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Resident Evil 4

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game. Lots of scary fun, with very good graphics and cut scenes. I would recommend this highly for some addictive entertainment.

Kick it up a notch

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What do you get when you take the classic Resident Evil formula -- shambling hordes, red and green herbs, and plenty of firearms at hand -- and then make the enemies smarter and faster, revitalize the gameplay by updating the control scheme, add some of the best graphics ever seen on a home console, and throw in some film-quality voice acting to boot?

What you get is Resident Evil 4, the best Resident Evil game in the whole series.

RE4 is definitely a new entry in the series, an original in its own right. The gameplay has been improved immmeasurably by an over-the-shoulder perspective that moves with the character constantly, a method which is both dramatically easier to use and immensely intuitive. The voice acting, usually sub-par to average for the previous Resident Evil games, is substantially improved here. The graphics are absolutely beautiful, utilizing complex terrain and environments which seem to live and breathe, and rich character models that almost seem like they could jump right out of the screen. The addition of a simple economy/market system for new weapons and upgrades adds a new dimension never seen in Resident Evil before. The story is a departure from the tropes of the previous games, though it still has its roots in familiar places.

And yet, despite these improvements (and they are ALL improvements), there's enough of the classic Resident Evil here to satisfy the diehard fans of the series. Plenty of nasty beasties to fight with a variety of weaponry, and if you aim well heads will still explode and bodies will still burn. Green, red, and yellow herbs are still here to heal you, and you'll still find the occasional can of First Aid Spray as well. The main character in this one in Leon Kennedy, last seen as a rookie cop in Raccoon City in Resdient Evil 2, now working for the U.S. government, tougher and stronger and ready for a new challenge. Other familiar characters will also appear along the way, including a couple of old favorites from the previous games.

Resident Evil 4 is a long game, too, taking many hours for the initial run-through, withs lots of replayability once the first time is done. After you finish the first game, new games become available, including "Mercenaries," a free-for-all shooting match, "Assignment: Ada," in which you take on the short mission of one of the other characters, and new for the PS2 version of the game, "Separate Ways," a five-chapter story filling in some of the gaps that the main storyline doesn't completely explain. And once you finish those, you might be ready to try the main game again in Professional mode for a bigger challenge. Rest assured, many hours of gore-streaked play await you with Resident Evil 4.

As much as I love the original Resident Evil games and the way they do what they do, I was glad to see that the makers of this game took some risks and breathed new life into the undead. By making a few changes, they actually made the experience of this game more like playing the original for the first time, and all the delightfully twisted, disgusting, scary fun that entailed.

A Highly Effective - But Not Too Radical - Change in Direction For Resident Evil

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Resident Evil 4 - which is actually somthing like the 15th game under the Resident Evil banner, but the fourth of what are considered the 'main' games - takes a definate turn away from its predecessors but manages to keep itself firmly within the established action-horror mode of the rest of the series. Rather than a new outbreak of T-virus-spawned undead, the zombies are actually absent entirely this time around, and familiar trademarks like Raccoon City and the Umbrella Corporation get brief mention. The new enemy is spawned by a parasitic lifeform called Las Plagas, and though similar to the zombies in ways, is smarter and capable of mutating into progressively more inhuman forms as the game progresses.

The setting for the game is that a college-aged girl named Ashley, daughter of the US president, has been kidnapped by a mysterious group called Los Illuminados. The player takes on the role of Special Agent Leon Kennedy (who was in previous RE games), who's dispatched to a remote corner of an unnamed European country to follow up on a lead. Following an attack at a small rural farmstead, in which assailants murder the two local policemen assigned to assist in the case, Leon, communicating with the US through a radio commlink, finds himself fighting his way through the forest towards more clues as to what's going on.

The chief enemies, the ones that there are swarms of, are called Ganados, and are inhabitants of the countryside who've been infected with the parasites. They fill the role of the zombies from the other games, attacking en masse, but smarter and working together. Initially looking human, they use weapons like pitchforks, torches and chainsaws, but, on an individual basis, are clumsy and awkward (although capable of running). More horrific Plaga-infected enemies are encountered later on, some of them mindless monstrosities and others talking, thinking members of the Los Illuminados hierarchy. The games progresses through little villages, a large quarry, castle settings, a deadly lake, and other such locales. Allies are encountered but you generally don't get to play as them. The exception is Ashley herself, who becomes the playable character a couple of times. The game winds through a cool progression of battle scenarios, sinister envirornments, puzzling out secrets and discovering the history and intentions of Los Illuminados and the Las Plagas. The Las Plagas themselves turn out more interesting than one might think, for what, at first, seems to be just a microscopic parasite wielded by a shadowy organization to create an obediant army. Very good story unfolding, although I personally found the finale, in some ways, a bit anticlimatic (although the as-the-end-credits-roll glimpse back at the village, very peaceful and idyllic before the parasites arrived, adds a potent touch).

