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the gamecube version is much better...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 31
Date: October 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

if you are thinking about picking this up i'd go for the nintendo gamecube version over this one. the graphics look much better and it plays smoother on the 'cube (plus playing on the gamecube means you can use the best video game accessory ever made= the ultra-dope wavebird wireless controller) . the game was designed for the gamecube, and the weird architecture of the ps2 didn't help the shifting over from that console. the game itself is fantastic but be aware that it is much better on the gamecube.

Blah!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 32
Date: October 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Please take notice that i have the RE4 games for both gamecube and ps2! and after comparing it on my HDTV the ps2 version looks horrible! in graphics.......very bad porting, makes the game and the console look like crap!

Is not that good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 37
Date: December 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Too bad that they released RE4 on the PS2, GazmeCube Graphics are a lot better, GamePlay and Control are the worst on PS2, GameCube is more Handy, I recomend buying the GameCube version instead

MAKES YOU DIZZY AND SICK PLAYING IT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 37
Date: April 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS UNPLAYABLE AFTER JUST 5 MINS PLAYING IT I HAD TO STOP CAUSE IT MADE ME FEEL SICK AND DIZZY FROM THE GAME PLAY MOVEMENT.EVEN MY GF WHO WAS WATCHING ME PLAY IT GOT SICK AND DIZZY FROM JUST WATCHING THE SCREEN.THE OTHER RESIDENT EVIL GAMES ARE JUST FINE I PLAYED THEM FOR HOURS AND NEVER ONCE GOT DIZZY OR FELT SICK FROM THEM.BUT THIS ONE IS LIKE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR ANY OF YOU WHO PLAYED MEDAL OF HONOR YOU KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.IT MAKES YOU SICK AND DIZZY PLAYING IT.DON'T KNOW WHY THE MAKERS OF THIS GAME COULDN'T KEEP IT LIKE THE NEW AND IMPROVED RESIDENT EVIL FOR GAMECUBE.THE FACT THAT THIS GAMES MOVEMENT MAKES YOU SICK AND DIZZY MAKES THIS UNPLAYABLE AND THAT IS A MAJOR FLAW.

Total Aggravation

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 25
Date: February 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this as a gift for Christmas, expecting it to be awesome based on all the reviews I read, and especially after playing Resident Evil 2 a few years back. However, it was a major disappointment. Right from the beginning, they give you very little ammo to work with, and it's one thing to have to learn to conserve ammo, but a whole different thing when you're attacked by up to 14 zombies in stage 1 all at one time, and are constantly just trying to hang on by a thread of life to find bullets (using a knife won't help when 3+ are after you at a time).

One other major issue I have is that if you take a large amount of damage in one level, and barely survive to make it to the next one, you start with that same life level. Unfortunately, if you save to maintain your progress, a reload starts you with whatever life you had, which REALLY sucks if you've already used available refills of life prior to this point...you're basically stuck with a saved game at a point where you'll have to survive with no refills and instant death if anyone touches you. And, should you die and choose to continue, to get put right back at the beginning of the level or last save point, with the same sliver of life you had before. You're basically stuck going back to square one and starting all over again.

The graphics are impressive, but not enough to make this game worth having, as it's more frustrating than anything else.

A joke of a copyright infringement

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 61
Date: April 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is the biggest rip off I've ever witnessed without even hinting as to their source. This game was copied nearly verbatim from a effort-filled Stuart Gordon movie entitled Dagon, based on two stories by the renowned H.P. Lovecraft. The eerie spanish town, dark gothic atmosphere, off "humans", dark priest, all ripped from the screen.

If you don't believe me, rent the film for yourself or at least look at some images. Compare the barn scenes for one, the priest, etc.

"But it's a great game" in defense is utterly stupid. Unless you are a mind-numbed idiot that drools with only a single brain cell left entirely devoted to whatever your playstation or gamecube feeds you, the blatant copy is repulsive enough to step away from the series for good. If nothing tips off the obviousness, how the heck does this sequel assimilate into the existing resident evil line? It doesn't. It's a "oh man that movie was awesome, i'll change two things in it and add a weird monster and say we wrote it, give no credit to the source, and people are so stupid they won't care that it doesn't make sense as long as you make cool music and spooky graphics. After all, our gamers are very naive and witless as they shell out cash...as long as we add Leon and the RE title."

It appears that the same cynics claiming this generation is nothing but a population of zombies with the sole concern of entertaing their half-baked brains with anything remotely entertaining long enough that they won't have to think for themselves is somewhat true to a degree. I know many out there that are hardcore into this game have searched it up and down on the internet and I know Dagon has popped up, if not a resource of that film. But that doesn't concern you, does it? As long as your eyes are hooked on the screen and no questions are asked, all is fine.

A disappointment to say the least, not just by Capcom, but from anyone playing this [...] I hope Lion's Gate films sues their [...] off.

