A miserable port, save your money

User Rating: 1.9 | Resident Evil 4 (2005) PC
By tarbandu | Review Date:
Save yourself $20 and avoid buying this game. Even by the standards of console ports it’s a real turkey. Ubisoft / Capcom obviously put out as little effort as possible to tailor the game for a PC, and as a result it’s unplayable unless you have a gamepad. Throw in a camera point-of-view that is like something from the PS1 era, clumsy inventory and aiming systems, and a checkpoint-style Save game approach, and you’ve got major frustration. I even have second thoughts about using the DVD-ROM as a coaster.

It’s hard not to come away from the game with the feeling that, as one of a very few “mature” action games for the kiddie-console Gamecube, it got a lot of overly hyped praise from the Nintendo fanboys. Let’s face it, if playing Mario wasn’t your thing, the Gamecube had slim pickings compared to the Xbox and PS2, so RE4 got a lot of happy press it really doesn’t deserve.

With Capcom’s “Dead Rising” for the Xbox 360 also coming in as a mediocre effort (no matter how highly hyped by the “buy enough advertising and we’ll give your game a great score !” crews at OXM and EGM) there’s not much ‘zombie’ gamers can do… except continue to wait for Black Widow Games to finish development of They Hunger: Source and give the PC gamer world what they so desperately need: a good survival horror game.

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