Resident Evil 5
Experience the thrill and terror all over again with Resident Evil 5 for PS3. Featuring Chris Redfield of the original Resident Evil and Sheva Alomar, a West African agent of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA), this sci-fi survival game is staged in a remote desert colony packed with hordes of fast-moving, quick-thinking enemies that represent a whole new breed of evil.
Cooperative game play options let you take teamwork to a new level. View larger. |
Dramatic graphics and lighting effects add a realistic edge to your mission. View larger. |
Move through vast environments that have a discernable impact on game play. View larger. |
You’ll face faster enemies backed by improved AI. View larger. |
Meet Two Fierce, Playable Main Characters
Back from the original title and Resident Evil: Code Veronica, former S.T.A.R.S. special forces team member Redfield is a battle-tested, founding member of the BSAA. With a reputation for superior marksmanship and phenomenal hand-to-hand combat abilities, he’s on the ground and up against a new strain of evil.
You’ll call his shots from the same over-the-shoulder third person viewpoint that distinguished Resident Evil 4, except this time you’ll also have the option of playing as his teammate, the fierce, local Alomar. Whoever you play as, updates to the earlier version’s third-person control scheme offer more options and promise intuitive interactions.
Learn to Work Together
The new cooperative game play element focuses on the realities of a dual-agent mission, highlighting the ways in which Redfield and Alomar must work together to survive the unexpected, while still allowing them to split up and work alone. To help you maximize the potential of this setup, two-player online and offline co-op modes ensure that you have options when picking a partner.
Steel yourself Against the Harsh Reality of Kijuju
An advanced version of Capcom’s proprietary MT Framework game engine brings groundbreaking graphics and effects to Kijuju, the highly-developed environment where this game’s action takes place. New, lifelike lighting schemes highlight the differences between harsh sunlight and extreme darkness, and when you move from one to the other, you’ll have to wait for your character’s eyes to adjust before you can see clearly, adding to the suspense and challenge of navigating this game’s environs.
Face the Next Generation of Evil
You’ll face new enemies with faster reflexes and improved AI, designed to be as dangerous alone as they are in groups and to keep even Resident Evil masters on their toes. Thankfully, they’re not the only ones who have evolved. This game also offers access to powerful new weapons variations that extend your destructive capabilities.
And the updated, quick-select inventory system allows for real-time inventory management, as well as allowing characters to trade items and allowing you to place an item on the directional pad for instant access. Add all this to a detailed storyline the touches on what the past ten years have meant for Redfield and a Hollywood-caliber soundtrack, and it’s clear that the latest installment in this series really does showcase all the elements at the heart of horror gaming.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Must Have for ps3
Its like re4 but with online. Its great a little trouble getting used to te controls but its perfect.
5 Stars excellent game!
Resident Evil fans won’t be disappointed with this one at all, cooperative game play for the first time and still maintains RE essence.
4 Stars Best split multiplayer screen game on the PS3
This game is meant to be played with a friend. Sure its got its flaws: bad acting, cliche plots, and it could’ve been A LITTLE bit more scarier, BUT… all these are turned up-side-down into positive points when you play with a friend, cause you actually end up making fun of these things.
The playstation 3 lacks offline multiplayer games with a mission, but between LittleBigPlanet and Resident evil 5 (wow can’t believe i just put these two together in a sentence), we’ve got a pretty good arsenal. (the Xbox360 ALSO got resident evil 5).
Turn off all the lights in the room and enjoy.
P.S. there’s this Tomb raider chapter that we could’ve managed without.
1 Star Great graphics, awful game play, feels tired and predictable
As a huge fan of the Resident Evil franchise, I couldn’t wait for this to come out. Now that it has, I realize this game was all hype and no substance. For starters, the controls are VERY awkward. You spend time thinking about how you will execute the movement in parts of the game when they should just come natural. The biggest flaw design is that the designers have set up the game play where you must decide what items you want to use for each chapter BEFORE you begin the chapter. This seems fine at first, but as you play the game, they don’t even give you the option to drop ANY items! So once you are full you are STUCK with them. How stupid is this??? Then there is the story. The designers decided to tie ALL the Resident Evil stories together to give it a sense of “full circle”. Initially this seemed intriguing, but then as you play the game, the SAME old bosses that you encountered in Resident Evil 4 are here too. You attack one and the little creatures spring out from his back or head. Gee, didn’t see that one coming. But what really got me was their decision to go from a night time horror game to a daylight one. You can see EVERYTHING in the day light. What genius thought this up? Since the bad guys can be seen, they have them “hiding” in areas where it doesn’t make much sense, like the marshland. They were hiding in the water and just jumped out. I know they are infected with the Las Plagas, but can they BREATHE underwater? Apparently they can. Then absolute worst part and horribly corny is these infected beings (I can’t call them zombies since they are really not zombies) will RUSH up to you and attack and then almost come to a stop when they approach you. Oh and they like riding motorcycles too. Speaking of running, you can’t reload when you are running. Your character comes to a COMPLETE stop to reload. Ugh, can it get any worse?? Yes, it can. Your partner Sheva’s artificial intelligence is okay, but not the best. When she is armed with a gun and she runs out of bullets, for some reason she doesn’t switch over to the grenades or other weapons. She will switch from gun to gun, but when she’s out of ammo for those, she will go to the knife. You’ll also find that she uses ammo like it’s going out of style, you are always giving her bullets. I really wanted to like this game, but it’s just tired and predictable. I laughed when the “mystery” character that saved Irving appeared. Why was he dressed like Batman? Didn’t have the ears but it was close. Completely laughable. And they call this survival horror? Please, not a single thing was scary. The game play was boring and not even exciting. No sense of urgency or anything. I felt like I was going through the motions. All of their their previous games gave a sense of fun and excitement. Not this one. We’ve seen it all before in their other games. It’s as if they remade RE 4 and changed a few things. Completely boring. The graphics and sound however is incredible. If you have an audiophile system with an HD TV, it looks and sounds awesome. But you know what they say, all style and substance. That accurately describes this game. Save your money and don’t buy this. This is without question the WORST Resident Evil game in the series.
1 Star The worst Resident Evil ever
This is the worst Resident Evil included Resident Evil 4, its an action game without the horror like RE1, 2, 3 or Code Veronica.
I bought this game because I want to know how the history ends, but I knew that this game will be a bad game.
I love the original Resident Evil (RE1, 2, 3 or Code Veronica) because the syntesis were the horror, how you are walking in the corridor and how a zombi jump to you and this kind of things.
But this game its not RE, its only to run away from the thousand of guys, another thing is that the puzzles doesnt exist in this game, you only shoot shoot and shoot.
For mi its not a RE, this is a great deception, I hope that Capcom fix the next RE and make it like the originals, without accion and more horror.
