Resident Evil 5

chris balls

When you have a series of games, it's expected that they're going to be compared to each other. I myself have compared games in this very series (Resident Evil 4). While there is some merit in this, this often leads to expectations surrounding a franchise that might not have garnered attention otherwise. No franchise experiences this more then the resident evil franchise. Anytime a new RE comes out, it garners the question: does this "feel" like a Resident Evil game? What that means is a different thing to many people, for some, Resident Evil: Revelations [バイオハザード リベレーションズ] was a return to horror for the franchise, to others Resident Evil 2 was a bastardization of survival horror.

While this can be used to judge one's preferences, it also means one's ideological stance on a Resident Evil game prohibits a level of critique for some players who may think one entry is to actiony or to others who are bothered by the classic camera angles.

I think Resident Evil 5 suffered from these expectations more then any other RE game. Some would argue 6 experienced this judgement more, but RE5 disappointed both fans of 4 looking for a sequel, and fans of survival horror playing an action game.

While there's something to be said about both of those, often what is missed in critiques of RE5 is that this is just a really solid action horror game. While this game is rarely scary, it is tense and achieves the same feeling as RE4 being God Hand [ゴッドハンド] with a gun. Many of the levels expand and add new ideas to this sort of gameplay system. The new co op mechanics expand on these systems, and most of the new enemies (barring the guys with guns in the late game) are a welcome edition to this game.

It's also probably still the best co-op campaign you can play, creating many unique scenarios where one player does one task and the other does another. The first chainsaw man sequence has one player being forced to fight them alone while the other player can either shoot from a distance, or try to get in there and help. This is fairly simple but it creates tension for both players in different ways. It's creating a shared experience of two different events. Not many other co-op games can say this, as great as they may be. I do want to mention that this game is drastically worse with an AI co op partner, but I feel co op should basically be mandatory for this game.

Since gameplay tends to be very frantic, the new inventory system (while restricting and less creative then RE4) fits the game pretty well.

This game still looks gorgeous, MT Framework was a hell of an engine and there's a real harsh, bright, atmosphere this game has which fails on the horror side of things, but looks pretty great. Of course, like with every resident evil game the atmosphere contrasts the campy story, which leads to this game being one of RE's most absurd, over the top action hero stories the franchise ever saw. From villains injecting themselves with life altering viruses to the boat level (really creative level) being taken completely seriously, it's hard not to grin when playing this game.

And of course the game's got so much other great bonus content. Mercenaries gets bigger, better, and has co op added. Lost in nightmares is a complete tonal shift that changes how you play the game. There's an insane amount of new game plus content. And there's also one of the worst DLCs I've ever played!


It's not all better of course, there's a few areas that aren't particularly interesting, the on rails shooter section is mindless, chapter 5-2 is a mess, and the weapon balancing isn't nearly as well thought out as RE4 (there are multiple obvious best guns).

It's hard not to compare a game to it's predecessors (I did it multiple times in this review), but if you can look past it, I think you'll find a game much better then you remember. I predict when the RE5 remake comes out in a couple of years, you'll see the score on this site bump up quite dramatically (its already gone from a 2.92 to 2.99 in the course of about a year, memories will only grow fonder).

This game is bad, I mean it's an alright action game.

The AI is so bad, it can't combine any herbs, and it sometimes doesn't help, in one mission, I could take two different paths, one is getting up and Running away from Lickers, and the other was just defending the guy who went up, now I chose the path to defend the AI because the AI was too dumb to Protect me, but I saw my Playthrough before that there were like 12 grenade launcher acid rounds, which are huge for damage. So after I went there I wanted to get up again to get those rounds because the ai doesn't pick up anything, but the AI just didn't want to help me activate the Elevator again, if I was playing this with someone else it was easily possible but the AI just downright refused to do it. Also, Ammo/Gun management for the ai sucks balls.

the game might be fun if you play it coop but solo it's bad. Sometimes there is more action in cutscenes than in the game itself, the bosses are boring as hell, generally, the first half of the game was boring af, I don't even know what to say. The story was okay tho. Everything this game do does RE4 Better, The inventory system the atmosphere, the Enemy/boss Design, etc, the only thing this game does better is the PC port being smoother as it is a PS3 game and not a GC game, it has better graphics and more satisfying animations, otherwise, RE4 is way better than this. IDK why the ♥♥♥♥ Jill looks not even close to how she looked in RE3 to this lmao.

