcom probably felt it might try and add one to the game (it might have made more sense to add a few, not just one, though).
Now, not to spoil anything to anyone, I will remit myself to a movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, to explain why I hate this choice. Well, if you remember the movie, Indy was in a cave looking for the Holy Chalice to save his father, but there were lots of chalices and he had to choose one - the correct one would bring life, but the incorrect one would bring death, so the knight guarding the chalice told him. Indy got it right of course, but it was not by chance. He realized that all chalices but one were luxury items of gold. So, you see, this was a choice in which i) the relationship of choice and consequence was clear, and ii) there was a clear logic as to why one choice was right. Not so in Resident Evil. There it is random like the lottery, you get the right number by chance. Further, after Indy chose the right chalice, the knight protecting it told him that now he should be the guardian. Indy refused and later left the place. Now, let's say that was another choice. Indy could stay or leave, and he decided to stay. Only, somehow, he doesn't. We watch him say goodbye to his friend Marcus in the cave, but when Marcus arrives in America Indy is there, teaching at the university. This did not happen in the movie, but does happen in Resident Evil. Do they expect people not to notice??
To end with this little rant -it has become a rant, has it not?- the choice in RE seems like a forced addition, something that someone wanted there even if it didn't blend with the story or there was no time to make it blend. And it is an important one, or is supposed to be.
