Its late so I will make this quick. I am PISSED that X is run and square is shoot, there better be a way to switch it cause 13 years of RE had the control schem one way, why in the hell change it now. Control scheme A is fine, you have to change aim to fastest, its the only way to get it to feel like RE4 aiming. Never once had an issue about not moving and shooting, works just as well as it did in RE4.
The game is a bit weird, bullets don't seem to have the same impact they did in RE4, melee attacks dont seem to have the same impact either. The camera is a bit off, Chris takes up too much of the screen. The real time inventory is handled ok but it causes me to never check my inventory, I swear I had no clue what I was picking up, whether I had herbs or not, I just did not have time to look, if it was not on the quick select buttons I probably ignored it.
AI Sheeva was fine, never really got into trouble, she did one stupid thing which was blow up a barrel in my face. The game feels too choatic, also the demo was more like a timed shooting area like the first section of RE4. But the first section of RE4 felt like it had structure, it felt more controled. Here it just feels like enemies are pouring out of everywhere just to have enemies everywhere and not to give you a specific type of battle. Something about this game feels off, its not the controls, or at least not in the way you guys look at it. I liked shanty town way better cause it had good beats to the action. BTW I did not die once.
That said it was still a lot of fun. I tried split screen co-op with a friend and we had a blast. Tomorrow I will really break it down.
dvader654
Why dont you try Control Scheme D? It's very similar to MGS4 in that pressing L1 takes you into aiming mode and R1 is to shoot. I say that because you were really good in MGO, so why shoot with Square? I had ZERO issues with the controls.
The realtime inventory system, however, doesn't belong in a RE game. Especially when you have to worry about an AI partner. But I guess I'll get used to it because Sheva like you said is perfectly capable of taking care of herself. She did die on me in the first level, she was off screen and all of sudden the screen flashed and she died. Weird. The chainsaw dude killed me with one blow (just like in RE4) when I was trying to find a grenade using the realtime inventory which sucked because I had three green herbs. That area when you have to provide her covering fire was a lot of fun, I was racking up headshots like there was no tomorrow. Then it was Sheva's turn and while she wasn't getting headshots, she was much at shooting enemies than any of the "humans" I've played Socom or MGO with. Oh andHeadshots are instant kills this time so that's a relief.
Shooting felt great though, L1 to go into aim mode, R1 to shoot, Right Analog stick to aim... perfect. Didn't feel like I needed to move while shooting, but they still should've included it. It's not a game breaker for sure, at least not for me.
But yeah, like vader said, something feels off. Maybe it's because both levels started abruptly and felt disjointed. There was a clear lack of "setup", maybe a cutscene in the beginning would've helped. The atmosphere too didn't feel scary. RE4's opening level took place during daytime, but was creepy as hell. The music in RE4 did a great job of creating this creepy atmosphere and it's just not there in RE5. It's probably because the game isn't finished and this is the E3 2008 demo afterall.
The graphics are one thing that left me unimpressed. The preview vids looked much better than what was playing on my screen. It's a good looking game for sure, but nothing mindblowing and definitely not as good as the trailers led me to believe. The cutscenes look much better though so maybe the extra coat of polish in the final build might mean the gameplay scenes will be on par with the cutscenes. I'd say it's on par with MGS4 right now, but Uncharted looks slightly better.
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