There were also some good parts, the end of the game was pretty good, Weskers Boss fight, and Last boss fight was good, except for every other boss in the game all pretty bad, Especially the one with the Flamethrower which took me like 20Min to beat, that was the most boring boss fight I ever had, I liked the free roam Mission with the boat, and I also liked the Zombies getting guns and I Could take cover and take them out, was refreshing but otherwise bad.

The first DLC: Lost in Nightmares, is Probably the best content in the game, but the Wesker boss fight was trash, with an Instant Death move, the AI would be able to stop that move, but it doesn't do that. So yeah you can just spam A and B the whole time as soon as the Animation starts and you can always 100% dodge. Otherwise great atmosphere, nice puzzles, and the monster you fight is also pretty cool, I liked it and it shows if Capcom Tries even with the RE5 Action game engine, it can be a good horror game. 7/10

The Second DLC: Desperate Escape, is just Trash, infinite zombie spawn, and guys that shoot at you with rockets. It's just bad and no fun. 2/10

Not too Excited for RE6 as that is Worse than this I heard.

I think at it's core, Resident Evil should be a fun time. It usually is for me, and I think that there's an understanding of where certain aspects can lack while not taking away from the general entertainment the game brings. Co-op is obviously preferred, it's basically how it was designed, and I tell you what beating the shit out of these fuckers with a friend can be damn fun. Good battles with zombies especially in mid-game areas really felt good to play through, and the odd characters and goofy narrative really added a lot to this. Now I can't tell you about how this feels as a successor to RE4, a game I still haven't played, but I can tell you that this is just a good time. Nothing too much more. Also Mercenaries is just as fun

Uma versão “emburrecida” de algo que eu gosto muito. Quase um Resident Evil for dummies. Nuances como o manuseio cuidadoso do inventário, estratégias para poupar munição, entre outras coisas, quase não são necessárias aqui.

Mas ao que se propõe - ser um jogo de ação com as mecânicas do antecessor - cumpre bem seu papel. O level design é bastante bom, os inimigos são suficientemente variados e a IA não atrapalha - às vezes, pasmem, até é útil. Certamente é ainda melhor em co-op.

De longe o jogo que eu menos gostei da franquia, mas bem bom mesmo assim.

I've played through this game three times. I I played it once around 2011ish and got pretty far but fell off because it was pretty boring. Years later I tried again and I finished but my opinion hadn't changed a whole lot. This time around, I am playing the PS4 download version and once again I found it pretty boring.

Granted, I've only played this game solo, so that's a problem there. In all my times grieving on the game, I've been told by people that they had fun playing it co-op. i can guess why but to me the game doesn't seem like it would be that much better with a friend.

Everything this game does is a technically upgraded but mechanically shallower take on something Resident Evil 4 did way better. I won't go don't like this interpretation of its African setting. I especially don't like the story which tries to cash a payoff cheque the franchise/narrative hasn't earned.

Being that this game is co-op focused, the main campaign isn't very tight. In fact, one of the things that disappointed me so much when I first played years ago was the fact that the main campaign isn't a self-contained set of levels, but rather the game uses this general inventory shared between playthroughs. It cheapened the experience for me, now and every time I've tried this game before it.

Still, it's still pretty decent to play. The combat is very infectious, and I couldn't help but nod my head in satisfaction each time a headshotted a zombie. And there's always Mercenaries mode, which emphasizes the best elements of gameplay.