A little less RE, a bit more like everything else....

User Rating: 8 | Resident Evil 5 X360
Pros- The world in RE5 is beautiful. The locations and lighting in the game are awesome. The game gets super crazy super quick and the newly added Co op feature is way better then i though it would be. We had decided to play on Veteran (Hard) mode seeing as we though playing it on an easier mode in Co-op would have been to easy. The new melee system is a blessing to clear out groups of guys when your surrounded and there's always plenty of areas to duck off into if you get trapped in a corner. The voice acting is spot on and fits well for all the characters and isn't overly corny and cheesy. The new map system is great to help show you where you need to go, find your partner, and during boss battles there's a marker to help show you where hes sneaking around at so you don't get surprised by a hit from behind. When healing your partner if you're within the mist of the healing item it also heals your health with is a nice added bonus. Being able to swap items on the fly helps too. So if your partner is loaded up on shotgun ammo and your running low they can toss you some of theirs. There is plenty of customizable weapons and collectibles to collect. Every level has little blue emblems hidden through out them coming to a total of 30. You can use this to buy artwork, movies, figurines, and other goodies.

Con - The characters are ugly. They are very bland, and almost robotic. It also seems as though the enemy models are overly recycled. In RE4 the local "zombie" characters seemed more varied but it seems like the same 3 and a women are trying to kill ya. Although it adds to the strategy of the game I'm going to throw in the lack of ammo as a con to me cause i hate running out of ammo with 8 guys running after me considering a full clip of ammo usually takes 1 guy down. Although noted above that I like the item passing its frustrating with ammo. For some reason you transfer 30 ammo at a time. So if you just want to help reload your partner you have to give them all your ammo unless your stocking more then 30 bullets. They butchered the RE formula making it way to much of a standard 3rd person shooter. Each "level" is a start here run to the end and your done. Where is the backtracking across the entire world to get into a single door to get ammo? Chris Redfield is a tool, and Leon would have been WAY better! (Had to throw that in there Tony!).

I'm sure i could sit down and fit a lot more into this but im not going to get all geeky and hardcore about it. Just thought id let the world know how i feel personally about the game thus far. Its a pretty sweet game and by all means i recommend it to anyone looking for a new game wither your an RE fan or not. If I can come up with anything new or interesting to say about RE5 i will post it. But in a nutshell I would say my overall score would have to be a 8/10.

Rob Hinton AKA Hintonian19