Resident Evil 4 by far, is one of the innovative games ever made, and if possible a step forward from the series...a huge one at that. I did see why people got so short-changed in their expectations on the premise of it being not a neck-munching, foot-biting horror "thingy". I am a huge fan of the RE series and, come to think of it, I welcome the change very openly. You see, after playing countless times with third-person-y RE games, it grows old (however, it took a long time though and I still play those games time and again). If you can imagine having to shoot zombies that trot towards you ever so slowly...and sometimes fast, it would definitely be a very slow game and not to mention--very easy. If you have noticed, most game critics do not favor games that does not flower into progress. No matter how we, the fans would like it that way (the old way), sooner or later it will grow old. The horror that people that are talking about that wasn't there in RE 4, it's still there. It's just that, it's being overwhelmed by the gaming structure that you hardly know that it's there. Previous RE reviews are littered with the term "the same old premise" and the fans would sometimes get dismayed at how these wonderful games are always reviewed the same way. What can CAPCOM do? It's how a game should be, always moving forward. And the options that are so well used in RE 3, RE 4 pushes it forward with button mashing synchronity, much more intense than just choosing from 2 options at a time.
Bottom line is that RE 4 offers a very fast, more involving game play that puts the gamers right beside the character themselves. I'm sure we'd be seeing more zombies in following RE future. Remember, if you have listened carefully to the story, the virus from Raccoon City is still there (well at least just a sample of it and glimmer of hope for us RE old fans). That's basically what Leon had to deal with once he got to rescue the president's daughter. Ada was in it too, infiltrating the gaming field to acquire the virus sample from previous RE (maybe even the crudest form from Lord Spencer's Mansion--as told in CODE VERONICA in premise to the mansion from RE 1). Who knows? If not from RE 5, maybe we'd see a combination of the ganado murderers and the undead zombies from RE 6 and so on. Wouldn't that be great?
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