When Chris Redfield laced his boots to go search for the missing Bravo team nearly ten years ago, few could have imagined where he'd end up. With Umbrella's coffin nailed firmly shut, and Leon's battle against the Las Plagas resulting in a fairly successful conclusion, Chris' fourth outing sees him squaring off against a brand new virus deep within Africa. In an interview with Japanese mag Famitsu, Chief Producer Jun Takeuchi explained why the action's moved to a new continent. "We settled on the fact that we wanted to show the origins of the virus. So for the setting we thought, how about using the place where humankind was born?"
The key word here is 'virus'. Although the enemies may look like Ganados, there's no parasite to blame this time. Resident Evil 5 takes place in an anonymous country (naming it would only serve to exacerbate issues of racial controversy that arose from last year's extended trailer) somewhere along the Eritrean/Ethiopian/Kenyan line of active volcanoes.
Resident Evil 5 launched 15 years ago today - and it continues to stand as a stepping stone from the good to the bad.
One of my favourites because of the co-op. Then Resi 6 arrived and the series nosedived further.
I enjoyed the game co-oping with a friend I know the game in solo the AI can be an idiot but RE5 is way better then RE6. I played RE6 with a friend if it wasn't cheap when I got I would have avoided RE6.
5 was excellent, still play Mercs with my brother.
I would love a fully remastered RE:5, with some added, reworked content. The DLC for 5 was also excellent.
6 was awful.
I never understood why the game was misunderstood. It was a fantastic game at launch and is still fun today to play. It’s as action packed as Resident Evil 4 was, yet that’s regarded a masterpiece 🤷♂️
it was "misunderstood" because they introduced co-op into the franchise at a time when people loved to have fake rage about co-op. like, you could play the game as a solo experience, but people chose to have their bandwagon rage because it was cool at the time lol
Try to cope with your friend through terror with this list featuring the best horror Co-Op games you can play today.
An exploration of whether RE5 is truly the most logical next step for a remake, or whether there are others in line who deserve their day in the sun.
Remake of Resident evil outbreak as well as file 2. Same gameplay as the recent remakes. Choose what ever character you want to play as. With online co op.
Nope.
Rather remake other past Capcom & non-mainline RE games ... IF they have to continue churning out Remakes.
I'd rather want a new 3rd person RE spin-off
Dino Crisis and Onimusha Reboot
New IPs after Pragmata ships
Co-op , more open ended, the ability to duck and dive and playable
flashback sequences..2009 is the year of resident evil
Great, we finally get co-op but it is online... I hope they have a splitscreen set up as well...
The virus originated from volcanoes? Fair enough... Really looking forward to this though. It wont have the scare tactics of the first few Resi games, but it'll be a whole different kind of fear when they're swarming you from all sides and you're trapped. Roll on 2009.
I knew they'd implement it from the 1st time I played resident evil ZERO.
RE5+split screen coop. I would masturbate to this game.