FTWer said:
PSXExtreme (Polish
multi-platform magazine,
NOT the website)
Score: 9-/10
- Outside of co-op, it's basically RE4 HD.
- Story info: The game explains how the virus came into existance, describes events that happened even before RE0 and sheds new light on a few things. Las Plagas are also involved in the African incident.
- The destructability of the environment has been somewhat improved but it's still limited to what the designers allow us to destroy.
- Sheva's AI is pretty good: she moves away from our line of fire, provides help when needed, pick up ammo and herbs that the player misses and so on.
- Co-op is fantastic and he really likes that a second player can join in at any given moment (though if a person does join us we are automatically brought back to the last activated checkpoint)
- There's no merchant in the game, all our weapon purchases/ upgrades are carried out in a menu accessed between chapters. On that note, you're always short on cash because there's a plethora of weapons to buy/ upgrade. (about the Upgrade system: you upgrade the Firepower, Reload Speed, Capacity and Critical Hit %)
- He says that the biggest "issue" in the game is the control system. It's a like it or leave it relationship. He, himself, states that at first he had a negative approach to this archaic control scheme but now he understands that it was a conscious design decision. This control scheme lets the enemies get the drop on us and makes the game more challenging.
- The context sensitive cover system is introduced along with the gun wielding Majini.
- He mentions that he wishes this game would have more trickier to take down foes like the Regenerators in RE4.
- The boss fights are a bit worse than in RE4.
- The says that the villige looks phenomenal (especially durning the day) but it goes downhill from there. The Factory and the Caves lack finesse, however, the latter can mesmerize you with its lightining effects and excellent texture work.
- The "puzzles" (if you can call them that) in RE5 boil down to go there, get the key, turn the velve and so on.
- The game looks a bit better on the Xbox360 but those are minute details which likely most people won't even notice.
- The character models are top notch.
- The characters themselves are rather bland personality-wise. The dialogues in the game are rather mediocre, however, the voice acting is fine.
- The story as a whole is rather bland, predictable and unispired but RE fans will be satisfied with it.
- It took him 12 hours to complete the game but he immediately returned to it because of the plentiful bonuses and unlockables.
Some side notes:
- Monsters from RE1 will make a comeback.
- They were forbidded by CAPCOM to write about a certain someone appearing in the game, the bonus mode and the other unlockables, certain locations in the game, print screenshots from the final chapter of the game or those showcasing QTEs.
I must be a chump because everyone I know is just picking up the standard edition.
