Resident Evil 5
Amazon.com Product Description
Experience the thrill and terror all over again with Resident Evil 5 for PS3. Featuring Chris Redfield of the original Resident Evil and Sheva Alomar, a West African agent of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA), this sci-fi survival game is staged in a remote desert colony packed with hordes of fast-moving, quick-thinking enemies that represent a whole new breed of evil.
 Cooperative game play options let you take teamwork to a new level. View larger. |
 Dramatic graphics and lighting effects add a realistic edge to your mission. View larger. |
 Move through vast environments that have a discernable impact on game play. View larger. |
 You’ll face faster enemies backed by improved AI. View larger. |
Meet Two Fierce, Playable Main Characters
Back from the original title and Resident Evil: Code Veronica, former S.T.A.R.S. special forces team member Redfield is a battle-tested, founding member of the BSAA. With a reputation for superior marksmanship and phenomenal hand-to-hand combat abilities, he’s on the ground and up against a new strain of evil.
You’ll call his shots from the same over-the-shoulder third person viewpoint that distinguished Resident Evil 4, except this time you’ll also have the option of playing as his teammate, the fierce, local Alomar. Whoever you play as, updates to the earlier version’s third-person control scheme offer more options and promise intuitive interactions.
Learn to Work Together
The new cooperative game play element focuses on the realities of a dual-agent mission, highlighting the ways in which Redfield and Alomar must work together to survive the unexpected, while still allowing them to split up and work alone. To help you maximize the potential of this setup, two-player online and offline co-op modes ensure that you have options when picking a partner.
Steel yourself Against the Harsh Reality of Kijuju
An advanced version of Capcom’s proprietary MT Framework game engine brings groundbreaking graphics and effects to Kijuju, the highly-developed environment where this game’s action takes place. New, lifelike lighting schemes highlight the differences between harsh sunlight and extreme darkness, and when you move from one to the other, you’ll have to wait for your character’s eyes to adjust before you can see clearly, adding to the suspense and challenge of navigating this game’s environs.
Face the Next Generation of Evil
You’ll face new enemies with faster reflexes and improved AI, designed to be as dangerous alone as they are in groups and to keep even Resident Evil masters on their toes. Thankfully, they’re not the only ones who have evolved. This game also offers access to powerful new weapons variations that extend your destructive capabilities.
And the updated, quick-select inventory system allows for real-time inventory management, as well as allowing characters to trade items and allowing you to place an item on the directional pad for instant access. Add all this to a detailed storyline the touches on what the past ten years have meant for Redfield and a Hollywood-caliber soundtrack, and it’s clear that the latest installment in this series really does showcase all the elements at the heart of horror gaming.
Product Description
This next-generation follow-up to the terrifying series introduces the theme of escape as its core survival instinct. As Chris Redfield, your life is in danger as you strive to complete your most dangerous mission yet in a sweltering desert colony where a new breed of evil has been unleashed. Swarms of marauding evil beings will charge at you when your pulse is racing at a heart-shattering pace. Environments will play a bigger factor than ever here, using the power of next-gen systems to create a world where terror might lurk in any alcove or shadow. Powerful lighting effects overwhelm the player with mirage movement and blinding brilliance, and even in the light of day, there is no safe haven in this Resident Evil. Powerful New Weapons – The number of weapon variations has been greatly increased providing new ways to keep enemies at bay. Fear Light as much as Shadow – Lighting effects provide a new level of suspense as players attempt to survive in both harsh sunlight and extreme darkness.
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Posted by J.J.
on Jul 4 2009. Filed under Best Priced Games.
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Ok, let me get this out of the way, I have played both the 360 and PS3 version through the first couple of chapters. I don’t see a difference, both versions look fantastic!! This is an absolutely beautiful game on either system, I purchased the PS 3 version because I am still, and always be a fan of the Dualshock controller, I guess you could call me a dualshock fanboy.
Ok some reviewers hammered home the comparisons to RE 4, and that’s fair, apparently Capcom didn’t want to stray from what worked for them and RE 4 was a runaway hit. I like that the game “feels” familiar but different at the same time. I played the demo a lot to get a handle on the controls, because we can all agree that they take a bit of adjustment from other 3rd person games. I know for the purity of the game Capcom decided to leave the run and gun aspect out of it, but I can’t tell you how many times I wish I could pull a Gears of War tactic out of my a$$ during some of the more intense encounters, but after adjusting to the RE frame of mind I adapted quickly.
The story has enough cheese in it to keep me happy, I am perfectly happy with the story, my level of escapism with the game was just right, I don’t need a life altering story to make me love a game.
I can’t recommend this game enough, it is perfect for me in many ways. In my opinion it deserves my 5 Star rating.
PSN Id- Kmann_Rocks
add me for some co-op! I am trying to get more friends on PSN!
*EDIT*
I am adding that the inventory/cash system is ridiculous lol. You can literally farm levels for cash, ammo, weapons and treasures over and over and over…
I still love the game though, online co-op is amazing.
I don’t get where the hype for this game comes from, except maybe for those fanboys who write reviews even before the game is released and automatically rank it 5/5 stars on hype alone. To those people, lay off the kool-aid and try not to ride the PR train next time. Or at least become a shill and get payed while doing so.
Upon completing this game, I was very disappointed by it.
First, while previous RE games were spooky and had great “zombie” creepiness(REmake anyone?) this one can be best summarized as black men with blood shot eyes riding motorcycles. What happened to this series?
