Review: Resident Evil 5 121
- Title: Resident Evil 5
- Developer: Capcom
- Publisher: Capcom
- System: Xbox 360, PS3
- Reviewer: Soulskill
- Score: 7/10
Resident Evil 5 starts you off as Chris Redfield, a familiar face from earlier in the series, as he chases down a bio-terrorism threat in Africa. As you soon find out, there is a New and Improved Las Plagas parasite, which sends its unwitting hosts into a zombified and suggestible state. The new breed is, on the whole, smarter, faster and more dexterous. While some zombies are content to swing their fists or throw an empty bottle at you, others will fight complex gun battles, using cover, deadly accuracy, and aspects of the environment to try and take you out. You'll still meet the shambling, growling hordes you're used to, but there's a much greater range of bad guys than before. They essentially fill any role an uninfected human might in a traditional action game. Newcomers to the series probably won't give this a second thought, but long-time fans may be bothered by it.
Accompanying you on your journey is Sheva Alomar, a young African woman in the Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA) who quickly becomes Chris' loyal partner. This is the foundation of the game's focus on co-op play, since a second player can take control of Sheva and work in tandem with you, either locally or over Xbox Live. For solo players, Sheva is controlled by the game's AI, to generally favorable results. Chris and Sheva each have their own inventory space, and you can shuffle items, guns, and ammunition between them as necessary. They back each other up in fights; when a zombie grabs and holds you, your partner can come to your aid and knock the zombie away. If you are close to death, your partner can resuscitate you.
The AI does a pretty good job at being where you want it, coming to your aid when you need it, and doing a respectable amount of damage to your enemies. It has no qualms about running itself out of ammo, but you can give it more or tell it to pick up more off the ground. The one major problem is that you can't really set up a plan with your AI partner. You can't tell them to stay here and cover you while you advance to a different spot, and you can't direct them toward a particular threat. The enemy AI is by turns intelligent and quite stupid. They'll chase you anywhere, scaling ladders quickly or jumping between rooftops, and they'll duck behind walls for cover. Unfortunately, they also have a habit of running up to you and standing still for five seconds before deciding to attack. You can also just run through big groups of some enemies without a scratch. It's probably necessary for the sake of letting the player have a chance to survive, but it's not believable stupidity, and makes it feel like they're just giving you something at which to throw your extra ammunition. Boss AI is almost nonexistent; they usually play out more like scripted encounters. For some of them, this works well.
The difficulty in fighting any of the game's enemies is strictly tied to how you control your character. Capcom made the decision to forbid movement while using your weapon in Resident Evil 5. If you don't like the idea of being unable to "run and gun," you should definitely try the demo first to see how it plays. The effect it has on gameplay is to make shooting your guns something that takes more thought and planning. Firing for extended periods becomes a dangerous proposition because zombies tend to come from all directions. If you stand still long enough, one will eventually come up behind you and attack. It makes situations where you're frantically firing into a group of onrushing enemies all the more tense, knowing that death may be creeping up on you unseen. Oh, and for whatever reason, Capcom decided to prevent you from moving while brandishing your knife as well. I can understand stopping to aim a gun, and maybe having your feet stop moving while actually swinging a blade, but why can't you walk and hold a knife at the same time? Perhaps they just didn't feel it was worth the time to code the changes for an infrequently used weapon. Either way, trying to hit things with your knife is annoying and often useless.
That said, Capcom didn't balance the stationary firing restriction with more responsive aiming. Even at the highest level of sensitivity, the controls are quite clunky to use when enemies are surrounding you. They did implement a button combo that flips you 180 degrees, and this helps to some extent. However, it's still fairly slow, and you almost always need to spend extra time finding your target after spinning around. Worse is when there are zombies to your right or left; button combos that flip you 90 degrees to one side or the other would have been quite welcome, but you're not given that option. Many similar games have implemented a tracking system for nearby enemies, either as dots on a mini-map or arrows on a HUD. Not so in Resident Evil 5; you're often forced into simply panning slowly around the room to see if anything is heading toward you.
