Resident Evil 5

[h1]A Bridge Too Far[/h1] In 2005 Resident Evil 4 stood out amongst its peers, forging a path forward for campaign-driven, action-horror games. A short 4 years later, Resident Evil 5 quickly fell behind its peers, casting off nearly everything 'Resident Evil' in favor of the stylings of other mainstream titles. Flashy cutscenes and co-op features could not make up for what was lost. RE4 took a giant step towards this precipice, making bold changes to the core structure and feel of a Resident Evil game while still holding onto its survival horror roots. RE4 got away with it. RE5 severed ties with those roots while taking another step and as a result plummeted off the cliff. The release of this mainline entry marks the date where Resident Evil as a franchise lost its way and its identity. Of course, this is all just my opinion. RE4 already took a massive leap away from the original trilogy's formula, so what did RE5 do differently to earn this criticism? First and foremost, for me, is a collection of interwoven mechanics that are all but lost at this point in the series: inventory management, item boxes, save rooms, the merchant, exploration, and back-tracking. With the longer, more linear campaign structure of RE4, the item boxes and tight inventory constraints were lost but what we got back was the most iconic merchant of all-time. I mean you could be a stranger to this all and you'd still know what I'm referencing. With RE5, there's no item boxes, no merchant, just a menu, a really bland menu. And there's no save rooms or typewriters! It's extra aggravating because save room-esque music plays over that menu sometimes, reminding us of how good we used to have it. RE4 held onto exploration and backtracking a little bit, but it wasn't the same. Now with RE5 there is absolutely none of that and that fact leads into my next downgrade: level design. RE4 had three very iconic levels, they each had different strengths and weaknesses but at the end of the day you remembered the village, castle, and island. RE5 takes a similar linear campaign approach but forgets to create any memorable locations. You get generic African village, bland laboratories, some caves, and I don't know what else. Oh, and they butchered the inventory/status screens of old. Gone is any personality or style, replaced with a transparent 3x3 grid... it's sad, totally adequate, but sad. [h1]Combat[/h1] Following in the steps of RE4, RE5 is a combat-focused experience. It takes on the prior's general layout, simply chaining together combat scenario after combat scenario. Unfortunately, the combat feels slightly worse to play and the scenarios are less memorable or innovative. Guns just don't have the same punch anymore; they're all a bit wimpy feeling. The memorable stuff is memorable in a negative way. Lots of turret sections or bastardizations or previous enemy types, how dare they turn lickers into this unrecognizable, mob enemy! There's a good bit of innovation with the melee combat system with more contextual attacks and combos with your partner. And I'd say that is the game's strong suit, being up close and personal with the action, forcing the player to switch weapons and utilize the variety of melee options. [h1]Story[/h1] I'm usually not too wrapped up in the stories of Resident Evil games. I like when it's fairly simple, like let's work to escape the city, let's find Chris, etc. That big picture context can then be underpinned by some conspiratorial nonsense that adds flavor. But here in RE5 it's all conspiratorial nonsense all the time. Chris happens to be deployed to a country in Africa that happens to have a weapons dealer there who happens to be associated with a pharmaceutical company who happens to be associated with an old friend Wesker who happens to have an old friend, Jill Valentine, mind-controlled and doing things and this is all happening in this region, I guess. So, the game is really just Chris following on dotted line to the next dotted line and so forth and you're just along for the ride. I also just hate the style that this game goes for. The cut scenes and the characters are just so obnoxious, check out the motorcycle Majini one above… Fast cuts, overuse of slow-motion, it’s sweaty and grimy but also a sleek and shiny Matrix wannabe. Why is Wesker dodging bullets? Since when are we mind-controlling people by putting a red orb on their chest? It's all really silly and clashes so hard with the grimier parts of the setting and story. If you've seen Black Hawk Down, there's a lot here that apes that tone. Trapped in a city with violent inhabitants, dead soldiers, Humvee sequences etc. But it's hard to criticize the story and plotting because at the end of the day I just enjoyed and praised RE4 and that plot was pretty dumb too. So, whatever, it's all Resident Evil gibberish and I don't really know what I'm talking about. I don't want to search too hard to figure why I don't like it and then turn around five years later and enjoy it… I don't think that will be the case, I really don't like this game, but you never know. [h1]Lost in Nightmares[/h1] Another comment you'll often see regarding RE5 is that Lost in Nightmares, a mini side campaign, is the best part of RE5 or what RE5 should've been. I find this so funny, because while I kind of agree, this campaign is such an afterthought. It tugs on nostalgic threads by placing Jill and Chris in another Spencer mansion with eerily similar architecture and thinks that that is enough effort. What a joke. This hour-long stroll includes backtracking, puzzle solving, traps, and original trilogy-esque door transitions! Wow! All in all, it's totally fine, but man, to me, it feels like Capcom developers were so lost at this point. [h1]Verdict[/h1] Overall, I'm probably being a little harsh on the game but also I didn't really enjoy it. It's a significantly worse version of Resident Evil 4 in almost every way. Like everyone says, it's probably a lot of fun with a friend in co-op, that's how I originally played it. As a solo experience though, in 2026, I'm not feeling it. Check out the full article [url=https://www.sevastromo.com/lost-in-nightmares/] HERE [/url] [url=https://www.sevastromo.com/] Sevastromo Station [/url]

RE5 foi um dos poucos jogos do xbox 360 que já ouvi mas nunca joguei, dps de uns 15/14 anos eu pude jogá-lo com meu amigo (salve isen) e que jogasso da porra, o modo profissional é muito legal e as boss fights que mesmo algumas serem bugadas, elas são jogadas diferentes.

This is the video game equivalent of the "Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?" Abed crash out from the NBC Show Community. "If I was in 70 films over 30 years and I spent each one talking at random volumes, I might accidently win an Oscar". Hilariously fun to play through in co-op. Terrible controls. So bad it is good game design, cutscenes, voice acting, plot, and writing. Also, to say the game is "culturally insensitive", is like saying the surface of the sun is "a tad bit warm".

COME ON, COME ON, COME ON, COME ON

good

Buen juego, tiene a Wesker 🤞

Не знаю почему эту игру не полюбили в своё время, да хоррора здесь вообще нету как такого, но пройти чистый шутанчик со своим другом, да и к тому же в любимой серии игр вообще кайф. Да тут есть душные моменты где ты просто обязан слить все патроны во врагов, но всё равно получилось хорошо. Да и как лорная часть тоже неплохо

Вескер раздетый только в конце, и то не до конца, не нравиться

jill mi vieja w

6이 더 재밌음 ㅋㅋ