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Can one of 2009's biggest games live up to its groundbreaking predecessor?

Words: Brett Elston, GamesRadar US
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H2A2I00  - 8 months 23 days ago 
not scary man that suks
resident evil code veronica x was my favorite because it was so fukin scary
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DawgsFan117  - 8 months 23 days ago 
wow there are some hard core retards postin some stupid shit on here. First of all anyone that says gaylo 3 probably just doesnt own a 360 so stop being poor and buy both a PS3 and a 360 like I did.
Also the reason that they complained about having to stop and shoot is because of how much the game has changed. You have to adapt controls in order to keep up with faster gameplay obviously.
Hell i think ill take the opinion of someone who actually played the game and not some fuckin retarded fanboys.
Good review gamesradar.
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HoraceQS  - 8 months 23 days ago 
What about the death animations? The demo's decapitations were not shown and although it's a minor point it would be a real step backwards as far as I'm concerned. The brutal deaths your character could suffer was essential to the horror feel of the game, which seems to have suffered.
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Defguru7777  - 8 months 23 days ago 
Good review GamesRadar. But you barely mentioned the story. That seems like it'd be a big point for an RE game.
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Harmon20  - 8 months 23 days ago 
In all seriousness, I expected no less. I knew it'd be a lot like RE4, but I'm actually glad that they've kept it somewhat similar. At least your partner can ACTUALLY defend herself this time... I always wanted to say to Ashley, "hey, here's a shotgun. Have fun." but no.
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PixelSly  - 8 months 23 days ago 
Not scary? Thats a huge diappointment, half the fun of playing Resident Evil is the scare factor. I'll probably still end up buying it though.
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ethanw12  - 8 months 23 days ago 
I didn't read all of the comments so somebody might have already brought this up, but RE5 isn't the only one with the strange coop. Call of Duty World at War uses the same weird way of splitting the screen. It sucks because it makes your screen space even smaller than usual.
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mgake182  - 8 months 23 days ago 
the death sequences werent even that cool. re4 had like 1000 different brutal deaths so im not sure why they would ever downgrade the gore. w/e re4 is easily my favorite game so i hope this is at least almost that good if not slightly better.
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Synster  - 8 months 23 days ago 
So far, this Game has looked like a really Good Game to me, And although I'm a Resident Evil Noob ( Yeah. I'll admit it. I don't know Jack about Resident Evil. ), I know enough to fair well with the Story I think, Since I seemed to cope with MGS4 without playing any of those previous Series.
But.
The Gamebreaking deal for this game which -entirely- disappoints me is that it doesn't borrow the Moving-while-shooting mechanic. This game, Since it's more action-oriented, whether they knew it or not, would be -much- better with moving while shooting. Atleast with the Pistol. It's bloody annoying having to a run a good 50 yards, Quick turn, then shoot, and rinse and repeat. Tell me that isn't annoying.
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HungryBeaver  - 8 months 23 days ago 
Looks like a great game. Good review.
The zombies are called Majinji not Majini.
Just to let you know ;)
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Valntyne  - 8 months 23 days ago 
Nice review, i do have a bit of a problem with the "shoot but cant walk" thing but its minor, what i DO have a problem with, how the infected are called "Manjini" is it just me or its strangely similar to "Mangina" which its funny as Hell , well is it just me or somebody else has thought of it?
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MisterPants  - 8 months 23 days ago 
I was severely underwhelmed by the demo for this game. After playing RE4 until my controller literally broke, I can say I was expecting a NEW game, not Resident Evil 4: Escape 4 Africa. (I apologize if no one got the reference)
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samownzsnake  - 8 months 23 days ago 
nice avatar, noobmasteroftehworld. Dwights cool.
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samownzsnake  - 8 months 23 days ago 
oh, and, um, 'Dawgsfan117'? do me a favor and dont listen to the voices in your head telling you that a 360+PS3 makes you rich.
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shadowleon  - 8 months 23 days ago 
i herd this is supposed to a good game re4 was great so I'm planing on getting this one to
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Z-man427  - 8 months 23 days ago 
@ RonnyLive - the demo came out just a wee bit over a month ago
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nitrocole  - 8 months 23 days ago 
cant wait for this game!
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CrimsonGear80  - 8 months 23 days ago 
I'm pretty sure they added the online co-op for the merc mode in a patch that will be available on day one.
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Spybreak8  - 8 months 23 days ago 
I've never gotten into the RE games but I was hoping that this one would. You can really tell the Gears inspiration to the development of this game. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this game demoed on Xplay a while ago. I can't do co-op due to decent but not great internet (satellite) and I just hated the controls. Seems like this game doesn't know what it wants to be, a cross dresser? haha Sounds good for co-op and run and gu... ahh no that doesn't work. Great review guys and I think more review sites/mags should use the games comparison feature you use as well.
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Geminiman82  - 8 months 23 days ago 
Great review guys! It's nice to see that my likes and dislikes were not unfounded after playing the demo. A+ Gentlemen!
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Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5

Genre: Action
Release date: 13 Mar 2009
Published by: Capcom
Developed by: Capcom
Franchise: Resident Evil
Multiplayer Modes:
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2 player CO-OP
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