You'll also get to deal with a several types of enemies — such as dogs, spiders, and some bosses — who sometimes move more quickly than you can track them. They don't pose a huge threat to your character by themselves, but they often grab and hold you, allowing other, more dangerous enemies to get close. Those have their own associated problems — for one, a few of the more difficult enemies will just outright kill you if they get within melee range. While this makes sense from a realism perspective, it can be frustrating given the slowness of the movement system, and the requirement that you stop to deal damage. Add to this the huge amount of damage some of them can take, and you end up with regular enemies that feel tougher than the end-of-level bosses.
The boss encounters themselves are hit and miss. Resident Evil 5 makes gratuitous use of Quick-Time Events both during fights and in cut scenes. As the boss prepares to smash you with some tentacled appendage, you'll have a window of a second or so to press a button or get killed. This works decently when you're actually able to control your character, and it's used as part of a normal fight. In one of the later chapters, you get to fight a giant spider that's hanging onto a big, circular platform. As you attack the legs holding it in place, you dodge the ones that are free to swipe at you. It's a lot of fun. Unfortunately, many of the other QTEs are simply distracting. It's used continually in cut scenes to, presumably, keep the player engaged as the game characters are forced into decisions about fighting or dodging. But there's no real consequence to those actions; it's either linearly continue the scene or die (and start again very close to where you died).
One thing you'll notice is that many of the boss fights are just variations on a theme: chase bad guy, catch bad guy, watch bad guy turn into nigh-invulnerable, many-tentacled super zombie. But he has a weak spot! Some of these fights work better than others, and there are more original battles scattered throughout the game as well. For example, a battle with a hulking monstrosity that looks like a troll from Lord of the Rings is unique, but quite simple. The fight scenes with the mastermind who's orchestrating all these events (or, as I call him, "Neo") are more complex and interesting, but tend to suffer from QTEs that rely on fast movement, which is not the game's strong point.
The game ships with over 50 cut scenes of varying length. They're quite impressive to watch, and fans of the Resident Evil story won't be disappointed. They do an amazing job of developing the plot and tying the various levels together in a logical way. The scenes are framed and rendered in such a way that they look like movie footage shot by an actual camera, and it's done well. Monsters, characters, and explosions all look amazing. The story itself isn't high drama, but it's entertaining and serviceable — it's what you'd probably expect from a high-budget zombie flick. The big plot twist is depressingly predictable, but it sets up a cool fight. The settings and scenery during actual gameplay are excellent as well. You're taken through modern slums, primitive villages, underground labs, and a variety of other locales. There's quite a lot of detail, and Capcom took care to make everything colorful and interesting to look at.
Resident Evil 5 is a game that gets much better when you have somebody to play with. As I mentioned earlier, the AI is reasonable, but it doesn't compare to having another human to watch your back or help you kill something. The movement and aiming issues become much less problematic when playing with a friend, since you can stand back to back and limit the area one person has to cover. Once you've defeated the main campaign, you also open up Mercenaries mode, which can be played solo or with a friend. Much like in the previous games, you're dropped into a level with plenty of ammo and plenty of zombies to fight. You have a time limit, but glowing pillars scattered around the map will add time to the clock, and enemies will get stronger as the round goes on. The primary campaign forces you to manage your ammunition fairly strictly — if your accuracy isn't great you can expect to run out of bullets frequently — so being able to just fight without worrying about it makes Mercenaries even more entertaining.
The inventory and weapon selection systems are dominated by ammunition limits. Since you aren't given much of any one type of bullet, you're forced to carry around several different guns. These guns and their associated ammo don't leave much room for healing items, grenades, or proximity bombs, so those are used sparingly. You get the standard shooter-game implements — pistols, shotguns, machine guns, rifles — and the lack of ammo will force you to switch between them fairly often. It can be annoying, especially when you're restricted to a pistol or machine gun when you want to use something more powerful. They also give you a few more impressive weapons as the game goes on, but those are used less frequently. Regardless of the ammunition situation, the weapons themselves are nicely designed. You'll have a broad array of tools for the situations you're given, and each gun has a distinct feel.
