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OXCGN Picks apart Resident Evil 5 - gives it a SOLID thumbs up

March 17, 2009 in Reviews comments 8

OXCGN reviewer Ben Cadwallader gives Resident Evil 5 a good going over and sees greatness in the game. Even with some flaws.

Check the review out, a decent read by the way, so grab a coffee and a biscuit before entering, but you'll enjoy the read once you are there.

Slip over to the site now and check it out

The long wait is finally over and Resident Evil 5 is finally out around the globe! But has Capcom’s latest entry in their popular horror franchise lived up to its huge hype or is the undead series mutating too much from its origins to be true survival horror fun?


Essentially while it’s hard to identify the game’s genre as ’survival horror’ anymore, Resident Evil 5 certainly does tell a great story and gives the player hours of great action gameplay. Maybe ’survival action’ would be a better description now.

Purists of the pre-Resident Evil 4 era will probably see this change in focus as meaning the franchise is running downhill instead of shuffling on like it should. Meanwhile, the new Gears Of War ‘run, cover, and shoot’ action crowd may find the game’s more slow and precise aim and shoot scheme too archaic for a this gen game. Most players, though, are in for a treat.
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    darkmurder Mar 17, 09
    This is a truly awesome game, Capcom have worked hard to bring out this beauty.
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      punksk8er Mar 17, 09
      Except of course they forgot to make cusomizable controls
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        Tiger of Wu Mar 17, 09
        They didn't forget, they just didn't care about people having them.
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          dwg14390 Mar 17, 09
          Actually I think they deliberately tried to make crappy controls.
          I mean back then it was cool, but since it's taken a whole turn on action, trying to add crappy controls then calling the game "horror" is a really lazy way saying they don't want to work hard.
          Just look at the Versus mode =/
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          Tiger of Wu Mar 17, 09
          See, now you're just trying to find places where you can insult the game, since no-one was talking about the quality of the control layout but the fact that they aren't customisable. Yes, there are a lot of things about the game you dislike, but just give it rest, we know already.
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          XboxOZ360 Mar 19, 09
          I don't think he's tryingto find fault, the game IS faulty in that regard. It's an excellent game, no questions there, but as far as being "user friendly' - Capcom have a LONG long way to go before they realise they are NOT the ants pants in the gaming world anymore, and if they continue to do games without customizable control options, like a huge % of developers do now, they they will lose customers.
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          Tiger of Wu Mar 19, 09
          That post is just one of many, on both GG and Neoseeker, in which he just rants about what sucks about the game.

          And secondly, he didn't once mention customizable controls, which was the topic at hand. Instead he just saw the word controls and decided to re-splurt the same old crap he has said a million times before. If you think that it's faulty in that regard, fair enough, but when you say it as many times as he has when it has been as irrelevant to the topic as it has, then it's fair to say that he's finding places in which he can insult the game (not finding fault within the game, but just looking for anywhere on these two respective websites where he can bitch about it).
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        XboxOZ360 Mar 19, 09
        They definitely needed to do that, the controls are veru awkward and not very intuitive at all.

        The dumb aim and freeze in your tracks thing is just damn annoying and frustrates the livin' heck out of me, no shoot around corners when in cover mode either - what were they thinking.

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