An great remake
Resident Evil 4 puts you in the shoes of government agent Leon Scott Kennedy. His mission is to rescue to president's daughter from an unknown village in Europe. In this village he will encounter the good, the bad, and the just flat out ugly while he searches for Ashley Graham, the president's daughters.
The storyline is absolutely superb and each twist and turn will keep you guessing what's going to happen from your first step outside the police truck to the climactic jet ski escape. The game is filled with great characters who will go down in gaming history.
If you despised the old Resident Evil games due to the controls and camera then despise no more. Resident Evil 4 totally reinvents the series and genre with a refined, superb, control scheme and a great behind the shoulder camera angle. There's also a crosshair to help you out this time with nailing those head shots on those god awful Ganados. Also, the game is just flat out scary. It's moody and creepy and you will not want to play it in the dark. It's that scary. The boss battles will scare you to death and each outnumbered encounter (pretty much all of them) will scare you too.
The Wii controls add a whole new depth to the gameplay. You actually point at the screen to aim at your enemy and if you got a steady hand, this is control perfection right here. Also there are the context sensitive situation. Say you're reenacting Raiders of the Lost Ark, you must wave the Wiimote back and forth to sprint and then press A and B at the same time to dodge it. It's immersive, it's fun, it's perfect. There is a slight learning curve though, about 10-20 minutes, but once you master the controls you'll be pulling off headshots as good as a sniper.
The graphics are amazing too. The characters look amazingly real and the enviroments are amazing to look at. Also, you will never see a decapitation as real as this one in a video game. It's gross but it's awesome. Leon's hair moves when he quickly turns around and villagers clothes flow in the wind. The gun models look amazing also. The graphics are great.
The sound is also perfect too. The guns sound loud and realistic and hearing an enemies head blow up is joy to your ears. The voice actors are also great too. Forget about Barry "Mr. Ed" Burton's voice because this voice acting is where it's at. The voices sound realistic and not cheesy at all. All the actors play their characters with charisma it's just great. I'm also glad that this game makes little use of the Wiimote speaker. I just don't think anything sounds good coming out of it so I'm glad there is barely any sound from it.
All in all, Resident Evil 4 is the best game I ever played and the added Wii Controls just make it even better for me. It's better, it's scarier, and it's just plain funner. If you have the GC, the PS2, or (god forbid) the PC version, sell them right now because THIS is the version to have. It's only $30 and worth every cent. You're basically stealing it at that price.