It wouldn't be a Resident Evil 5 review without mentioning the concerns of racism that were raised when it was revealed that the game would be set in Africa. To put it bluntly: it's a non-issue. The plot is a natural development of moving the Resident Evil story to a new continent. They make it clear that the zombified people are victims, and that the real evil is the corporation behind the experiments.
Whether or not you enjoy Resident Evil 5 is likely to be dependent on how much you like the controls and whether or not you have a buddy you can play with. The plot is cheesy, but in an entertaining way, and it's basically shown to you as a movie interspersed with gameplay. Fans of the story will be pleased — there are tons of unlockable visuals and bits of information. If you were hoping for a more traditional survival game, you may be disappointed. The action is definitely ramped up, and there aren't really any scary moments. However, it's definitely a worthy addition to the Resident Evil franchise, and the amount of care and effort Capcom put into this game is quite evident.
hrm (Score:5, Insightful)
no PC release?
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It's a game where a white cop shoots hordes of black men. This could never be "PC".
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It's not an MMO, which is all PC gamers want to play nowadays, so why would they bother porting it?
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This is a simply ridiculous comment!
Yes, I play WoW but it's my only MMO and I certainly do not want any more.
Look at the games I have purchased recently:
Unreal Tournament 3, World of Goo, Ghost Recon 2, Command & Conquer 3, SlamIt Pinball, Bioshock, Left 4 Dead, Trackmania.
That's a pretty broad spectrum of game styles.
PC owners want the same games as console owners...we're just getting screwed over more and more by the games companies pandering to ADD console-kiddies and FUD piracy bullshit.
The only th
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Some of us still think playing FPS and 3rd person games with a gamepad is awkward and horribly inaccurate.
I played the demo of RE5 and I STILL hate the controls on the console. The one that did it best was RE4 on the Wii. No RE5 there though, and it'd be butchered graphically if it was.
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Does this mean that all console gamers are too stupid to be able to use a computer, and that is why they are on a console? or did I just make an idiotic blanket statement much like yours?
Although honestly, it is not just the statement. It is the idiot who modded it insightful.
I'm a PC gamer, and there is only one kind of game I do not play. MMORPG. The closest I get, is the Neverwinter Nights franchise... which *is* RPG but not massive... as it is specifically designed for smaller groups of players to p
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If it's going to be anything like Resident Evil 4's, it's best they don't bother. Having to hold an "aim" button to trigger a super sensitive aim (for which there isn't a sensitivity control) and having to be totally stationary while shooting? Seriously? Not even most console games do that, anymore... It pretty much requires you to play it with a gamepad and... if I liked or wanted to play a shooter with a gamepad, I'd buy a console.
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I agree that they should've made clear that the game requires a gamepad with analog knobs to play but other than that there's nothing else to complain about the controls of the PC version.
And yes, the cutscenes not being on engine is a bummer.
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The aiming was too fast, not too slow, and you couldn't choose how fast it went. As for being too easy, other games manage to balance that just fine. Let's not excuse laziness.
And you make a fine point on the cutscenes, too.
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This game probably has the 2nd most epic boss fight ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA5aHFPMSCo [youtube.com]
This is the most epic boss ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGKsGtv6Dqo [youtube.com]
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But I had a great time playing RE 3 and RE 4, and hope RE 5 will be as good.
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I would guess this is partially to allocate coding time to different platforms, and partially to give the consoles an exclusive over the PC market for a while.
UCapcom has no reason to hold back any port of the game except the extra cost of developing it. Not being able to release it at the same time as the other versions actually hurts sales. The PC version doesn't compete with the console version — if you have a console, you buy the console version, even if you have a PC. But if you only have a PC, the buzz around the initial release is going to have a lot less influence six months down the road.
