RE4 is Resident Evil At It's Best
RE4 picks up six years after the events in Racoon City. The once powerful Umbrella Corperation, has collasped under the fallout from the Racoon City incident. The player takes control of Leon, a member of an elite government unit tasked with protecting the President's daughter. When the president's daughter is kidnaped by a mysterious cult operating out an old spanish village, Leon is deployed to rescue her. However he finds that the villiage's inhabitants have been driven completely insane by the cult, and Leon must fight his way through the village, in order to accomplish his mission.
All in all the game is a fairly well done port, preserving much of RE4's atmosphere, and dark storyline. The atmosphere is only enhanced by the game's graphics, which are Wii graphics at their best. The enemies the player entounters through out the game are extremely well done, and have a nice depth of realism to them in both their appearence and behavior.
However, like every game, even RE4 has it's flaws, and the biggest of these are it's controls. While the WiiMote's motion sensing technolgoy is used to aim your weapon and preform meele attacks, this can become very dissorenting, especally in the thick of a battle. However the worst feature the game has is that the B and A buttons are swapped. Instead of A preps your weapon and B (the trigger button) fires, B preps your weapon and A shoots. This set up ultimatly makes use of a lightgun accessory all but immposible, and will alienate many gamers who are used to the trigger button being the fire button. The game's other major flaw is that you are unable to change the button layout.
Dispite the flaws it has with the controls, RE4 is actually one of the best Wii games out there, and a excellent hard core game that the Wii desperatly needed in order to break it's kids only feel. Over all the game will appeal to fans of Resident Evil and Survival Horror in general.