Very surprised at the poor controls

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 26
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the first Resident Evil game I've tried and was quite surprised that the controls were this poor. I had heard nothing but positive reviews on RE4. Most all of them containing remarks on how they finally got the controls right in contrast to eariler RE games. Those earlier games must of been close to completely unplayable. But you'll have to excuse me I guess. I just finished playing games like Halo, Halo 2, FarCry, and many other recent 1st person and 3rd person action games whose controls are flawless or close to it. There is really no excuse in this day and age to have controls this horrible. If the controls were done this way on purpose to heighten the suspense or something, perhaps the makers of this game should have just simply made a better game to accomplish this. Poor controls = No Fun.

horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 47
Date: August 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

why is this game being reviewed so well? i thought it was horrible, the game is frightenly repetitive, it gets boring after the first level. I thought it was a failure and forever scared me away from resident evil. my advice is to stay away!! horiblle, HORIBLE GAME!

5 stars? Are you kidding?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is, by far, the worst Resident Evil game in the series. Fighting a village full of crazies to save the president's daughter has WHAT, exactly, to do with zombies or survival horror? Fighting a big fish in a row boat? Yeah, that's real "scary". RE4 has managed to completely remove the horror element from "survival horror". And it's looking like it's going to be the same with RE5. Epic fail. Save your money or buy something from the Fatal Frame series.

The biggest bait and switch in horror gaming history

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Basically if you liked Resident Evil Dead Aim, Code Veronica and any of the movies that were out in theaters, then you're in for a REALLY big treat because Resident Evil 4 is everything those games proffered in being loud, dumb and obnoxious action-packed thrillers with amazingly stupid dialogue (stupider than the first game's dialogue), embarrassingly weak plots (weaker than the original game's plots) and being virtually devoid of atmosphere, pacing, even shock factors. God help you if you played the original games and liked them for their atmosphere, decent characters and adventuring aspects of game play because to you the huge glossy four on this game (that surprisingly comes before the title) will feel like the biggest bait and switch in the history of horror gaming.

Do I even REALLY need to explain how stupid this game is? I understand what Capcom was trying: they thought that a new, smarter enemy would be a lot scarier and in theory they would be, but they seemed to forgot that adding a bunch of BS action-packed attacks to the hero cuts down atmosphere faster than a lawn-mower to grass. Would you be terrified of a group of people you could decapitate almost immediately with a single round-house kick to the head? Would you be scared of possessing the ability to toss big, heavy combat knives effectively and always hit your target? Would you be shivering if you somehow possessed the ability to jump off of thirty/forty foot ledges, land on your own two feet and NEVER GET HURT?? What the Hell!! How could any of this qualify as horror?

Capcom basically took Leon from the second game and turned him into a Devil May Cry character! And his change in attitude doesn't make any sense, either: how can a well-grounded, mature young man lose so many brain cells that he practically regresses to an angsty middle-school student in a manner of six years? Does a man become more mature by the amount of curse words or smugly witty commentary he spouts?

I used to love Ada Wong from Resident Evil 2 because there was something interesting about her whole situation and you actually started learning a little bit about her... there was something human about her then. Well, there certainly isn't now! Not only did they change her character, they turned Ada into an action-packed, back-flipping, bullet-timed super woman in quite possibly the most laughable and offensive spy get-up I've ever seen in any visual media.

And how about that 100% Hollywood, back alley garbage plot? European terrorists? A plot against the president's daughter? Some completely unknown, unheard of bacteriological entity that just appeared out of nowhere and has absolutely nothing to do with Umbrella? Oh no!

Everyone compliments the game play, but all it really comes down to is a rip-off of Splinter Cell used in a completely inappropriate situation. The reason why the over-the-shoulder zoom worked in Splinter Cell was because you didn't have to constantly worry about people crawling on screen at all sides while you're trying to sharp shoot. Oh yeah, and how about those Quick Time Events, eh? Since when was mashing buttons scary? Quick Time Events aren't even FUN! They're obnoxious little mini-games tied into the game's cinematic moments (particularly in moments where you'll probably end up shouting "Oh now what" instead of admitting fearfulness) made to keep you from sitting back like you usually do so you can watch helplessly as your character performs so many hyperactive super moves according to random buttons they might as well be dancers in a Merce Cunningham production on the surface of Titan hooked up to electrodes.

The moments the game even remembers it wants to be a horror game run few and far between: all the game has in its favor is an inexplicable water-boss and naked, seven foot, sniffling, nose-less zombies that look like they were designed in about a minute. That's it. The rest of the time you'll be gunning down crazy people (NOT zombies), manga villains and guarding a prostitute.

Look, I can see why most people venerate this game as a good action game (which is why I give it a 2 for fun), but really, trying to find the game scary, terrifying or worth more than a rental is pointless.

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