Developing multiple ports of any software product is expensiv
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concerns of racism? (Score:5, Insightful)
The game is set in Africa. Remote villages in Africa. I'm guessing there's not a whole heck of a lot of white people out there in remote parts of Africa.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Re:concerns of racism? (Score:5, Insightful)
The game is set in Africa. Remote villages in Africa. I'm guessing there's not a whole heck of a lot of white people out there in remote parts of Africa.
Nothing to see here, move along.
No matter what you do today, you'll offend someone. People like being offended. It makes them feel powerful. It means they can look down on someone and even lecture them on being so "insensitive". I can't count how many times some WHITE SUBURBAN PERSON lectured me behind their GATED ALL WHITE COMMUNITY about racism.
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I can't count how many times some WHITE SUBURBAN PERSON lectured me behind their GATED ALL WHITE COMMUNITY about racism.
That could really mean anything. Maybe your white suburban person decided to live there because he got a good deal on the house or it's really close to his job. I know I wouldn't refuse to live in all white (or whatever) neighborhood, if the house was a good deal or it fit my criteria. It has nothing to do with my racial views.
Re:concerns of racism? (Score:4, Interesting)
The game is set in Africa. Remote villages in Africa. I'm guessing there's not a whole heck of a lot of white people out there in remote parts of Africa.
Nothing to see here, move along.
No matter what you do today, you'll offend someone. People like being offended. It makes them feel powerful. It means they can look down on someone and even lecture them on being so "insensitive". I can't count how many times some WHITE SUBURBAN PERSON lectured me behind their GATED ALL WHITE COMMUNITY about racism.
Yes!! As a person of color I just LOVE having stupid, ignorant, or purposefully malicious references made about my culture and skin color so I can get in my daily quota of looking down on people and feeling powerful!
How did you know that minorities like being dehumanized and categorized?
Who the hell let the cat out of the bag?
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Wow. You managed to turn a relatively raceless, general observation of human behavior that used white people as an illustration into something that you, as a person of color, could be offended by. There's so much irony in that, it's hard comprehend. Way to prove his point.
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Are you serious? Let me see if I can recap the above conversation.
OP: People like being offended, so that they can repsond derisively towards the offender. Here's an example using white people.
AC: I (mistakenly, perhaps purposefully) declare you're belittling minorities. I take offense to that, and respond derisively towards you.
All I can say is, "niccccccce!"
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What they could have done is pretend the game is set in South Africa. Then you can shoot as many white people with hilarious accents [escapistmagazine.com] as you want, which is of course perfectly acceptable behavior.
Re:concerns of racism? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh, Africa! (Score:5, Informative)
Made of Straw (Score:1)
Yes, that would be stupid. However, that's not the criticism that's being made. (At least, by the vast majority of people. COnsidering the stupidity of humanity, I'm sure there's someone somewhere who's actually arguing that.)
First tip to deal with accusations of being offensive - Try finding out why something offends people instead of employing straw men. You
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That actually sounds pretty hot...
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The only identifiable black character is a ready-for-hollywood light skinned Anglo action chick, "one of the good ones".
Small point of disagreement...I believe the guy in charge of the reinforcements that saved you from the motorcycle zombies was black and African.
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To top it off, her unlockable outfit is a leopard skin bikini, with an animal tooth necklace and warpaint.
What? Chris Redfield's is his STARS outfit, they're both just dressed in their heritage gear.
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"The game makes no effort to distinguish from zombiefied africans from non-zombified africans, both are presented as "The Other". . . . The only identifiable black character is a ready-for-hollywood light skinned Anglo action chick, "one of the good ones"."
You didn't find any difference between the presentation of Josh Stone's "Delta Team" and the zombies? Or did you not play the game up to that point? Or did you not play the game at all?
Delta Team is presented as a mixed-race group of powerful, competent s
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amazingly you find tourists everywhere. It would have been both realistic and fun to add fat people with hawaii shirt white socks and sandals.