There are the usual kind of flaws in reasoning that you often get in games like this, that would be terrible flaws in a movie or book but aren't as bad in a video game, i.e. the character can carry around an absurd amount of weapons and supplies without being visibly loaded down; you can be almost killed by terrible injuries but healed instantly by a first-aid spray, etc. These really make no sense and are just put in to make a game more fun. You could have the character just carry a single gun and quite a large ammount of ammo and it would be far more realistic, but it's more interesting to be able to have your character switch between pistol, uzi, shotgun, mine-thrower, etc. as the situation calls for it. Some games have found ways around the flaws in logic by making the healing items magical and thus more potent, by letting the character only carry a smaller amount of stuff but letting him/her build up a stockpile of it in a location that can be accessed frequently (such as shifting items back and forth between the 'normal' world and its 'nightmarish world' counterpart like Silent Hill 4: The Room did), others just let it go like Res. Evil 4 does. In most ways, I, and probably a lot of other players, like for a game like the Resident Evils to try and be plausible, but the things like 'how much can the character carry' just don't do that much harm to the game even when they're not believable (now it would get really annoying if the Resident Evil Movies let characters each carry an arsenal on their backs and in their pockets). The prescence of the arms dealer, roaming at will through the game without the Los Illuminados seeming to mind, is also rather unrealistic, but there he is, waiting for you to buy weapons and sell treasures you've uncovered.

Once beating the game once, you unlock bonuses, including three separate mini-games. In two of these, you play as Ada Wong, off on her own missions through Illuminado territory; one of them shows how certain unexplained events in the main game unfold, although it's a question of individual preference whether these should have been explained or left as mysteries. In the third, you start off with Leon and proceed to unlock 4 other characters, who you can send on timed missions where you just try to rack up points by wiping out as many enemies as you can before your evac chopper arrives; there are 4 different locales to be played through in this one and its non-story, points-oriented style is a nice contrast to the rest of the game.

Good graphics, good gameplay, a nice playing length where you don't end up running through the whole thing in way too short a time, and better voice acting than some of the other (primarily early) games in the series all add up to help make this one nice package. Reccommended for all fans of horror video games and high firepower, high carnage action games.

This game is a GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you think you are a gamer, try this. Don't give up after passing the first town, it gets better and more interesting. I used to think that God of War was the best game I have played, but in My Opinion Resident Evil 4 is now my favorite game (for the PS2). The PS3 has better graphics, but a game is more than just that. Acting, story, sound, etc. This game has it all.

My little cousin came over my place once and saw me playing and his thoughts were, "that game has no graphics", but then he turned off his PSP and decided to see me playing instead. Even my wife loves it.

"Agarrenlo"; "Welcome Stranger"

The Best Resident Evil Game In The Franchise

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Resident Evil 4 is by far the best Resident Evil game. In it, there really aren't zombies, but crazy towns people with little creatures inside of them.
Capcom and the designers of Resident Evil definately fixed the error of Resident Evil Code Veronica X, and put in a lot more ammo. The even added a money system, and first person shooting system for your rifle/sniper.
It is very challenging, and will provide about 20 hours worth of fun for experienced gamers. You'll enjoy the plot and the ending and hours of gory excitment and scares.

MCL,
Bezerk The Antichrist

Simply amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well what can I say about RE4.Six years after the T-virus outbreak in Raccon city the returing survivior Leon Scott Kennedy now has a new mission.Save and protect the damesal in distress Ashely Graham from hordes of enimies.Now their are a few major changes in this game.For one the new over the shoulder shooting system replacing the traditional up,down,and foward system.Another change is the massive amounts of weapons and ammo you get in this game.In RE4 capcom dares you to fight the multitude of enimies and monstrosities in this game.Another change is the fact that you can stun enimies and kick or do a suplex which is a great way to conserve ammo.Now the AI is smart in this game they'll set up bear traps,chuck dynamite,set up tripwire explosives,and if youre distracted they'll try to take Ashely and if they do its game over for you and Ashelies only defense is calling Leon.The boss fights are even better you actually have to think out a straegy other than just point and shoot.Now for the bad.Well nothing bad is in this game.To put it simply RE4 is simply amazing and will satisfy your crave until RE5 comes out next year

One of the Greatest Games for the PS2!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

For me playing on the PS2 has been mostly been same old traditional save the town or girl from destruction type, but Resident Evil 4 is a whole new story! I really like this game! Great story, Great Graphics, and more! If you are looking for a game to play on your console and dont have this game! I recomend this game! 2 thumbs up! Your money will not go to waste! also its important to read everyones reviews besides mind to get others opionion about this game and that applies about to everything on Amazon.com! 5 Stars!!

What A Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wow, Resident Evil 4 sum's on in one word; Great. Why? Read on.