Whoever came up with the “daylight horror” during preproduction meetings at Capcom should have his head examichopped off. There are no scares, no horror atmosphere worthy of Resident Evil name. The entire franchise has become a derivative action slugfest. Some people might say this shift kinda started with RE4, sure, but RE5 pretty much goes way past it and feels like nothing more than House of the Dead game, with the rails turned off accompanied by a slower, less responsive pointing laser. Kick the door in, pop some infected Africans, rinse and repeat.
Game is extremely linear, there is no exploration, no backtracking to unlock previous areas with newly acquired toys. Even the shock value is pretty much gone, rest in pieces window jumping canines. All you do is mow down very slow moving infected villagers that act more like practice dummies than a threat. They ride motorcycles and even use conventional weapons near the end of the game. Isn’t there some unspoken rule zombies don’t do that written somewhere. What, they’re not zombies anymore? Then what are you calling this a RE game for. Might as well go with nazi vampires for next one. Head hurts.
Resident Evil worked Capcom(REmake), you tried to fix what wasn’t broken(RE4), and you broke it(RE5). It only took time to realize it.
Ok, so it’s not a remarkable survival horror game, neither was RE4 but that was a good action game. Back in 2005.
Resident Evil 5 is a bad(dated?) action game. It tries to copy RE4 and slap a new paint job on it, but 4 years have passed. Not being able to move and shoot is unacceptable in 2009 for an action game. It works in survival horror adventure games, in which you spend more time anticipating the combat encounters than the actual combat, AND where action isn’t the focus of the game. It doesn’t work in an action game. It never did, and the moment the competition arrived it showed how outdated RE4 controls truly were. No, don’t kid yourself fanboys, this game is in the same genre as Gears of Wars and Dead Space – a behind the shoulder action game. The problem is both these already released games control and are designed much better than what Capcom just spew out. If that wasn’t insulting enough, GeoW2 can be more creepy at times than RE5 and it controls better too! I’m not even going to talk about Dead Space, which blew everyones mind how well it turned out. A game from EA no less /facepalm. Maybe, just maybe, there is hope for System Shock 3.
Terrible tank controls, restrictive movement, slow aiming controls, awful cover implementation.
Moving on, the aggressiveness of the enemies – or lack thereof. I’ve lost count the number of times a mob of enemies run up to me, then sloooowly started to circle around me waiting to be shot down one by one. This isn’t anything new, RE4 had the same ridiculous mechanic. Like the game is trying to tell you both movement and aiming controls are implemented the wrong way, so we have to make the enemies that look at you for the most part, while you slowly, in stationary position, aim for the head shots. Let’s face it, if the zombies from Left 4 Dead or the mutated freaks from Dead Space showed up you would never make it past the first level with these controls. Sure, there are some mini bosses which are a step up in the right direction, but they’re either so slow you can run circles around them(executioner) or so trivial(chainsaw guy) it makes no difference. Then again, we get others later on that wouldn’t be amiss in a railgun game where you don’t even need to move, and let’s not forget the ever annoying quick time events, hope you don’t mind those.
It gets better! Not only are the controls terrible, you are stuck with an African co-op partner(skin tone not too black, just enough not to be white) who is terrible at ammo/health items conservation. Combined that with a limited inventory and that you can’t drop items to pick up later if you’re full, and you end up with an annoying micro management side game that is well past outstaying its welcome by the time you fly off in the chopper. Also a helpful hint, watch her ammo, she sprays it like they kidnapped her poodle and beat it in a sack while making her watch.
Thankfully, if you play online and allow another person to control her rather than ai this fairs much better. Then again, if you want to play co-op zombie action game with other people, I suggest you look into Left 4 Dead.
Only redeeming quality this game has? It looks and sounds OUTSTANDING. I wouldn’t be surprised if Capcom has legions of talented artists chained to their desks working them 24/7. I would notify the law enforcement of the area, but why. Sadly, looks can’t carry a game. Unless you’re a casual.
this game is great. It has great gameplay and gives you plenty of reasons to play it over and over again. If you have a friend who also likes to play games like this, there is a great co-op mode that even works over the internet. highly recommended
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Game
I loved it, enjoyed every minute of it, have earned around 60% trophies, on my way to finish it for the third time.
3.0 out of 5 stars
I’m somewhere in the middle on this one.
First, let me say that I loved RE4. I’ve played all the RE games, most more than once. The first one and RE4 are my favs. So I was hoping for greatness.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Co-Op game
I’ll be very honest. When I first heard they were putting co-op in Resident Evil 5, I was more than skeptical.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get the 360 version
I bought this game first on the PS3. If the PS3 is your only option, that’s fine its a fantastic game (check out my review for the 360 version).
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Game! Had fun but story is a bit short
This game was worth buying but the story was too short, the gameplay is great and controls are abit hard to get used to, It’s better than resident evil 4 but resident evil 2 and 3…
2.0 out of 5 stars
Biggest disappointment of the year
First off, let me get this on the table: I am a single-player kind of gamer. I don’t really enjoy teaming up with other people online very often, and especially not in game like…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Must play in Co-op!
Love this game and all of RE series. Am so sick of people complaining about the controls because they are not an issue at all! I love this game and beat it several times.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Missed Opportunity
wayyyyyyy toooo complicated, too many button pushes, to make a simple operation like killing someone!!!! requires 3 buttons???? why????
3.0 out of 5 stars
Home Alone
I read the bad reviews on Amazon and G4tv before I bought the game but I was still excited to recieve it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great game!
This is a great game! I bought it for my husband and he loves it!!! I enjoy watching him play it too! Great story line as well, its almost like you are playing in a movie.