Well, I watched this today and...It isn't good. The character models, movement, overall design, and visuals are nice. But that's about it...At least they made Claire pretty again, instead of her ugly character model from REmake2.
The direction they gave for Leon's voice is awful. I won't say the voice acting itself is bad. Because it isn't. But the direction the VA was given was bad. This is Leon post RE4, and they're using (I think) the voice actor from REmake2. So you have this super young sounding voice coming out of an older Leon, who we already know at this point in the story has a deeper voice from RE4. Since this show is canon, this really jarring, especially since character design wise, he looks like RE4 Leon.
The main antagonists goal was WAY to similar to Degeneration. Pretty much identical. Which is just flat out lazy.
There's some issue with the pacing, and I'm pretty sure this can be chalked up to the fact that, I'm willing to bet, this was a movie first, then for whatever reason they decided to splice it up into a four episode miniseries. The problem is, movies and TV are different. The way they are written is different. So if you advertise something as a show/series, and really just give us a movie split into 4 parts, you're going to have some tonal and pacing inconsistencies which hurt the overall product.
I also think what they did with Leon's character was bizarre, and Claire's was weak. At this point in his career we know he's AT LEAST survived RE2, RE: Darkside Chronicles, and RE4. He's the Presidents Right. Hand. Man. Why is some nobody soldier telling Leon the mission is "Classified" like he's some lame underling. This dude is the presidents main man. If he's being sent on the mission, I can't imagine it would be classified. As for Claire, she's survived RE2 and RECV:X at this point at least. She has shown WAY more skill than the bumbling and falling over they give her in this series.
The ending also sucks...Leon and Claire having that little argument? When we're supposed to believe in Degeneration they're just back to normal again? Sure this is a series. Maybe we'll have another season or 2 for them to get back to this point. But I somehow doubt it since I doubt this was supposed to be a show in the first place, and really just a movie. IDK. I'm pretty underwhelmed at just about everything in this series save for Leon's witty dialogue, and the political aspect. Actually focusing on that was the freshest thing they've done with RE in a while.