RE4 starts out with Leon pretty much explaining what happen after RE2; he joined a anti-Umbrella organization secretly run by the government to take Umbrella down, it was there that he was hired by the President himself to rescue Ashley Graham (the president's daughter).

The game takes place off the coast of Spain where he discovers that there is a HUGE cult following by Lord Saddler whose controls the villagers with a virus known as Las Plagas. Leon goes through the villages trying to find out if he can find Ashley, he does find her in a church on the outskirts of the village but it than confronted by Saddler whose main reason was kidnapping the President's daughter was to hold her hostage for a ransom to "keep the church running".
After finding Ashley, they try to get off the island alive (and once Ashley is with you, if she get's kidnapped the game is over and you pretty much have to start off from where from your last check point) but their plans get hijacked when their helicopter get's blown up by the villagers.
Leon and Ashley than meet Ramon Salazar in the castle they run into. Now this is where the game starts to get a little tough because ammo is kind of scarce (unless you beat the game along with the two mini-games than you have the Chicago Typewriter and the Rocket Launcher, more on that later) and some of the enemies are pretty hard to take down with just a regular pistol. So CONSERVE your ammo when in the castle, you're going to need it for later.
In the castle, it's there that you find out that Ashley and Leon have been injected with Las Plagas too, so now it's a race against time before the eggs hatch inside of them and they become one of "them".
As you get deeper into the castle, Ashley falls into one of their castle's MANY traps and now you have to rescue her, but once you do, you get to play as Ashley, but the down part is this; she has NO WEAPONS. None. So you have to use ween your way through the enemies (and trust me, playing Ashley is no walk in the park).
After rescuing Ashley, she again get's kidnapped and taken to an island (thanks to Salazar) and this is where you have to fight Salazar. The Salazar fight is kind of tricky because you just can't blow him up (he's protected by a shield), instead, you have to shoot an 'eye' in front of him and blow him away with whatever you got.

After defeating Salazar, you than head to the island for the final fight with Saddler (that's a little later in the island) but first, you have to go through some pretty hard baddies; one of them being a chain-gunning villager who is particularly not easy to just take down with a pistol (I like the magnum), but like the castle, this level is HARDER; why? Little or no ammo hanging around (and again, you're going to need it) for you to grab.
After going through the island, you than face a "repeater"; it say's it in the name; you shoot off one of the arms, it grows back. The trick to kill this baddie is to kill the Las Plagas in his body (using the sniper rifle) with a custom scope you find in one of the labs.

As you get closer to Saddler, you run into an old "friend" of Leon's: Jack Krauser. Except this is in a cut scene and one thing about the cut scene is RE4 is that you HAVE to react by pressing the right button at the right time. In this scene, it's a knife fight with Krauser and this is one of the HARDEST part's of the game because you have to pay special attention to which button to press.
After that is said and done (thanks to Ada who is also in the game, but she is there for another purpose), you move again and get Ashley back, but she get's kidnapped (again). You than have to fight Krauser before you get Ashley back (because he has Ashley locked in a cell by him) and fighting Krauser is not easy because he turns his arm into a deadly wing and can easily kill you in two hits! So be careful. I recommend using the Magnum against him (15 or 20 shot's should have him done in) but you don't kill him, he use's a smoke bomb to disappear into thin air.
After rescuing Ashely (for the final time), you finally run into Saddler and kill him with a rocket launcher Ada gives you. After blowing him up, you have to get off the island alive using a jet ski and go home.

Now, just playing RE4 one time is not enough; once you beat the game you get the rocket launcher with infinite ammo that can be used in the main-game, and professional mode (which the enemies take more hits, and you get less ammo, good luck because you're going to need it but after beating Professional Mode, you get the hand-cannon which kills the Las Plagas in the body of your enemies) but also the side-games like Assignment Ada (after beating this, you get the Chicago Typewriter for the main game) and the Mercenaries game where you basically try to kill all of the villagers in a amount of time, and if you do you get to play as Albert Wesker, Jack Krauser, Hunk, and Ada Wong.

If you are looking for a game that (I think) is the best RE in the series thus far, look no further than RE4.

THE BEST RESIDENT EVIL ..... BUT ..... THIS GAME WAS SUPOSED TO BE A RESIDENT EVIL GAME?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is excellent , the story is completelly diferent from the OTHER resident evils , no zombies , no umbrella , i think that this game was suposed to be a DIFFERENT TITLE and was FORCED to become a resident evil game , but even so it's a great game

I Just did not like the fixed camera angle , it's a little confusing and limits sight .

it is my all time favorite GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

All new residentevil fans; resident evil4 is the best game I have ever played in my life! The graphics are real cool and the blood is fine and gore is cool and the fun part of the game is to blow off heads of zombies that are dumb and the hard part of the boss's in the game is the U3 he is a jerk but the game is worth the money.
Luke Ross

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