Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is a gaiden in the Resident Evil series. It is an expansion of the ‘Mercenaries’ minigame from Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 spun off into its own title. It contains remakes of the levels from both, as well as an online co-op mode and a "Skills" system that allows the player to assign special abilities to their character based on their performance, similar to the perks in Call of Duty.

Playable characters include Chris and Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine, Albert Wesker, Jack Krauser, HUNK, Rebecca Chambers, and Barry Burton; Capcom has explained that Leon Kennedy was explicitly not included due to his featured role in Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City. He however hinted that he could appear as Downloadable content.

Tropes used in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D include:

• Awesome but Impractical: Wesker's dash, much like in RE5. It looks pretty cool and you can fire off a Knee Cannon that can do some big damage on some, but its hard to get a good hit with it, and it takes some health off, especially with Uroboros Wesker's pitiful health recovery rate.
• Boring but Practical: Chris' loadout's sniper rifle isn't any bit special looking and is more or less a standard bolt-action rifle but considering it can take down most enemies quickly, including some of the big enemies like a Garrador, there's no reason to forget about it.
• Capcom Sequel Stagnation: An obviously non-canon portable remake of a minigame.
• Co-Op Multiplayer: One of the big additions.
• Cool Mask: A rare justified case with HUNK given his career.
• Cut and Paste Environments: Extends to the characters as well. Claire's model, for example, is taken from the Code: Veronica portions of Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles.
• Gaiden Game: Hits all the criteria.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: You, with the grenade launchers. Its entirely possible to nail a precise, long range direct hit on any enemy with a grenade launcher. The added splash damage makes this all the more sweet. In fact, with the help of the laser sight, evena Magnum can be used to achieve this effect.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Marketing and the promo cite how you fight the war on horror.
• I Shall Taunt You: Press X to make your character trash your enemies verbally. Provides a power boost with the right skill equipped and nets you a Medal if you perform a total of 30 near an enemy but it doesn't help for Claire or HUNK since their taunt animations last long and you can't cancel them, leaving them open for attack.
  • On another note, Chris, Wesker and Barry share the same taunt vocal ("Show yourself!") though with different voice actors. You can also hold the X button and press any direction on the D-Pad to give commands to your partner, or thank them if they heal you up. Yes, you can do this when you're alone, too.
• Mooks: Your objective is solely to kill these guys in uncomfortably large numbers.
  • Faceless Goons: The Los Illuminados Zealots from RE 4 have faces obscured by hoods.
  • Gas Mask Mooks: One of the types included, though in a subversion you can play one of these characters. Not just in character design, but in the same role most of these guys occupy (see HUNK above)
  • Heavily Armored Mook: The Base-type Majini have armour on random parts of their body meaning you'll have to really pick your targets. Cultists sometimes have skull helmets on but for them that's the extent of it.
  • Slave Mooks: All the enemies are controlled by a parasite.
• The Power of Friendship: What else but the Friendship skill. It allows the both of you to regenerate health when in each other's vicinity. Leveled up fully, it makes surviving missions a lot easier.
• Rule of Cool: Was Jill in Spain or HUNK in Kijuju in the original minigame? No, but it doesn't stop it from being awesome.
• Scoring Points: The sole objective, you’ll cry when you’re done killing.
• Shock and Awe: Claire's Electric Grenade Launcher. Wide radius and can kill a Cephalos or Duvalia relatively easily.
  • The Thunderbolt skill. Gives your melee attacks electrical properties. Level it up to the max and every knock-down melee attack will summon an additional lightning bolt that'll do major, if not fatal damage to the victim and any surrounding enemies nearby.
• Shout-Out: HUNK's "Mr. Death" alternate costume sure looks a lot like the Batman: Arkham Asylum rendition of The Scarecrow.
  • On that note, some of the alternate costumes are variants on the ones seen in RE5, most notably Barry's (A patriotic recolour of Chris' Warrior costume), Krauser's (Heavy Metal) and Claire's (Sheva's suit with the added bonus of resembling Hunnigan.)