Harsh hands on experience with Resident Evil 5 at the TGS!

Daigoji_Gai | October 09, 2008 | Blog | Playstation 3 XBOX 360

So, since I'm a channel manager I don't get to go on all the fun trips to events like the TGS... this year, we sent instead one of our new editors to cover the event. Here is his blog story on his experience with Resident Evil 5 and it is harsh.

After my hands-on with the latest RE, I felt a strong urge to hurl my controller against a wall. Why is there a rigid inventory system? Why are their potted herbs everywhere? Why can’t I walk and fire a gun at the same time? These mechanics feel like spoiled left-overs. You can try to defend these choices in two ways. Either way they were used to create a sense of suspense and horror to force the player to make quick decisions and to struggle with the environment around them or that these mechanics are fossils built for systems that couldn’t handle the advanced controls and mechanics used in more modern games like Gears of War. Either way, these design choices no longer make sense. Resident Evil is no longer a horror game and it should be controllable like a current game, not a ten-year-old game.

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Resident Evil 5 [PS3, XBOX360]

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3 thumbs!
iLLmatic | October 09, 2008 | reply

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Resident Evil is no longer a horror game and it should be controllable like a current game, not a ten-year-old game.
The damn truth
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Seeker X | October 09, 2008 | reply

About damn time something like this came along. Everyone's been riding RE5 JUST because of RE4 thinking this was gonna be *bleep*ing perfect too.
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BlackLabel | October 09, 2008 | reply

I hope this game gets ripped to pieces in the media just because if they keep getting high praise for dated gameplay nothing will ever change, this game looks like a lazy port of RE4 with new skins and a new map nothing else has changed. The fact this game has taken nigh on 4 years to make is shocking.
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  Final Blade | October 14, 2008 | reply
  
  _{I hope the game gets massive sales so then people thinking this game is shit will look stupid.
  
  Im with Killosity atm, I think the game is looking really good and thinking of getting it.}
1 thumbs!
Killosity | October 09, 2008 | reply

Im actually excited for the game now thanks to the 2 trailers from TGS. Watch the 5 minute one on gametrailers.

The story seems to be getting fleshed out and explained in this installment. The gravestone of Jill Valentine and the Wesker vs Chris is some absolutes from the trailer which will wrap up some aspects of the game. Co-op inclusion is fantastic.

To say nothing else has changed, is a little radical. The core gameplay formula for RE4 was good in my opinion, so Im happy they will stick with it for RE5.
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Deathsythe | October 10, 2008 | reply

quote Killosity
The story seems to be getting fleshed out and explained in this installment. The gravestone of Jill Valentine and the Wesker vs Chris is some absolutes from the trailer which will wrap up some aspects of the game. Co-op inclusion is fantastic.

I was actually a little disappointed with some of those new plot developments, but I am looking forward to it none-the-less.