Hello everyone, and welcome to my classic game review of, Resident Evil 4. This survival horror game was made by Capcom back in early 2005. Despite it being called, Resident Evil 4, it's actually the sixth installment in the series. It was released for the Nintendo Gamecube, and went on to become one of the most successful games on the console. This game is hard for me to review, because although it is an undeniably good game, it also signified the beginning of the end of my favorite videogame franchise ever. Resident Evil was always about that slow burn type of gameplay, where you would need to take your time and be methodical. Search your surroundings, conserving ammo and health items, always afraid of what might be behind the next door. The fixed camera angles attributed to the tension, making it even more difficult to see what was around the corner. Resident Evil 4 threw the old formula, that they'd been using for about ten years, right out the window and opted for a more action oriented gameplay style. This was not my Resident Evil that I'd had so much fun with anymore, but it was surprisingly good. So despite it representing the death of my favorite game series, I'm going to try and be as fair as possible.
Some major changes were made this time around, pretty much everything got an overhaul. The camera was now in an over the shoulder third person view, no more fixed camera angles. Your gun can now be aimed in any direction and has a laser sight, that makes it easier to hit your target. You can now shoot enemies in the leg to make them fall, shoot their hand to make them drop their weapon, or even shoot a projectile right out of the air. Now, instead of claustrophobic hallways, you get wide open areas with large groups of enemies. That's something totally foreign to Resident Evil, and really makes you have to learn a whole new way of thinking to take out your opponent. But, luckily, they now give you a plethora of guns, with plenty of ammo as well as grenades. Resident Evil 4 really changed the franchise into an entirely new thing, but it was incredibly successful, and sparked a new trend of third person action shooter games.
In Resident Evil 4 you play as U.S. Special Agent, Leon Kennedy, the same guy from the second game, but now with a fancy new title. He's on a mission to rescue the President's Daughter. It seems as though she's been kidnapped by a cultist group, and following a lead, Leon takes a trip to a little village in Spain to see if he can pick up her trail. When he arrives in the secluded forest village, he sees what looks like an abandoned house and goes inside. He greets the man inside to see if he knew anything, but suddenly the man attacks Leon, chanting some weird phrase over and over. Leon has no choice but to shoot the guy and get out of there. But when he goes back to his car, you see someone has pushed the it down a cliff and broke the only bridge that leads back out, maybe an homage to Evil Dead. Now Leon has no choice but to continue further into the village to see what he can find.
As he approaches the main part of the village he sees a large group of people all going about their daily business. But at closer inspection through binoculars, he notices in the center of the village are the two local cops that Leon came with, being burned in a pyre. Having no choice, Leon presses on and confronts them all. At this point all hell breaks loose, and you become overwhelmed with people chasing you down trying to kill you. You can run into nearby houses and push a bookshelf in front of the door, but they will break through eventually. Dozens of enemies will relentlessly come at you, even guys with chainsaws. I think you have to kill a certain amount of enemies, or survive for a certain amount of time, then a bell will ring and all the villagers will suddenly stop and walk away. You can now ransack the town and safely move on to the next area.
It's a very memorable beginning for Resident Evil 4, and at the time that it came out there was nothing like it. As you go through the game you will be put in many different environments, towns, farms, a vast cave, a huge castle, on a boat on the lake, they do a good job of keeping everything feeling fresh and interesting. The enemies are very agile and responsive, if you're aiming at one, they might bob and sway to try and avoid being shot. They will throw knives and axes at you, come at you with chainsaws, at later in the game even shoot back at you will all types of guns. At the beginning you will see a lot of villagers,, but later on you'll be fighting men in robes who are part of the cult that kidnapped the President's Daughter. There are dogs to fight as well, but not the same type as usual, these are wolves with tentacles that pop out at you. You'll also see a wide variety off cool bosses, a huge hulk like creature, a lake monster. All throughout the game the various enemies and bosses are intimidating and fun to fight. That's definitely one of this games strong suits, the addicting combat and well done enemies.
Even though Resident Evil 4 signified the end of the style I loved so much, this was undeniably a great game and must have been the best selling one for Capcom. I just wish they would have made some more with the classic style, instead of just focusing on the action element. After Resident Evil 4 it was all downhill, the franchise quickly became unrecognizable and 5 and 6 were pretty much just action shooters, tossing aside the horror aspect all together. Longtime fans like myself became unhappy with this new direction and lost interest in Resident Evil. Somehow, this series that I had loved for years got reduced to, some crappy action games with tons of quick time events, and a ton of terrible movies that had nothing to do with the original games. Luckily Capcom is righting the ship with Resident Evil 7, which was awesome, and the Remake of Resident Evil 2 coming soon. All that aside, this is an amazing game, one that I've played through countless times. And a game that is loved by longtime fans of the series as well as total newcomers. It's probably one of the all time best third person action shooter games that's ever been made. So I give Resident Evil 4 a.........................
90
Thank you for reading my review, I hope you enjoyed it!
