Let’s go back to some years ago when I was still using my Gamecube as something other than a dust collector. During this time there was one game, and one game only, in said system; Resident Evil 4. No if, ands, or buts, it was the greatest game to be released for the prior generations systems. (This also made me feel special as most people still laughed at us Gamecube owners. But that’s for a different discussion) I spent many a sleepless nights (either from playing, or thinking about good ol’ potato sack chainsaw head) with this game. Many times I would even have an audience as I played. It was epic to me when I finally beat it. And my feeling after pure excitement was how on earth are they going to top this?
Well, last night I partially received my answer. The Resident Evil 5 demo is up on Xbox Live. And I know it is just a development demo and there are still a few bugs to be worked out (cough cough multiplayer, stasis zombies cough cough). But there are only audible sounds for how I felt playing for even a half an hour last night! I was like a 12 year old at a New Kids concert c. 1990!
A few quick things about the game: Game looks gorgeous. The explosions took my breath away! Game play wise, the controller works well. Glad to finally have a quick inventory selection option. Only problem was, and this may be for lack of looking but I couldn’t find a reload button. The single-player with two character seems a little to blah. Like Left 4 Dead, I bet the game shines on multi-player co-op. this game was built for co-op play. I can’t explain how much better the demo was playing with someone else; headset and all! I just wonder how the healing situation will work. I’m thinking it will be a true survival game there and make healing really scarce. I love the idea you can split up and support from roofs; genius. I don’t want to ruin too much of the demo here, but i have to mention the headsmen zombie… how freakin’ awesome! So in summary, March, apparently, cannot come soon enough.
Oh and one final observation, has Redfield been on the ‘roids? His arms are enormous in this game! Look at those things!
