Resident Evil 4

Post by **Zerofactor** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:51 am

Just got this game, about to fire it up. It any good? hard? easy? What'd you guys think?

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:53 am

its a good action game. dont expect any horror though, its pretty much "run into area, get 3 waves of enemies, door unlocks, run into next".
another plus: its quite long. much longer than i expected.
con: run of the mill overly mutated end boss

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:00 am

MKJ wrote:its a good action game. dont expect any horror though, its pretty much "run into area, get 3 waves of enemies, door unlocks, run into next".

It had some scary bits IMO. Mostly at the early parst of the game though. Once you hit the island the horror is pretty much gone.

MKJ wrote: another plus: its quite long. much longer than i expected.
con: run of the mill overly mutated end boss

Some parts later on in the game are a bit of a drag to be honest. And yeah, every boss is pretty much the same.

However, having said that, I rank RE4 in my top-3 games-of-the-year for 2005. The action is awesome, the gameplay is fantastic, the story is great, the characters are interesting and the graphics are to drool over (the cube has quite some power in it still). Really a fantastic game that can't miss from your gameslibrary if you have a gamecube.

Post by **Zerofactor** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:02 am

This behind my back camera isn't that great so far.

edit: ok I just shot this guy, and it was sweet.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:05 am

i startled at the woman pinned to the wall, but thats about it.

it is indeed a great game. nothing RE about it though

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:10 am

MKJ wrote:i startled at the woman pinned to the wall, but thats about it.

it is indeed a great game. nothing RE about it though

nah, apart from a few references to Umbrella and the mention of Raccoon city indeed not, but I don't really mind. Which I admit might seem hypocritical coming from me after slamming the RE movie for having nothing to do with the RE games.

Post by **Zerofactor** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:20 am

I got my head chopped off

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:21 am

Zerofactor wrote:I got my head chopped off

haha, the chainsaw zombie thingies are great

btw, try shooting a zombie in the kneecaps and hitting the A button once you're close by. You can give 'em a good kick in the face.

Kicking down a ladder when there's zombies climbing it is good fun as well

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:26 am

flame grenading a mob is great fun too

and nothing beats Hunk's melee attack :icon14:
but you got 25 hrs of gaming ahead of you before you can experience that

Post by **Zerofactor** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:28 am

this is fun lol just as i barricaded myself inside of the cabin, run up the stairs and picked up the shotgun, this chainsaw guy comes up the stairs and beheads me once again

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:28 am

jump out of the window. just for the hell of it

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:32 am

Oh yeah that bit. I did the same. Barricaded the door, but then the fuckers started coming through the windows and this chainsaw guy chopped the door to bits. The only thing I could do at the moment was scream "THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN FRIKKIN' HALF LIFE 2!!! ........ BASTARDS!"

I liked the bit where you sit with you-know-who in the cabin shooting all the zombies. Died a few times, but after that I found that barricading the windows with the closets and throwing grenades at the windows was a good plan

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:35 am

MKJ wrote:flame grenading a mob is great fun too

and nothing beats Hunk's melee attack :icon14:
but you got 25 hrs of gaming ahead of you before you can experience that

Hunk? You mean that one guy with the knife fight and the erm... long arm? He's cool. Did you do Ada's Assignment? He's so much tougher at the end of it than in Leon's campaign. He was really easy in the normal game.

Post by **Yeando** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:37 am

Im 5 and a half hours into it and still on disc 1, & im a resi veteran.
Im really enjoying it, shame theres no zombies but it makes the wait for resi 5 unbearable.

Gameplay wise im finding it tricky, mainly because of firepower, I done the stupid thing of selling my uber-shotgun for a bigger carry case. Now ive got fuck all to put up against the shitloads af hoodies in the castle. Better challenge though, im lovin it!!!

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:40 am

no you're talking about Jack.

Hunk was a secret character from RE2, the Mercenary. his melee attack is the neckbreaker, an instant kill :icon14:

I found Ada's Assignment a bit boring.. not as much fun as say the 2nd scenario from RE2. I was also disappointed with the lack of backstory she had, seeing how she played an important role in RE1 and 2. and the fact that she fell 200ft into a powercore

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:40 am

I bought the 2nd carry case by the time the 3rd was available. It was sufficient. Rarely ran out of storage space because by that time, ammo was running pretty thin and I wasn't carrying 1 TMP, 3 pistol, 2 shotgun boxes and 36 herbs anymore.

I could even stash a rocket launcher in there

edit:
oh and count at least 15 hours for disc 1

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:43 am

MKJ wrote:no you're talking about Jack.

Hunk was a secret character from RE2, the Mercenary. his melee attack is the neckbreaker, an instant kill :icon14:

I found Ada's Assignment a bit boring.. not as much fun as say the 2nd scenario from RE2. I was also disappointed with the lack of backstory she had, seeing how she played an important role in RE1 and 2. and the fact that she fell 200ft into a powercore

I didn't know Ada at all. I have only played RE0, RE1 and RE:Code Veronica X. Never 2 or 3. I don't think she's a character in RE1.
Ada's assignment was boring yeah, it would be nice if it had more tie-ins with the actual single player story, but it is a nice kick-off towards Umbrella Corporation v2.0 (and probably RE5).

And this Hunk, where is he in RE4 then?

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:51 am

Ada was the password for the Umbrella computer in RE1. she's the wife of the inventor of the T-Virus. she plays a big role in RE2, where Leon encounters her looking for her husband (who died before STARS entered the mansion in RE1). after a fight with the wife of the inventor of the G-Virus, she falls off a metal bridge in the powercore of the 2nd lab. quite the dramatic moment as Leon tries to pull her up and lets go after she says it's no use anymore.

so i was quite suprised she was in RE4. i was like "oh NOW the plot thickens!!11one". but alas, it doesnt

not even in the Ada's Assignment game. and where did Leon hear she was working for Wesker

that confused the feck outta me.

Hunk is one of the 4 characters you can be in the Mercenaries minigame

Post by **Zerofactor** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:09 am

Eraser wrote: Which I admit might seem hypocritical coming from me after slamming the RE movie for having nothing to do with the RE games.

Did you ever read the alternate script that they almost used for the first RE movie? It was set in the mansion, with most of the original characters from RE 1. Was pretty fucking cool too.

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:11 am

I remember Leon and Ada talking about her working for Wesker. The Ada's Assignment game confirms it.

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:11 am

Zerofactor wrote:
Eraser wrote: Which I admit might seem hypocritical coming from me after slamming the RE movie for having nothing to do with the RE games.
Did you ever read the alternate script that they almost used for the first RE movie? It was set in the mansion, with most of the original characters from RE 1. Was pretty fucking cool too.

Would've been a lot better I reckon.

Post by **Zerofactor** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:12 am

haha idiot zombie tossed dynamite at me while I ran up to him, blew himself up

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:22 am

Zerofactor wrote:haha idiot zombie tossed dynamite at me while I ran up to him, blew himself up

Shoot the zombie in the arm holding the dynamite. He'll drop it.
You can also shoot dynamite in mid air. It'll explode.

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:26 pm

Resident Evil 4 for the PS2 will be released October 25th in the US and November 4th in Europe :icon14:

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=60360

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:30 pm

Yeah, with ugly mdoe enabled... But FFS I hate to buy it because it contains over 2 hours of extras... FOR FUCKS SAKE.

Anyways, Re4 was fantastic, but damn, I wish i stayed in the vilage...