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Worthless crap DOES NOT support a mouse!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: June 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I waited two years for the PC version so that I wouldn't have to use sorry gamepad controls, then when I finally get it it doesn't even support a mouse at all! Despite the statement that it does support "windows compatible mouse and keyboard" on the game box!

I feel totally cheated - I don't have a gamepad so I can't even play it!

You can't even use a mouse on the selection screens! What did Ubisoft do for two years?

BADDDDDDDDDD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First of all this game has no mouse control at all.To fire your weapon you have to press shift and enter at the same time and you have to use another 2 buttons to line up your shot.All other games do all this just using the mouse.That aint all every action you take you have to use 2 or 3 buttons to do it.It is not a free roaming game.You are on a path if you try to walk off of it you can't.Very linier game play and really bad controls.I just bought this game and am putting it up for sale.It is obviousley a console game adapted to get the pc dollars

Cheap copy of console version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hardcore PC Gamers beware. this is a bad copy of a console game. Graphics are not impressive and game play for me is boring. Everybody else seems to love this game. If you have $19.00 buy it you may also like it.

Lousy... Not Worth the Wait Nor the Hype

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This console turned PC title has been one of the biggest disappointments to date. This PC title had been delayed many months, and for what? Ubisoft took their sweet time [doing what?] just to release a shoddy product. What kind of software exists that doesn't integrate use of the [universal] mouse? Why are the keyboard controls so complicated? The gameplay is hurt from this lack of foresight on the part of Ubisoft, which hurts the game considerably. The cinematic scenes look worse on the PC, when compared to those of consoles.

Just purchase a console and the game. After all, it was originally meant for a CONSOLE, NOT a PC.

From a long time survival horror fan

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

From a long time survival horror fan

I am both an avid PC game player and a fan of the survival horror genre. Sadly, most of the "good" survival horror games have been on console systems. I saw "Resident Evil 4" for the PC and thought I would give it a try. This has to be one of the worse PC games I have ever tried.

It is a port from the consoles (PS2, Gamecube, etc) in which Ubisoft has done nothing to accommodate the PC format. You cannot use a mouse (WASD for movement and arrow keys for looking around). This makes aiming, navigating, and interacting with the environment difficult at best. If one used a dual axis control this might work (like would have to be done on a Playstation for example). However, if I had wanted to use a gamepad to play the game, I would have bought it for a console system.

The graphics are flat, dry and lack any depth. While this is not a deal breaker for me, it is very annoying after you see the game on a Playstation 2. Hundreds of dollars on RAM, video cards and a processor and the best Capcom/Ubisoft can do is give me 1997 graphical textures to process on my machine.

The menus are horrid. To exit the game you must "Reset Game", very intuitive; the arrow keys do not work to navigate the menus; you must use the WASD keys, etc. This is another example of the mindless port job that was done to this.

I recall seeing trailers for this game years ago and now that I have played it I am very sad. Perhaps the only thing worse than this game is the fact that because of the no return of "open software" policy that most every store has in place, there is no way for me to return a very bad product!

As a point of reference I consider the following to be "good" survival horror games: Fatal Frame 1, Fatal Frame 2, Silent Hill 2, and Silent Hill 4.

Broken controls make it unplayable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had never played Resident Evil 4 before getting the Wii version last week. I loved the Wii version so much that I picked up this port for the PC so that I could play it on my laptop while traveling. I've spent about 6 hours trying to play the PC version over the last few days and have determined that it is unplayable due to horrible controls. It has taken me those 6 hours to get to the same point in the game that it took me a half hour to get to on the Wii version. Playing the game with a Gamepad was slightly better than playing with just the keyboard, as was downloading an unofficial patch that enabled use of the mouse (I even tried using a hack that someone created to play the game on the PC using the Wii controller). No matter what control scheme I've tried, the lack of precision aiming and movement makes the game totally unenjoyable and frustrating. I still highly recommend the Wii version of the game, but save your money and avoid the PC version at all costs.

