Sure, you’ve got your Dead Spaces and the like, but that’s obvious. Again, Resident Evil 4 simply is.Īfter Resident Evil 4 sold its many millions of copies and became a critical darling praised in the East and the West, it went on to inspire developers across the globe. It’s silly, it’s camp, it’s macabre and it’s terror. How many games can balance a sardonic pensioner-child man belittling you in a pirate costume with the gut-wrenching feeling of having one last clip in that pistol you just know you should have upgraded, when the hooded man politely asks you “Whadaya buuyyyin?” but you decided to put a scope on your rifle instead? You know you can find pistol ammo in every second pot, man, c’mon. It’s all action and camp like any good B-movie, but the thrilling suspense of being chased by a mob of pitchfork-wielding villagers or the itch of isolation you feel as you stand along the castle walls is unlike any other I’ve known. This dichotomy is the true star of Resident Evil 4. You haven’t happened upon this immense danger – you’ve gone and sought it out. He’s a special agent out to save the daughter of the President of the United States, and that makes all the difference. This time around our favorite RE protagonist is no longer a new cop caught in an outbreak. You are the hot-muscle-bound-fantastic-haircut special agent. You’re not playing as a hot-muscle-bound-fantastic-haircut-perfect-quipping special agent. You’re in the action, watching the recoil of every shot from your pump shotgun or the mad slash of a chainsaw-wielding Las Plagas victim. You’re not watching an enemy from the corner-angle of a basement cellar slowly creep up to you. Here, for better and not worse, is the new third-person shooter.
Resident Evil 4 introduced an innovative behind-the-shoulder camera angle that you’ve seen in so many games. No more playing as your favorite characters. When you put that Resident Evil 4 disc in your console you said goodbye to the games of old and put them to bed. Better yet, the closest anyone ever really got to a true Hollywood action-type of video game were through cutscenes in Metal Gear Solid or the set pieces in Halo 2 (okay, let’s not talk poor of Halo 2). Lifelong Resident Evil fans were marred by the franchise’s recent releases like Resident Evil 3 and Code: Veronica while Capcom released new exclusive entries on the lackluster Nintendo Gamecube. The stage: Resident Evil 4 was originally released on January 11, 2005.
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