Reboot (Score:2, Insightful)
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I was playing the demo the other day. And it was almost all action. I haven't actually played much of the other REs (maybe 5 minutes of RE4...), but I was constantly waiting for less shooting, and more horror-survival stuff. It never really came :(
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Normally a reboot is only warrented if a series or so is failing.
I don't like the action over horror take, but most seem to enjoy it.
Shooting black people in Africa?! RACISM! *blegh* (Score:5, Insightful)
A game set in Africa has blaaaaack people: Ohno!
Where were those people when RE4 was released (set in an, iirc, Spanish town), shouting that it was clearly racism to only shoot Spanish people!
Blegh, so bad to see political correctness being brought in by overly sensitive people: I'd even go as far as to say those people are the -real- racists in this society...
Nevertheless, had a go at this game a few days ago; If you liked Resident Evil 4, be sure to get this one. It's more of the same, but has some amazing action sequences (though it wasn't as 'scary' as RE4 was for me).
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Where were those people when RE4 was released (set in an, iirc, Spanish town), shouting that it was clearly racism to only shoot Spanish people!
A white guy was doing the shooting there. Of other white people. I guess the lesson is that fewer people have problems with white-on-white racism, possibly because that's not really racism. Why am I playing devil's advocate? Boredom.
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HORRIBLE anology. You're talking about a decidedly racist organization exterminating the reanimated dead bodies of the people they sought to eliminate. If Chris Redfield wore a KKK bed sheet, then yes, I could understand someone taking offense.
But this is not about ANY racist organization, unless you consider the entire white race to be one. Taking offense to a game like this seems to imply that it is culturally insensitive to have a white protagonist fact off against black antagonists regardless of the
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Straw man is made of Straw!! (Score:1)
Since that's completely not the argument that's being made you get *double* racism points. :) Oh sure, there's probably some idiot somewhere who is honestly offended that you shoot black people at all in a game. There are a vast number of idiots in the world, as your post proves. But that's honestly and seriously NOT
What about the racism complaints? (Score:5, Informative)
Discussed here [eurogamer.net]
also here [theatlantic.com]
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Bad comment title on my part. I meant "What about the racism complaints:" but put in a question mark instead of a colon.
Re:What about the racism complaints? (Score:4, Insightful)
Or, more charitably, it suggests that Africa is like every other continent, with both decent people and thugs.
Put it this way: What should Capcom have done? Made the villains a mix of all races, despite the true demography of Africa? Portrayed all uninfected Africans as virtuous, making other races the villains (which is racist in itself)? Or (the true lesson game developers learned here), avoid the hassle and never set a game in Africa, because it's a no-win situation?
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And I don't think the whole Africa thing has hurt the game at all. I've followed the discussion pretty closely ever since the first trailer was released. In my estimation it seems like must people discussing the racial issue were doing it as little more than an intellectual exercise of sorts. I haven't seen much talk of boycotting the game or anything like that and there's been l
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The plot of the game is actually about foreigner powers exploiting Africa and its people. It's an anti-colonial message really.
Thank you. Someone played the game past the initial demo stage. I get the distinct impression that a lot of the accusation of racism came from the initial trailer and the demo. It's understandable, but I also would have liked to see a better discussion of the plot evolution by the people with a stake in the reception of the game. I think the exploitation aspect is actual an important plot turn, and as such, Capcom probably didn't want to reveal that specific portion. Still, Capcom's PR department could have
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Animal or human, it's never revealed, but these are not infected Majini. There are no red bloodshot eyes. These are ordinary Africans, who stop and stare at you menacingly as you approach.
When I was in Kenya, it was the custom for angry mobs to stop shoplifters in the streets, shove tires down over their bodies, then light them. I personally saw the aftermath of such vigilante justice. Newsflash to people crying racism: the world is violent when you get outside the safe zones.
