One of my favourite survival horror games has hit its 6th chapter! (with its big action-movie style expanse pushed another step beyond).

Some well-known franchise characters are thrown back in the fray, with others along for the ride. The new C-Virus is set to be unleashed in a global city bio-terror attack.

The three intersecting story-line choices (in different parts of the world) include that of Chris Redfield (with sniper Piers), Leon Kennedy (with secret service agent Helena Harper), or Jake Wesker (and DSO agent Sherry Birkin).

Chris is hiding from the horrors of the past in the bottom of a bottle, but Piers finds him to rejoin his unit and take on the viral threat with a tactical military group. Leon and Helena kicks off by shooting the infected president, with a lead to find whoever is responsible for the madness. Jake & Sherry find themselves in a battle zone.

With large unseen forces behind the bio-attack, and if deformed creatures were not enough, regular zombies have a new breed to make your life hell, the J'avo. These freaks can plot, organize, use weapons and self-heal! Neo-Umbrella agent Ada Wong is also out to throw further spanners in the works.

Amid your weapons upgrades, health herbs & -spray to uncover along the way, a route guide display makes it more effective to guide your way, avoiding aimless running about the many locations (where survivors also need to be saved).

(Chris and Helena escape an attack in the prelude, which very much has you along for the ride with occasional button pushing, with some of the built-in control tutorials a bit annoying).

Extra content includes The Mercenaries game where you have to defeat as many creatures as you can within the allocated time limit, as well as the multi-player Agent Hunt (where you can invade other Resident Evil 6 games!).

Exhilarating, gory and graphic, but not for under 18s.