Resident Evil 5 demo now infects XBLM worldwide

I feel your pain. My box has just RROD last week. But the new box has been shipped and it's on it's way back to me. The first thing to do is download this demo.

Sounds like someone has never played a Resident Evil game before. I always considered the controls part of the challenge.

Can't wait to try this out!

I know what you mean just from playing 4. I couldn't get into it. It felt awkward.

But yeah. Left 4 Dead is a good choice. I love that game.

Sounds like someone has spent too much time playing FPSs and you've probably never have played a RE game. Quite a shame, the game is awesome.

Dralthi,

Why the hell should crappy control be a challenge?
I hated RE 4 control, couldn't play for more that 10 minutes. I thought maybe it was just the Duo Shock. I guess it's actually a design choice then.

Kind of. I won't argue that the controls feel awkward at first. But once you get into the game it feels right to me.

If you thought the controls in RE4 were terrible then you should give the previous titles a try! You'd probably throw your controller out the window. With today's control standards they would feel broken.

RE's control is not broken. Resident Evil is not a FPS and should not control like one. Aiming, reloading, and switching weapons are supposed to take time (as they do in reality) in order to increase the difficulty and 'survival horror' part of the game.

I didn't say the controls were broken. I said by today's standards the controls probably FEEL broken to most gamers. There's a lot of new gamers out there that never played the older games and aren't used to this control scheme.

I'm agreeing with you. I prefer the RE controls for a game like this. If it had FPS controls or controls like Gears of War this would be a completely different game.

My post was directed at driz but I'm glad we are in agreement Dralthi.

At first I found the controls very slugish and movie Chris was like moving a tank. The aiming isn't that great, very slow.

I am a huge resi fan and have had all the main games, and well on my third play through I found it much more enjoyable and the controls much more bareable, though moving Chris still felt like a mission in itself.

I look forward to the 13th march.

controls should never be a challenge.. your playing a highly trained operative, so it should feel like your a bad ass..
Capcom need to take some ideas off Dead Space..
you should be able to move slowly when aiming, (there may be it shows them in a trailer doing so..) there maybe an option buried in there to have aiming down your sights, rather than someone looking over your shoulder
melee for some reason takes 2 buttons.. okay it's for a knife, but where is the quick melee?.. a very disapointing stomp.. and I don't care how big & tough something it, an exploding barrel would do more damage than knock you over..

Dead Space & Gears may of took ideas from Resi 4, put they improved on the idea and made grest games.. Capcom have just made "Resi 4 in Africa" with a few gameplay improvments, but it feels like a few steps back, as if next gen never happened..

u suck, resident evil has the best controls, this is probably the first re game u have played, and left 4 dead isn't as proven as the re games so suck it up you loser

It might not be in the demo but, yes, they did say there's going to be an alternate control scheme that lets you run and gun.

usually companies are supposed to not make controls as complicated as fuck and it's people jobs to make sure they aren't and should be fired if they let something through like this with such shit controls

I think the problem was that you only played it for 20 minutes.

Are the first 20 minutes of any RE game really scary?

Not to my memory.

The first 20 minutes of RE4 were essentially reconnaissance. You don't really get to the awesome and terrifying stuff until later in the game.

Besides, if all of the good scares came out right at the beginning, the rest of the game wouldn't be very fun to play.

I thought the zombies in RE4 weren't anything like the rage zombies from 28 Days Later. They weren't running around all crazed. When they got close enough to you they run a little bit to build up some momentum for a lunge. You could easily run away from them to get some distance between the two.

Keep in mind, they aren't really zombies. They are infected with a virus. That's why this game should be called BioHazard like it is in Japan. I think Resident Evil is misleading to the story of this game.

The virus has been evolving over the course of the series. The T-virus wasn't even in RE4. That was Las Plagas.

I don't think you can call yourself a Resident Evil fanboy if you didn't even play 4 (20 minutes doesn't count).

Well, it's hard to play RE4 when they never made it for the Xbox or 360. . . You can get it on the damned Wii, but you can't get it to play on your 360?!!? What's that about?

Capcom needs to get their asses in gear and offer RE4 Xbox/360 in Marketplace before giving us a whole new game. If I'm not mistaken, RE5 would be the first RE game on an XBox system.

Yeah...RE5 is the first one on the 360. Damn I had a PS and PS2 and played all of the games on them. Then when Nintendo made that deal with Capcom to make RE games for the gamecube, I went out and bought one for those games. If you have never played the GC remake version of RE, then you should go out and buy a gamecube just for that and RE0 alone. Those were my 2 favorite games out of any of them. No, trust me, I like that they are being creative with the new "zombies" or infected people. I am just a big fan of the old ones. Hell all my favorite zombie movies were back in the day where zombies just moved slow. I love Left 4 Dead, and I know they are fast...but it is a different game with the FPS and it works great for it. I wasn't trying to start anything. I played RE4 for 20 or so minutes. I just hated that they changed the camera so you couldn't see as much as you could in the old games, and a few other small things. But I loved that zombies could actually find ways to get to you though. i.e. jumping up on roofs, chasing you out windows, etc. I may have played more than 20 minutes. All I know is I played through the first small village part where they finally go into the church when the bell rings, and that was all I played up to.

Genius.

Vidguy,

Im sorry but I do not buy your whole spell about "RE's control is not broken. Resident Evil is not a FPS and should not control like one. Aiming, reloading, and switching weapons are supposed to take time (as they do in reality) in order to increase the difficulty and 'survival horror' part of the game."
Im sorry but in reality, if there were zombies coming after you to tear you apart, you would unload your weapon as fast as possible against the swarm, quickly grab a new weapon, and get your ass out of there. The aiming, reloading, and switching weapons in this game is heavily flawed. This is the reason why I could never get into a RE game, and this is the reason why I wont be buying this one either. L4Dead, and several other zombie games have gotten it right, while this game makes you feel like you have motion sickness, and you took to many Dramamine.

It's not about what you WOULD do (being a commando, as I'm sure you think you are after reading Max Brooks' books)... It's about what you CAN do.

Zombies are not scary unless you're given some human limitations on your aiming/firing speed. RE has a formula to make it much more frightening to be surrounded by zombies, and it's much more realistic to have to carefully aim and shoot in RE games than it is in FPS games that make you a superhuman target-shooting god.

If you could easily kill all the attackers, you wouldn't have any tension. It would just be a run & gun game with some minor puzzles.

The whole point is that you're NOT a commando. You're just a dude.

"Zombies are not scary unless you're given some human limitations on your aiming/firing speed."

Bingo. A run-and-gun Resident Evil would be no more than another Doom.

ZeroCorpse took the words right out of my mouth

God you need to get out more, it's just a game, stop crying and play Left 4 Dead then, no one cares.

"access menus with no movement while a zombie is nawwing at your ass."

RE4 allowed you to do all of your weapon equipping and item use through a paused menu screen, but RE5 cannot do that because of the two player coop. Personally I have no problem with it and actually haven't had to go through the menu while fighting the infected.

I noticed I didn't mention this: you can assign weapons, healing items, etc to the D-pad buttons for quick access. That should alleviate some control concerns...

No it's not just you...