HORRID PC Port!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is frankly the worst game I have ever played. Anyone who gives this higher than 2 stars has either: a)never played the pc version, b)played with a USB game controller, or c)only played the console versions (PS2, Gamecube, etc.).

This is a classic example of a console game that was ported by a low-budget Japanese company to the PC in order to bring in more dollars. There is absolutely no mouse support outside of a 3rd party mouse-hack, which only makes aiming slightly better. When gamers like myself have to turn to other gamers to make the controls better, it is a pathetic game to start with.

The "minimum system requirements" are far to low to even come close to playing the game in the lowest detail/resolution. Even their recommended system requirements might not be able to play the game in full detail.

The graphics are good but there is no "wow-effect" when it comes to textures during normal gameplay. The cutscenes are poor 640x480 resolution with no lighting effects whatsoever and short vertical white lines randomly in the picture. Think of a cutscene from a late 90s game to get the idea.

Here comes the worst part of it: the control conversion. Rather than saying "Press Shift to dodge this boulder that will kill you", the game uses the console text: "Press the 3rd button". It took me 10 tries to figure out what "1 + 3" was on the keyboard. To me it would seem easy to re-write the game code to say "Shift + Enter" instead of "1 + 3". After 3 months of release delays, I expect much better.

In conclusion, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. "Obscure" for $6 is far superior in graphics and gameplay (2 people can play). This game would be great on the PS2, but this shoddy PC version has really left a foul taste in my mouth. As of writing this review I have still not finished the game due to sheer frustration with the controls.

Didnt run

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was unable to play the game as I got a missing file message when I tried to play it. I have tried uninstall/install several times now and it still wont play.

So my review is.. not a good game.

Awkward and poorly put together addition

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge RE fan and I cannot express my disappointment over the game play of the PC version. I found it so awkward to interact with and the graphics were nothing special. I am looking forward to the PS3/XBox version of RE5 in 2008 and hope for more.

A $20 Coaster

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: August 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is non-functional on the PC. The game package says "Peripherals Supported: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard", this is a flat out lie.

As you have probably learned from the other reviews, it does not support mouse. Not only that, even the keyboard doesn't work. After playing the game for 5 minutes a menu / screen opened, and I could not get out of it because there was no button on the keyboard mapped to close the menu. I would have had to drive to the local gamer store, purchase a console controller, in order to close that menu. The manual that comes with the PC game is actually the CONSOLE MANUAL, thereby making it completely useless because all the instructions refer to how to make it work with your CONSOLE. No mention anywhere of PC controls. All of the ingame menus and ques that come up refer to the standard console controller buttons...which of course I don't have, why would I? I own a PC. THey didn't even take the time to map really obvious console controller buttons to really obvious keyboard buttons, for example, the numbered buttons on the console controller could have been easily mapped to the numbers on the keyboard --- they did not do this. Infact, the very menu that I could not close had a note such as "to close this menu hit console controller button 5", and yet hitting the keyboard button 5 did not do anything. This is a no brainer, just map the console controller button 5, to keyboard button 5. It is unfathomable how anyone could be so lazy. If you don't mind going out and purchasing essentially a console controller, in order to play this game on your PC, then it may be a 2 star game instead of a 1 star.

Until I bought this game, I've never had to delete a game from my hard drive within 10 minutes or less of installing it. I now own a $20 coaster, that is the best use for the game disk I can find.

I might not be as annoyed if they had at least said on the package "Game console controller required to play". Though, for a pc game, there is no excuse not to have mouse support. If you are going to take the time to port a console game over to a PC, at least take the time to make it work on a standard PC. I guarentee you 99% of people who EXCLUSIVELY own/play games on a PC do not own console style controllers, there is no need, all PC games ever created, except this one, have mouse support. Compared to console controllers, the "mouse" system works 10x better for ALL types of games. If you have been playing on a PC all these years, like some of us, you would know that.

horrible, horrible, horrible. I will never buy another title from this company, or a console to pc game, ever again.

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