Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition Review.

Eurogamer Reviews Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition:

You might remember a game called Resident Evil 4. You might remember it because when it came out on the GameCube it was an instant action classic, reinvigorating the Resident Evil series and bringing it right up to date with a massive bang (and then a sort of slippery noise as an exploded head drenched the floor). Then, when it came out on the PlayStation 2 with extra content, it took one look at the law of diminishing returns and gave it a massive roundhouse kick to the head, to became even more of an action classic, full of moody camera-cuts, conspiracy-theory cultists, shambling, leprous villagers, and some of the most heart-stopping set-pieces and frantic firefights in videogame history.

[texism]

No way am I gonna believe this guy. I'll pick it up and play for myself. How could Capcom screw this one up?

[Marceles]

"Maybe this review is nothing more than the out-of-date opinions of a gaming dinosaur, out of touch with the general gamer. Maybe Wii's target audience will take to this like a duck to water, unburdened by hands that are semi-permanently contorted into a dual-stick controller grasp. Maybe it is, as many people are saying, the definitive version of the definitive game in Capcom's superb survival horror series. But they're not writing this review. I am, and in my opinion, bolting on an unwieldy Wii control scheme adds nothing to the game; it just makes it slightly worse"

I'll believe he's a gaming dinosaur, since I preordered it already...finally something else to play on the Wii other than zelda and super paper mario

[sonarus]

simple. The wii controler isnt built for games like this. Its built for games like wii play and wii sports. even nintendo recognizes this and thats why they arent pushing for motion controls on smash bros which is very smart on their part. It really isnt capcom's fault nor is it nintendo. If the game was built with ideas for the wii mote in mind then it probably would have turnd out better

[ITR]

Did you even read the blog post on Dojo?
He said he preferred the GC controller because of the huge rumble effect.

It gives you 4 control options. Most Wii games give you 2-4 control setups.

Go to any modern arcade and you will see IR games and motion control games.
Wii is using Arcade tech thats been around for yrs now.

[Shaka2K6]

Its such a high score for a game thats so old now its not worth it, but then again this is eurogamer they are big nintendo fanboys over there.

[Stray_Wulf]

Nintendo always makes bad quality systems (sorry Wii fanboys, but its true). They basically just redesigned the gamecube, and made the controller some gimicky idea that ended up going horribly wrong. I honestly don't see why people would buy this system when they could have a gamecube, PS2, or XBOX for a much lower price. It's basically the same system, except with horrible controls.

[ITR]

Wow so much hate.

I find it odd it got a 7 when most other reviews have been in the 8's and 9's.

What you call old has sold over 65k copies in Japan and probably will sell over a qtr million copies.

People gave Mario Party 8 bad reviews but according to NPD MP8 is the top selling game now overall in May 07'.
http://wii.ign.com/articles...

[Honeal2g]

this game is old why would anyone buy this game again seriously nintendo could have made the wii mote for gamecube in the form of an addon somehow but no one would buy it so they remade it and called it the Wii

[Charlie2688]

giving it 8s is sort of ok considering that the game is already getting kind of old and also considering its a last gen port aside from the controls that dont seem to be a perfect match, but 9s its just hyping the game for its name

but again this is Eurogamer Gears 8 and Resistance 7 remember?, I guess you have to add +1 to the Eurogamer score to get it more accurate :P

[progx]

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[Leon Kennedy]

For real - Famitsu and EGM gave it 9's, 10's and an 8. There are some mixed feelings about it, but time will tell the story. This review was even making the original game look bad. What a load.

[Diselage]

Well they are European, what do you expect.

[Logan]

res 4 should be better because of that dang remote right? it doesent seem that way. Sure nintendo has a different controller, and there is nothing wrong with that, but if they want to make games even better, (to make it more next genish) its good to show a game that can do more then what it would do for the ps2 or xbox, I'm not saying the Wii is failing, infact they can still be sucessful on how there doing right now, but why not pack a better punch in the systems hardware, imagine the wii as powerful as the ps3 or 360. Thats why im not buying the wii, because all it is is a gamecube with a different controller, its nothing super amazing, I would rather have something more up to date with our society, its basically like this, the Wii is like a new keyboard with the same type of computer it had 5 years ago, the ps3 is like having a super fast computer that can handle more power then it did 5 years ago with the same keyboard. I dunno, I'm to lazy to explain everything

The Wii sucks in my opinion, later everyone.

[texism]

It isn't considered next-gen. Nintendo itself basically said so. It's gamers that want to call it next-gen because the ps3 and 360 are the next-gens from their respective companies and Nintendo opted not to go the next-gen rout but gamers still labeled the Wii next-gen along with the other consoles.

Besides have you played resident evil 4 on the Wii? No.

Redsteel got horrible reviews but I picked it up anyways and Im glad I did because all it took was a little getting used to.

[cr33ping_death]

wow no wonder europe gets games late, if they rip apart games like this i say let the games be delayed over there.

[Marceles]

Gaming is just starting to suck these days, bad reviews, overhyped games, underrated games, rumors, the annoying fanboy word, haters (trolls another word i hate)...if a game is good it's good whether it's came out today or it's 10 years old

[Close_Second]

The Wii is aimed at the casual gamer. RE4 is not. If you are into RE4 chances are you already have it on your GameCube or PS2 and this release offers nothing substantial over those versions.

Nintendo must be trying to spur software sales for the Wii I guess.

[progx]

Everyone else loves it, im not gona miss out cuz some eurodouche didn't like it.

[ender_01]

Game comes out today. Other notable reviews so far (and all these loved the controls, saying they greatly enchanced the game):

Fatismu: 9.9.8.9
Game Informer: 9.5, 9.5
Gamespy: 5 out of 5 (editor's choice award)

That eurogamer site is complete crap, and the RE4:WE review is just agenda for Wii haters. The whole review reeks of factual inaccuracies such as the control scheme he describes is different from the one the game uses, and for all his complaining (which is fake) he doesn't even bother mentioning you have the choice of using normal controllers.

[Odiah]

Can't you guys just let this person have their opinion? I'm sure there are games out there which everyone else seems to like but you hate. For example, reviewers seem to like the Halo games but I don't. If I wrote reviews for the Halo games, they would probably be lower scored than most but that would just be my opinion, and everyone is entitled to theirs.

[texism]

wtf

[progx]

No, because hes a douche raggin on a good game he most likely sucks at lol.

[Komrad]

I'm still going to give it a go. That score is really strange for what was written.

[unsunghero28]

This guy directly contradicts reviews by IGN and Gamespot, who called the new control scheme "intuitive". Maybe his sensor bar is just not properly configured...