Resident Evil 4 - Gamecube
Resident Evil 4 is the best resident evil game in a series that has lasted since the early days of the Playstation. It is also one of the best games of this or any year and stands as one of the best horror games ever made. Even those who haven't enjoyed the series or genre in the past would be wise to give this game a chance as it reinvents every aspect of itself in the name fun.
Director Shinji Mikami stepped in halfway thru RE 4's design and totally started over. Gone are most everything that made the RE series a chore in the past. Things fixed or made better in RE4: proper 3rd person camera, proper 3rd person aiming, very limited inventory/saves/ammo/health, relentless backtracking, switching to your knife. In addition all the new features were added to serve one purpose: make the game more fun. Context-sensitive actions such as climbing, knocking down ladders, jumping thru windows, and attacking work surprisingly well. The revamped fighting is a blast with the "zombie's" location-specific damage, shooting projectiles out of the air, and protecting the president's daughter all being more fun than I possibly expected. All of this with an incredibly helpful map, perfectly based saved points (except right after the disk swap - arg!), a fun weapon upgrade/balance system, and a couple bonus modes when you beat the game that extend the already long (~20 hours) game indefinitely.
Oh yeah and the game is beautiful. This consistent an artistic vision hasn't been seen since Metal Gear Solid 2.
RE 4 has me wishing for the first time ever in the series "please keep the series like this!" I can't think of too much they could add or change to the next Resident Evil game to make it much better, which is definitely a first! In fact I pray that they don't make like this a lot of shooters and allow you to move and shoot 360 degrees at any time. The list of things that could be improved upon is short: better script/story, more scares per hour (I only jumped once all game), better weapon switching and possibly a sidestep.
RE 4 is a fantastic game. There is no reason to not own this game if you have a Gamecube and you like to shoot things.
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I remember when you got the gamecube. Good to see you're still putting it to good use.
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Oh yeah starcraft is till popular here...though not nearly as much as it is in korea. I hear that starcraft, warcraft 3, counterstrike, and world of warcraft are all big american games in korea. Possibly bigger than here.
ReplyDeleteNow if only I had a Gamecube... damn!
ReplyDeleteThey're pretty cheap right now...though the game is going to be ported to the ps2...I doubt it will look as good however.
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