Resident Evil 4 review by OakyBoy

[OakyBoy]

This was my first Resident Evil, but I can now safely say it will not be my last.


The game starts out with a cut scene where you, Leon, are being driving by two European police men into some very foreboding woods.

Once there the police men will stay 'guarding' the vehicle while you are left to explore.

Shortly you will come upon a abandoned hut, with boards nailed over windows and crows on the near trees, classic horror.

When you have plucked up the courage to slowly creep in to the building you'll find a man bent over an open fire. As you start to ask him questions you should realise something isn't quite right as he doesn't reply. As you explore up the stairs, you'll come to an open window. Cue a short cut scene type thing where Leon hears the police screeching away in the car.

Once control is returned to you you'll turn around to find a lumbering man coming towards you. What's that you say? He's not a zombie and you would be right, these are not zombies in Resident Evil 4, they are villagers, once normal people, infected with a virus which turned them in to flesh hungry, monsters.


Quite the lookers ain't they?

That is basically the structure of the first level, exploring the village and popping some heads.

I have to dedicate a whole paragraph to the bosses as they are so amazing!
In various cut scenes you will see the leader of these monsters, but you don't fight him till later on in the game. This fella here is one of the earlier bosses.


Friendly looking chap isn't he? The boss fights are (in my opinion) down to a fine art here, they're not to hard, or fiddly, they're just right!

Moving on, the graphics on this game are truly astonishing, you won't believe that it's running on your little white box.

Everything about this game seems to be perfectly thought out and executed, the controls are as smooth as silk, head shots become gloriously satisfactionary because of the Wii-motes capabilities. Not forgetting the sound, tremble as you listen to some unseen beast breathing heavily.

The story is more alike to a Hollywood movie than a Nintendo Wii game, it will have you hooked from beginning to end, although I won't go in to it to much as I don't want to spoil it for everyone.

A fantastic game, and in my opinion one of the best shooters available on any platform!

Pros
Stunning graphics.
Great story.
Fantastic controls.
Around 20-25 hours of playtime, average.
Awesome boss battles.
Cons
Errr, I honestly can't think of anything bad.
Some areas are maybe over challenging, don't kill me, I couldn't think of anything.

[peecee]

good review of in my opinion the best game on the wii. The bad point for the game though is that you can only play it with a mate present in broad daylight since its too scary any other way!

[Gregers]

Yeh, it's a good review. Well done!

One bad point you could put though is the fact, like every other Resi Evil game, you can only stand still while using a weapon, i'd love to run around blasting away, but it's something that has always been missing from the series yet it does it no harm!!!

[LandShark]

Overall rating nice review okay1 1 post closer to catching us up

[LandShark]

Nice review Okay, one post closer to catching me up

[wii_man76]

Good review!

I've never played any of the Resident Evil games and it sounds like the game I will need to buy when the winter months are upon us.

[OakyBoy]

Yeah, it's a great game for those cold, windy and wet winter nights. It will add to the fear factor aswell.

[Beaten]

This is my Favorite game Im on the bit where you have to kill Krauser but I have hardly any ammo

[Wombraider]

My first Resie game as well, loving it (not in the carnal sense).......
My wife stayed for one minute of game play saw the first head explode, left the room and refuses to be in the lounge when its on (this game gets 10/10 just for the peace and quiet it brings me)

[wiimadjay]

nice review mate
this is my favourite game on the wii. i just love it! be better if you can move while using guns though.