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That happens in Brazil if you rob in the slums, as a part of the vigilante justice enforced by the drug lords. It's called "the wave" (translated literally from portuguese) because of how it looks when they roll the still flaming tires down the hill. (Most slums in Rio, at least, are built on the mountains)
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I believe the New York Times review takes a fairly objective view of the racism complaint.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/arts/16evil.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=resident%20evil&st=cse [nytimes.com]
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Actually, what the game is suggesting (and I understand the confusion, because this comes out as the story plays out) is that the area is used as the test ground for a 3rd generation Plagas bio-agent: subjects are highly-functioning and highly violent, but very obedient and with much higher residual intelligence than past infected hosts.
That's why you see the violence in the beginning town: most of the residents have already been infected with the parasite, but not all. Bloodshot eyes are not a requirement
From the demo... (Score:2)
Can anyone comment on something? In the demo, the laggy controls then an instant death in melee, followed by a nice restart from the beginning did not create a good impression. Did the game actually fix this or should I just expect more of the demo?
Anyways, from the demo, I felt this was a game that had the RE name attached to it because it wouldn't sell with any other story. I'm sure it's got a great Resident Evil saga attached to it, but
I'll pick it up on gamefly, but I doubt I'll get the same terror of h
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I didn't like the demo either, and I haven't played the full game but the feeling I got was that it was just a bad area for a demo. You were facing a ton of bad guys with little ammo, and while that may be the normal situation for the game, its a poor choice to get acquainted with the game's controls. Given some easier into areas maybe I wouldn't have found the experience so frustrating.
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A big part of the Resident Evil series has always been about conserving supplies and avoiding combat when possible. That changed a little in RE4 and more so in this new one, but a few stages, like Pu
RE4 (Score:4, Insightful)
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I'm pretty sure that those are just ports of the Gamecube games, which still look pretty good.
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Why would they port the GameCube games when you can already play those in the Wii? Then again, why would the remake it for the Wii? It's not like there's any aim-and-shoot gameplay like in RE4.
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I've played them both now, and the main reason to get RE5 would be for the co-op, which is well done.
If you're playing through the game on single player, then RE4 on the Wii is a lot better just because of the great controls. Capcom must be nuts for not bringing this game out on the Wii.
Meh (Score:3)
The RE5 demo underwhelmed me. Same old control issues. I think Dead Space could be the new pillar of horror games as long as they don't bring back the fraking asteroid shooting minigame in the next one.
Re:Meh (Score:5, Informative)
Dead Space is awesome.
It's the best game in a long time.
There was nothing wrong with the asteroid sequence, either.
Likewise, there is nothing wrong with the RE5 controls. There was nothing wrong with RE4 controls, and there was nothing wrong with the controls in the other RE games. The issue is that people want the game to control like a typical action game, or even a shooter. What people don't realize is that RE isn't about run and gun. It's about running.
Classic RE games (which I sorely miss), are ALL about running. If you take out every zombie or monster in your way, you'll be out of ammo pretty quickly. The gameplay was about solving puzzles, and staying alive. Running through the mansion/police department/etc., your strategy should be to explore first, and confront last.
People bitch about the controls in these games too - being one of the earlier 3D franchises, the use of relative controls disoriented a hell of a lot of people. People didn't understand that UP on the controller meant forward, not UP on the screen. The games HAD to be designed this way since they used fixed camera angles (due to the use of pre-rendered environments). Imagine running from an enemy down a long hallway by holding down on the controller. When you get to the point where the camera angle changes, holding down would no longer keep you moving in the same direction (in many cases, it would turn you around and send you running into the monster!). Relative controls meant that players were able to hold one direction and run through the hallway across multiple camera angle changes. Relative controls also made manual aiming without a crosshair, over the shoulder view, or even first-person view, much more viable.
The only legitimate gripe about the controls is the slow rate of turn. Without an analog controller (since it was not the default on the PlayStation), a decision about turn speed had to be made. The issue is MINOR, at best.
