The Guildmasters

Yes started to play RE5 today, in some ways it was excellent, I am really enjoying the game but at the same time there is a bit of disappointment there.

I was surprised they took the merchant away, he was an excellent addition to RE4 but again I like the fact the inventory system means you can carry unlimited amount of things, well at least to a certain degree, you can’t access the full inventory until the end or beginning of each level, during each level you can carry up to 9 items, you can still combine the herbs which is good.

The most noticeable change ( apart from graphics ) is the Zombie’s, they are so fast now, it is a very fast paced game, when you come across enemies it’s usually in groups so you’ve got 4 or 5 minutes of non-stop action, panic almost in some areas, ammo is fairly limited especially early on, my first two groups of zombies was mostly fought with the knife.

Something I miss from RE4 is the lack of speed, I liked being able to work out what my next move would be, knowing the enemy was slower than me gave me the chance to experiment with tactics whereas RE5 is so quick you don’t have chance for tactics, you can’t outrun the enemy so it’s a stand and fight or die situation, although in a few areas if you get the chance you can get yourself on higher ground to pick enemies off more leisurely.

Well I played with my son for about 4hrs straight and we made it to chapter 3-1 and called it a day, i’m pleased with the game overall, just miss some of the aspects of  RE4 but i’m still getting used to this, resident evil fans will love it, it will be another keeper i’m sure.

Will  update as a review once completed, looking forward to the unlockables, it seems there might be more than in the previous resident evil, plus we have trophies to go for now which I think is fun.

Tony

I played this game for more than 6 months, I completed it at least 4 times, got every mercenary quest done, absolutely contagious this game was for me.

The storyline was very cool in the usual resident evil way, the merchant  guy was probably my favourite character, it was amazing when he first appeared, I couldn’t stop laughing he was just so cool. “what a ya buying?” ” what a ya selling?” reminded me of a pirate dude.

In fact when I came across a guy in Oblivion called Shady Sam he reminded me so much of the merchant  in resident evil 4 I went back and played it again for a couple of weeks.

There are so many different forms of enemies in this game and the boss fights are really enjoyable, a vast range of weapons and quick pace set this game up for me as one of the all time greats of the resident evil series.

I’m writing the review now as i’ve just ordered the new Resident Evil 5 for my ps3 and i’m hoping it’s going to live up to the same standards as number 4, the only preview i’ve seen on RE5 was a quick glimpse of Whesker so hopefully 5 will be better than 4, looking forward to it.

It can get difficult at times to upgrade your weapons so you do need to find all the gems which fit into the various treasures so the items are worth more, fitting items into items typically increases their value many more times than if you sold the item seperately.

Once i’d played through about 3 times was when I then opted to try the mercenaries, that is hard, your either going to enjoy it or get really frustrated with it and probably destroy your tv, it’s great fun, if you haven’t played Resident Evil 4 you should, definitely.

Overall rating i’m giving another 10 out of 10, I know it seems like i’m being generous with the ratings but i’m not, it mostly takes a top notch game to keep my interest now, I know what it takes to make a really good RPG so most of the games i’ll write reviews on will almost certainly be a 9 or 10.  I don’t really see the point in writing a bad review on a bad game, I just simply won’t recommend a bad game so if i’m not going to recommend something why write about it, makes sense to me.

Tony