Review of Resident Evil 5

First and foremost I am very glad Capcom didn't decide to go with Ubisoft for this port and it shows. This port is actually quality stuff. Graphics look amazing (another review stated that it beats the console versions, I don't own the console version so I can't tell you for sure), the cutscenes are high quality, and so far the game itself is very stable, no problems whatsoever.

As for the game itself, its a pretty entertaining game. I could have done without having a co-op partner though. Unlike RE4, you start off with a small inventory and keep the small inventory (I'm at chapter 6 and I still haven't found a way to increase the inventory so I don't think its possible). However, to help you with this Sheva also has an inventory to store more stuff. And every single item in the game only takes up 1 block in the inventory. Also unlike RE4, ammo isn't as plentiful this time around so make sure to kill what only can't be avoided and try not to miss. The AI is nowhere near perfect. During one boss fight Sheva actually picked up the land mines that I had planted, this only happened once though so it may be a glitch. Being able to chain together submission moves is a welcomed change, very effective at handling mobs (and the infected gang up on you quite often). The story is ignorable, nothing special about it at all although it does mirror RE4 to an extent. I am not a fan of LIVE but it is needed to save your progress, kinda uncool there. Game supports the mouse and a 360 controller. You still can't move and shoot at the same time but I prefer it this way actually, makes the game slightly more intense since you are completely in harm's way when you are lining up a shot. The quick-action button combination pressing deal during cutscenes is a little awkward at first using a keyboard but after awhile it becomes like second nature.

Overall, an entertaining action game. I only paid $45 for this since Steam had a pre-order special and I feel it was worth the money. Game also has good replay value as well.

I have a pretty decent rig and I can run this game on high with 2x AA and motion blur turned on just fine. I'm running a Pentium dual-core clocked at 2.2Ghz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, GeForce 250GTS. So the game has relatively low requirements.



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