For the action RE games (4 and 5), the control was built around single-analog movement. This meant one stick was used for forward+back as well as turning. (Yes, RE 5 is basically RE 4 HD.)
The complaints about the controls in RE 4 and 5 almost invariably come for people who want a pure action game. Ever fire a gun while running? Doesn't really work so well. Even a slow walk make it about a million times more difficult.
I can understand wanting a faster turn rate while standing still (and not aiming). While aiming, the turn rate is fine. I personally play with it set to "faster" (there is one above it, "fastest") and have no problems on the hardest difficulty. This isn't Quake.
I can understand wanting to walk while aiming, but being required to stop to shoot (like Dead Space). However, I think this would make the game too easy. In order to keep the difficulty up, we'd see more enemies, faster enemies, and, as a result, more shooting and more ammo. This would push RE games even further away from survival horror. No thanks.
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People who can't handle relative controls remind me of the mouth breathers who play with un-inverted mouse controls.
Seriously, there should be a camp for those people.
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I played on hard (not the one you unlock after beating the game) and had no problems with it.
This goes hand-in-hand with my previous post:
A lot of people are simply unable (or unwilling) to adapt to a different control scheme, even when that control scheme is perfectly fine.
One question though: Did you play at a widescreen resolution? I set my brother up with Dead Space after I went through it, and it was much more difficult (and much less impressive) on a non-widescreen monitor.
For the last time. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not "white people shooting black people racist". The images people are objecting reflect back to colonial days. It's the image of a white strong superman coming in to aid the poor impoverished dark skinned people.
It's Curious George racist, not Rodney King racist.
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Re:For the last time. (Score:4, Interesting)
No because it's not the plot that was objected to. It's the images. And the images from the trailer were of a white superman going into an African country. For most Europeans and Africans that evokes memories of not particularly distant colonial adventures.
I haven't heard anyone object to the plot, nor have I heard these concerns voiced as much in the context of the game. But in the trailer the images definitely played out like some sort of colonial wet dream. My point was just to point out what people objected to in the trailer, because I think so many people heard racism and interpreted it completely wrong.
Imagine if they had shown a trailer where Chris was battling African-American zombies with the help of his trusty canine companion and firehose. The plot context wouldn't matter that much because the first thing people would see would be reflections of their own experiences during the mid-twentieth century.
I'm glad that the game was not indeed racist. I think Capcom could have saved themselves some grief, however, if they'd had that trailer vetted by someone with knowledge of European and African history.
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You see, it's thoroughly reasoned out reactions like yours that make me wonder why people are constantly crying about racism. Clearly, there are no more idiotic racist fucks on the internet, so there must not be any in real life either.
Re:For the last time. - Just remember (Score:1, Offtopic)
Just remember it was blacks that sold blacks to the whites..... Where do you think they got black people from???? Everyone is racist - blacks hate whites, mexicans hate blacks and whites, whites hate everyone not white. Who cares anymore......
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Good game! (Score:1)
It is definitely apparent that people in today's society do not have enough to do - so they spend their energies on useless crusades such as these.
If the game involved black-killing-whites, or hispanic-killing-blacks, or black-killing-hispanics
Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them (Score:1)
I find it hilarious that people are offended by fact that there are AFRICANS in AFRICA!
I have yet to actually see ANYONE who is offended by the presence of africans in africa. I charitably assume some troll under a bridge somewhere has th
Run and shoot? Mouse control? (Score:1, Troll)
Didn't think so, I'm leaving it on the shelf. Don't care squat about the plot/graphics - those two are deal breakers for me.
What does this have to do with wheelchairs? (Score:1)
There's a disabled joystick shown at the top of the article.
Speaking for my fellow undead (Score:3, Funny)
including werewolves, vampires and other less obvious or more decomposed individuals we find the entire Resident Evil series to be very offensive and in poor taste! And we prefer the term "differently alive."
Re:Just a rant.... (Score:5, Informative)
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