With the announcement of Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps coming, I am sure all of us Resident Evil players had the same reaction of “ ……… meh”. After the disasters that was Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Resident Evil 6, that piece of shit Resident Evil 5, and Resident Evil: Reve- Well, okay, Revelations was pretty good- There hasn’t been much good Resident Evil games lately. So much in fact, that it made me want to play a good Resident Evil game… And what better one to play than the one that has been deemed the best in the series, and for good reason, Resident Evil 4. еще specifically, Resident Evil 4 HD Remake for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
If Ты know me, then Ты will know that I Любовь Resident Evil 4. Hell, it easily makes my вверх ten Избранное games of all time. It is just that good. For those who don’t know (About one percent of you) Resident Evil 4 is a game where Ты play as Leon S. Kennedy, the character from Resident Evil 2, who, after surviving the Raccoon City Outbreak, he was able to work for the president in just a matter of days. His first mission is to rescue Ashley Graham, the president's daughter, from a terrorist group in a rural village in Spain. However, shit hits the Фан really hard in just seconds, as Leon is attacked by murderous villagers, blood thirsty dogs, a mutated alligator, a giant, a bearded man in a trench coat, a blind monster with giant claws, giant bugs that spit acid, a chainsaw wielding man with a bag over his face, knights, guys in robes, a black anthro scorpion, a man in a robe, generating monsters, black guys with a mini-gun, a soldier who is vulnerable to bullets, fire, and rockets but weak to knives, and a whiny midget…. Incase Ты couldn’t tell, this game is weird.
So, throughout the game, Ты are just shooting enemies while looking for Ashley. Along the way, Ты will meet other somewhat friendly characters, like Luis Sara, a Spanish man who is one of the funniest video game characters I;ve ever met, despite him having so few scenes, and then there is the very minor but oh so very memorable character, The Merchant…. OOOOHHH, THE MERCHANT! This guy sells Ты all kinds of weapons, but has such an amazing voice that Ты can’t help but speak to him again and again because it is just so good. Also, there is a dog. It can distract the giant for you… Because why not.
So, everyone loves this game…. HOWEVER, I want to talk about all the bad things in this game. First off, there is the quick-time events. I always hated these ones in this game, since they come so damn fast, that Ты never have enough time to react. Also, they feel the need to add this with button mashing. I hate having to slam down on the buttons in order to run. This is why I hate the Jack Krauser fights. I swear, I have never pushed the A button so hard and so fast in my life. Poor A button. I don’t think my Gamecube controller can take this much abuse. Another thing is the change of settings. At first, the game looks pretty creepy. Ты start out in a small rural village filled with psychotic villagers. That is pretty scary, I will admit. Than Ты end up at a castle. Um, okay. I don’t know why we’re at a замок now, but I’ll live with it. Than after that, Ты end up at a maximum security lab on an island- Okay, what the hell is this. I thought I was playing a survival horror game. Not Legend of Zelda. What’s with all these crazy environments in one place? And then there is the last problem, which everyone who has played Resident Evil 4 hates. And that is Ashley herself. Everyone has сказал(-а) that Ashley is an obnoxious idiot who will gladly run head first into enemies just to shout at the вверх of her lungs like an idiot. Now, do I find Ashley annoying? No….. ish. I mean, I never had that much problems with Ashley. Sure, she does Любовь running into enemies, and when I try to lead her away from a Regenerator, she just lies there, and gets killed and I got to do the level all over again, ARE Ты FUCKING KIDDING ME, ASHLEY- But, those kinds of things only happened once to me throughout a single playthrough. I usually kept her behind me in a different part of the room that lacked enemies, so I could go off and kill the enemies up ahead, keeping myself from hearing Ashley shout, so I rarely found her to be an annoyance like others did.
So, let’s talk about this game some еще and how much it ISN’T a horror game. This game has been called a survival horror third person shooter, but really, this feels еще like an action game. Resident Evil 4 is like the early Dead Космос 2. It’s a great game, but it’s not a horror game. Of course, I was willing to give this game the benefit of the doubt and see if it can still scare me….. Until (Spoilers) a helicopter came onto the island and shot at a bunch of Ganados (Names of the enemies). Yeah, this felt еще like a fucking Rambo movie by this point. Just get Sylvester Stallone and it will be perfect. Also, in case the game wasn’t action packed enough, if Ты beat the game once and play it again, Ты can buy the Chicago Typewriter, an extremely powerful assault винтовка with unlimited ammo, which can kill anything in just a few shots. Of course, if Ты REALLY want еще action in this game, Ты can buy the Infinite Rocket Launcher, which fires a constant amount of rockets. I made it a goal to kill as many things as I could with this thing. I don’t know if it is possible to get a headshot with a rocket launcher, and I don’t know if I did. I’d check but the body blew up before I could.
Now, this game obviously had tons of Любовь and was seen as a very revolutionary game at the time. it got 9/10s, или even 10/10s. The game was just that good. The best version at the time was the Gamecube version, which is the one I own along with the HD remake. That was until PS2, the spoiled brat of the sixth generation of consoles wanted the game for himself with better controls. PS2 is just such a fat fucking hog when it comes to having the best games. Another thing to add, Resident Evil’s ending was placed in the гиннес, guinness, гиннесса Book’s вверх 50 Best Endings in Video Games Ever… Period… In the World. I mean, was the ending really that good. Not going to spoil it, but I don’t think it deserved to be put in the вверх fifty of best ever… Then again, this was the same book that thought Call of Duty: Black Ops ending was the best ending ever. Yeah, because zombies was such a fucking surprise.
Overall, Resident Evil 4 is a fantastic games. Sure, it has one или two problems, but those problems are quickly dashed with the fun gameplay, action, and exploration. And even the puzzles are fun, while they may be easy (EXCEPT FOR THAT FUCKING SLIDING PUZZLE). If Ты happen to find this game for Gamecube, PS2, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, или even fucking Windows (Yes, there was a version of that), then this is a game Ты need to buy. If Ты want to get rid of the awful taste of Resident Evil’s 5, 6, and Operation: Raccoon City, than this is for you. But, hey, that’s only my opinion. What’s Your Take.