Resident Evil 4 is an amazing achievement, especially in how its inspired, state-of-the-art cinematic presentation works so well with its relentlessly exciting, white-knuckle action. It says a lot when you can pop in a game over a decade old, and still get as engrossed into everything it has to offer like it was the first time ever experiencing it. If you have somehow still never played this game, put down whatever game(s) you are playing and make room for this survival horror smash. And if you've played it countless times on several platforms, it's still worth forking over a couple of bucks to revisit this legendary game.
I think youd better try to lets play it on Dtube :) but as for me i cant stand this graphics, idk why but i mentioned this disease when i played gothic 2, maybe bc my eyes are getting tired of it, but still game is much cooler than many modern games
For me, Leon is always the best RE character... even though I didn't like his story in RE6... (Liked him a lot in RE2 and RE4).
So RE4.. it wasn't as Good as RE2 in my opinion because it departed somewhat from what defined Resident Evil for me... sometimes I felt this is just mindless fights game other than a Horror Puzzle game as I felt in the first two.
Even though Resident Evil 4 signified the end of the style I loved so much, this was undeniably a great game and must have been the best selling one for Capcom.
Just as you said ^
.... I and my brother have a lot of the inside jokes about this game... many ones we are the only ones who can understand them.
This is the first Resident Evil I played, which must be the reason I fell so deeply in love with it.
After finishing this one, the other RE's that came out seemed dull and boring, this one had it all, variety, suspense, action and incredible boss fights.
And even though you have a plethora of weapons and items, if you are not careful, you will find yourself having to knife down a god damned giant..
Yes, that happened to me during my first playthrough, I was just running around the giant's legs while occasionally stopping to knife him ( because you can't run and knife at the same time ); it did seem like an eternity, because I was on the edge of my seat, hoping he won't bash me into the ground, which meant I had to do the same thing all over again.
Thankfully that didn't happen, and after 15 minutes of that, the giant finally fell to the ground. I FELT LIKE A GOD, I had a friend watching me the entire time, he couldn't believe his eyes. Sadly I didn't finish the game for some reason, and I lost my saves.
But I decided to give it another go. That being said, this second playthrough I ended up being more prudent with my ammo and started exploring more.
This time I had a quest, never remain out of ammo, to aid my quest I used the power of positioning and perfectly placed shotgun blows / grenades or mischievous actions like climbing up ladders and knifing anyone trying to climb the same ladder, sometimes even kicking the ladders where possible.
I had lots of fun with this game, and I must say it's one of the best I played, if you haven't played it yet, I highly recommend you do! You will thank me later.
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Resident Evil 4 is an amazing achievement, especially in how its inspired, state-of-the-art cinematic presentation works so well with its relentlessly exciting, white-knuckle action. It says a lot when you can pop in a game over a decade old, and still get as engrossed into everything it has to offer like it was the first time ever experiencing it. If you have somehow still never played this game, put down whatever game(s) you are playing and make room for this survival horror smash. And if you've played it countless times on several platforms, it's still worth forking over a couple of bucks to revisit this legendary game.
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yes ofcus i enjoyed it
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I think youd better try to lets play it on Dtube :) but as for me i cant stand this graphics, idk why but i mentioned this disease when i played gothic 2, maybe bc my eyes are getting tired of it, but still game is much cooler than many modern games
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you mean "old" PS2 graphics?
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Yeah, my eyes catch
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For me, Leon is always the best RE character... even though I didn't like his story in RE6... (Liked him a lot in RE2 and RE4).
So RE4.. it wasn't as Good as RE2 in my opinion because it departed somewhat from what defined Resident Evil for me... sometimes I felt this is just mindless fights game other than a Horror Puzzle game as I felt in the first two.
Just as you said ^
.... I and my brother have a lot of the inside jokes about this game... many ones we are the only ones who can understand them.
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I totally agree, thanks for reading my review!
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This is the first Resident Evil I played, which must be the reason I fell so deeply in love with it.
After finishing this one, the other RE's that came out seemed dull and boring, this one had it all, variety, suspense, action and incredible boss fights.
And even though you have a plethora of weapons and items, if you are not careful, you will find yourself having to knife down a god damned giant..
Yes, that happened to me during my first playthrough, I was just running around the giant's legs while occasionally stopping to knife him ( because you can't run and knife at the same time ); it did seem like an eternity, because I was on the edge of my seat, hoping he won't bash me into the ground, which meant I had to do the same thing all over again.
Thankfully that didn't happen, and after 15 minutes of that, the giant finally fell to the ground. I FELT LIKE A GOD, I had a friend watching me the entire time, he couldn't believe his eyes. Sadly I didn't finish the game for some reason, and I lost my saves.
But I decided to give it another go. That being said, this second playthrough I ended up being more prudent with my ammo and started exploring more.
This time I had a quest, never remain out of ammo, to aid my quest I used the power of positioning and perfectly placed shotgun blows / grenades or mischievous actions like climbing up ladders and knifing anyone trying to climb the same ladder, sometimes even kicking the ladders where possible.
I had lots of fun with this game, and I must say it's one of the best I played, if you haven't played it yet, I highly recommend you do! You will thank me later.
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This is one of my favorite games of all time, I remember playing this on the nintendo game cube.
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